Is This What You Wanted – English Lyrics

• By: Leonard Cohen
• Album: New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

You were the promise at dawn

I was the morning after

You were Jesus Christ, my Lord

I was the money lender

You were the sensitive woman

I was the very reverend Freud

You were the manual orgasm

I was the dirty little boy

And is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

Is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

You were Marlon Brando

I was Steve McQueen

You were K.Y. Jelly

I was Vaseline

You were the father of modern medicine

I was Mr. Clean

You were the whore and the beast of Babylon

I was Rin Tin Tin

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And is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

And is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

You got old and wrinkled

I stayed seventeen

You lusted after so many

I laid here with one

You defied your solitude

I came through alone

You said you could never love me

I undid your gown

And is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

And is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

I mean is this what you wanted

To live in a house that is haunted (haunted)

By the ghost of you and me?

That's right, is this what you wanted?

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