To A Teacher Lyrics

The song To A Teacher is performed by Leonard Cohen in the album named Dear Heather in the year 2004 .



[Dedicated to A. M. Klein (1909-1972)]

Hurt once and for all into silence.
A long pain ending without a song to prove it.
Who could stand beside you so close to Eden,
When you glinted in every eye the held-high
razor, shivering every ram and son?
And now the silent loony bin, where
The shadows live in the rafters like
Day-weary bats,
Until the turning mind, a radar signal,
lures them to exaggerate
Mountain-size on the white stone wall
Your tiny limp.
How can I leave you in such a house?
Are there no more saints and wizards
to praise their ways with pupils,
No more evil to stun with the slap
of a wet red tongue?
Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror
and rest because he had finally come?
Let me cry Help beside you, Teacher.
I have entered under this dark roof
As fearlessly as an honoured son
Enters his father's house.



Leonard Cohen - Dear Heather

Oct 2004

  1. Go No More A-Roving
  2. Because Of
  3. The Letters
  4. Undertow
  5. Morning Glory
  6. On That Day
  7. Villanelle For Our Time
  8. There For You
  9. Dear Heather
  10. Nightingale
  11. To A Teacher
  12. The Faith
  13. Tennessee Waltz- Live

To A Teacher