Happens to the Heart
By
Leonard Cohen
Album
Thanks for the Dance
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♪ I was always working steady ♪
♪ But I never called it art ♪
♪ I got my shit together ♪
♪ Meeting Christ
and reading Marx ♪
♪ It failed my little fire ♪
♪ But it spread
the dying spark ♪
♪ Go tell the young messiah ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ There's a mist
of summer kisses ♪
♪ Where I tried
to double-park ♪
♪ The rivalry was vicious ♪
♪ The women were in charge ♪
♪ It was nothing,
it was business ♪
♪ But it left an ugly mark ♪
♪ I've come here to revisit ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ I was selling holy trinkets ♪
♪ I was dressing kind of sharp ♪
♪ Had a pussy in the kitchen ♪
♪ And a panther in the yard ♪
♪ In the prison of the gifted ♪
♪ I was friendly
with the guards ♪
♪ So I never had to witness ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ I should have
seen it coming ♪
♪ After all,
I knew the chart ♪
♪ Just to look at her
was trouble ♪
♪ It was trouble
from the start ♪
♪ Sure we played
a stunning couple ♪
♪ But I never liked the part ♪
♪ It ain't pretty,
it ain't subtle ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ Now the angel's got a fiddle ♪
♪ The devil's got a harp ♪
♪ Every soul is like a minnow ♪
♪ Every mind is like a shark ♪
♪ Me, I've broken
every window ♪
♪ But the house,
the house is dark ♪
♪ I care but very little ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ Then I studied
with this beggar ♪
♪ He was filthy,
he was scarred ♪
♪ By the claws of many women ♪
♪ He had failed to disregard ♪
♪ No fable here,
no lesson ♪
♪ No singing meadowlark ♪
♪ Just a filthy
beggar guessing ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ I was always working steady ♪
♪ But I never called it art ♪
♪ It was just
some old convention ♪
♪ Like the horse
before the cart ♪
♪ I had no trouble betting ♪
♪ On the flood,
against the ark ♪
♪ You see, I knew
about the ending ♪
♪ What happens to the heart ♪
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♪ I was handy with a rifle ♪
♪ My father's .303 ♪
♪ I fought for something final ♪
♪ Not the right to disagree ♪
