Stories Of The Street

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TITLE: Stories of the Street
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
ALBUM: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Am
Intro:
Am C Em7 Bm
The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh
Am C Em7 Bm
The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas
Am F G F# B
And I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose
E A E D A Am
Yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose
Am C Em7 Bm
I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come
Am C Em Bm
The cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone
Am F G F# B
But let me ask you one more time, o children of the dusk
E A E D A Am
All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?
Am C Em7 Bm
And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?
Am C Em7 Bm
Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?
Am F G F# B
O lady with your legs so fine, o stranger at your wheel
E A E D A Am
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal
Am C Em7 Bm
The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask
Am C Em7 Bm
The nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass
Am F G F# B
And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite
E A E D A Am
And one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night
Am C Em7 Bm
O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
Am C Em7 Bm
And grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm
Am F G F# B
And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am
E A E D A Am
O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb
Am C Em7 Bm
With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
Am C Em7 Bm
I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world
Am F G F# B
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky
E A E D A Am
And lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye

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TITLE: Stories of the Street
ARTIST: Leonard Cohen
ALBUM: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Intro: Am

Stories Of The Street Chords by Leonard Cohen

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