Alexandra Leaving
Leonard Cohen

Suddenly the night has grown colder.

The God of love preparing to depart.

Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder,

They slip between the sentries of the heart.


Upheld by the simplicities of pleasure,

They gain the light, they formlessly entwine;

And radiant beyond your widest measure

They fall among the voices and the wine.


It's not a trick, your senses all deceiving,

A fitful dream, the morning will exhaust Ёc

Say goodbye to alexandra leaving.

Then say goodbye to alexandra lost.


Even though she sleeps upon your satin;

Even though she wakes you with a kiss.

Do not say the moment was imagined;

Do not stoop to strategies like this.


As someone long prepared for this to happen,

Go firmly to the window. Drink it in.

Exquisite music. Alexandra laughing.

Your firm commitments tangible again.


And you who had the honor of her evening,

And by the honor had your own restored Ёc

Say goodbye to alexandra leaving;

Alexandra leaving with her lord.


Even though she sleeps upon your satin;

Even though she wakes you with a kiss.

Do not say the moment was imagined;

Do not stoop to strategies like this.


As someone long prepared for the occasion;

In full command of every plan you wrecked Ёc

Do not choose a coward's explanation

That hides behind the cause and the effect.


And you who were bewildered by a meaning;

Whose code was broken, crucifix uncrossed Ёc

Say goodbye to alexandra leaving.

Then say goodbye to alexandra lost.


Say goodbye to alexandra leaving.

Then say goodbye to alexandra lost.


  Purchase "Alexandra Leaving"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "Alexandra Leaving" Video   Play Spotify "Alexandra Leaving" Song   View Wikipedia "Alexandra Leaving" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "Alexandra Leaving"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Leonard Cohen

  "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"   "So Long, Marianne"   A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes   A Bunch Of Lonesome Heros   A PARTISAN   A Singer Must Die   A Street   A Thousand Kisses Deep   Ain't No Cure For Love   Ain't No Cure For Love   Almost Like the Blues   Always   Amen   Angels Eyes   Anthem   Anyhow   Avalanche   Avalanche [Gothenburg Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sw...   Avalanche [Gothenburg Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sw...   Avalanche [Live]   Ballad Of The Absent Mare   Banjo   Be For Real   Be For Real   Be My Baby   Because Of   Bird On A Wire   Bird On The Wire   Bird on the Wire [Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, Scotl...   Bird On The Wire [Live]   Blessed Is The Memory   Blessed Is The Memory (Remastered) [Bonus Track]   Boogie Street   Born In Chains   Born to Lose   By The Rivers Dark   California   Came So Far For Beauty   Careless Love   Chelea Hotel No. 2   Chelsea Hotel   Chelsea Hotel (Live Nov 17, 2008; Royal Albert Hal...   Chelsea Hotel [Royal Albert Hall, London, England,...   Chelsea Hotel #2   CHELSEA HOTEL NO. 2   Chelsea Hotel No.2   Chelsea Hotel, No. 2   Choices - Live at Christchurch Soundcheck, 2013   Clap! Clap!   Closing Time   Closing Time [John Labbatt Centre, London, Ontario...   Cohen Talking About His Fedora & Performing On Sta...   Come Healing   Coming Back   Coming Back To You   Coming Back Toyou   Crazy To Love You   Dance Me To The End Of Love   Dance Me to the End of Love [Live]   Darkness   Dear Heather   Death Of A Ladies' Man   Death Of A Ladies' Man   Death Of A Lady's Man   Democracy   Diamonds In The Mine   Did I Ever Love You   Different Sides   Do I Have To Dance All Night   Don't Go Home With Your Hard   Don't Go Home With Your Hard - On   Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On   Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On   Downhearted Blues   Dress Rehearsal Rag   Dress Rehearsal Rag   Everybody Knows   Famous Blue Raincoat   Famous Blue Raincoat [Live]   Famous Blue Raincoat [O2 Arena, London, England, N...   Field Commander Cohen   Field Commander Cohen - Live at Denver Soundcheck,...   Fingerprints   Fire   First We Take Manhattan   First We Take Manhattan [Album Version]   First We Take Manhatten   Get It While You Can   Glimpse Into His Life In A Zen Monastery In Califo...   Gloomy Sunday   Go No More A-Roving   God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot   Going Home   Goodnight Irene   Got a Little Secret - Live at Auckland Soundcheck,...   Hallelujah   Hallelujah - Live in London   Hallelujah (Live)   Hallelujah (Original)   Hallelujah [Coachella Music Festival, Indio, Calif...   Hallelujah [from Watchmen]   Hallelujah [Live]   Heart With No Companion   Heart With No Companion [Live]   Heart with No Companion [Oberhausen King Pilsener ...   Here It Is   Hey, That's No Way To Say Good-bye   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbyen   Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye   Humbled In Love   Humbled In Love   Humbled in Love   Hunter's Lullaby   Hunter's Lullaby   I Am The Law! (the Future)   I Came So Far For Beauty   I Can't Forget   I Can't Forget - Live at Copenhagen Show, 2012   I Can't Forget   I Left A Woman Waiting   I Shall Be Released   I Tried To Leave You   I'm Your Man   I've Counted What I Have   I'm Your Man   I've Counted What I Have   If I Didn't Have Your Love   If It Be Your Will   Improvisation   In My Secret Life   Inducted Into The Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fam...   Intro To So Long, Marianne   Intro: Let's Renew Ourselves Now...   Introduction   Iodine   Is This What You Wanted   Is This What You Wanted?   It Seemed the Better Way   Jazz Police   Jezebel   Joan Of Arc   Joan of Arc - Live at Québec City Soundcheck, 201...   La Complainte Du Partisan (The Partisan)   La Manic   La Manic (Live at Québec City Show, 2012)   Lady Midnight   Last Year's Man   Last Year's Man   Leaving Green Sleeves   Leaving The Table   Light As A Breeze   Light As The Breeze   Light as the Breeze - Live at Dublin Show, 2012   Like a Bird (Bird on the Wire)   Love Calls You By Your Name   Love Itself   Lover Lover Lover   Lover, Lover, Lover [Live]   Lover, Lover, Lover [Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv, ...   Lover, Lover, Lover [Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv, ...   Lullaby   Master Song   Memories   Minute Prologue   Misty Blue   Misty Blue (outtake From Recent Songs)   Morning Glory   My Oh My   Nancy   Nancy (live)   Never Any Good   Never Any Good [#]   Never Gave Nobody Trouble   Never Gave Nobody Trouble - Live at Odense Soundch...   Nevermind   Night Comes On   Night Comes On - Live at Mönchengladbach Show, 20...   Nightingale   Not Known   Nothing to One (You Know Who I Am)   On That Day   On the Level   One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong   One Of Us Cannot By Wrong   Our Lady Of Solitude   Paper Thin Hotel   PAPER THIN MOTEL   Partisan   Passing Through   Passing Through (written By )   Please Don't Pass Me By   PLEASE DON'T PASS ME BY (A DISGRACE)   Please Don't Pass Me By (A Disgrace) [Live]   Please Don\u2019t Pass Me By (A Disgrace)   Please Don't Pass Me By (A Disgrace)   Priests   Queen Victoria   Range Of Subjects   Recitation   Recitation W/ N.L.   Red River Valley   Reflecting On His Songwriting   Rivers Of Dark   Samson In New Orleans   Save the Last Dance for Me   SEEMS SO LONG AGO, NANCY   Show Me The Place   Since You've Asked   Since You've Asked (Dialogue)   Since You've Asked (Dialogue)   Sing Another Song, Boys   Sisters Of Mercy   Slow   So Long Marianne   So Long, Marianne   Song Of Bernadette   Song Of Destruction   Song To My Assassin   Stages - Live at Sydney Show and Hamburg Soundchec...   Steer Your Way   Store Room   Storeroom   Stories Of The Street   Story Of Isaac   Stranger Song   String Reprise / Treaty   String Reprise\/ Treaty   Supermarket In California   Suzanne   Suzanne [DVD]   Suzanne [DVD]   Suzanne [Live]   Tacoma Trailer   Take This Longing   Take This Waltz   Teachers   Tennessee Waltz   Tennessee Waltz (Live)   Tennessee Waltz [Live]   Tennessee Waltz- Live   That Don't Make It Junk   That Don't Make It Junk [Live]   That Don't Make It Junk   The Bells   The Butcher   The Captain   The Captain   The Darkness   The Faith   The Favourite Game   The Future   The Great Event   The Great Pretender   The Guests   The Gypsy's Wife   The Gypsy's Wife   The Land Of Planty   The Land Of Plenty   The Law   The Letters   The Lost Canadian   The Lost Canadian (Un Canadien Errant)   The Marriage March   The Night Comes On   The Old Revolution   The Partisan   The Partisan [Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland, O...   The Partisan [Hartwall Arena, Helsinki, Finland, O...   The Promise   The Smokey Life   The Smokey Life   The Spice-Box of Earth   The Stranger Song   The Third Invention   The Throne Of Desire   The Traitor   The Walls   The Window   There For You   There Is A War   There's No Reason Why You Should Remember Me   They Locked Up A Man (Poem) / A Person Who Eats Me...   Throne Of Desire Variations   To A Teacher   To Love Somebody   To Love Somebody (The Bee Gees cover)   Tonight Will Be Fine   Tower Of Song   Traditional Demarcations Between Novelist, Poet & ...   Traveling Light   Treaty   True Love Leaves No Traces   Turn! Turn! Turn!   Un Canadien Errant (The Lost Canadian)   Unchained Melody   Undertow   Villanelle For Our Time   Waiting For The Miracle   Waiting for the Miracle [HP Pavilion, San Jose, Ca...   Waiting For The Miracle [Live]   Way Down Deep   We Told You So   What'd I Say   Which Side Are You On?   Whither Thou Goest   Whither Thou Goest (from The Book Of Ruth)   Who By Fire   Who By Fire?   Why Don't You Try   Why Don't You Try   Winter Lady   Wishing Window   Wither Thou Goest   Woke Up This Morning   You Got Me Singing   You Have Loved Enough   You Know Who I Am   You Want It Darker   Your Cheatin' Heart

Related Songs

  Alexandra - Hamilton Leithauser  Alexandra - Aventura  Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer - Monchy y Alexandra  Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer - Alexandra  Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer [Merengue]...  Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer [Balada]...  Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer - Monchy & Alexandra  Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer - Monchy & Alexandra  Million - Alexandra Stan  One Million - Alexandra Stan  Laura Jenna Ellinoora Alexandra Camilla Jurvanen...  O Alexandra - Said The Whale  More - Alexandra Burke  Alexandrie, Alexandra - Claude François  Alexandrie Alexandra - Indra  Alexandrie, Alexandra - Claude Francois  Hasta El Fin - Monchy & Alexandra  Ecoute - Alexandra Stan  No Te Prometo Que Si - Monchy & Alexandra  Esperando Estar Juntos - Monchy & Alexandra  Million - 1,000,000 - Alexandra Stan  Perdidos - Monchy y Alexandra  Perdidos - Monchy & Alexandra  Pourquoi - L5  Les Amazones - L5  Du Forsvinner - E.M.M.A.  Motive Feat. Alexandra Stan - Alexandra Stan  Baby, It’s Ok Feat. Alexandra Stan & Viper...  Discotheque 36 - Black Francis  Old School Aventura Medley: Alexandra/No Lo Perdon...  Let's Fall In Love (feat. Alexandra Badoi) [Alekse...  1 Million (feat. Carlprit) - Alexandra Stan  Oskyldig - E.M.M.A.  Discotheque 36 - Frank Black  Volveré - Monchy & Alexandra  Balans - Alexandra Stan  Tuggummi-Pop - E.M.M.A.  Baptism for Devlyn Alexandra - Acheron  A Tout Coeur - L5  En Equilibre - L5  The Umbrella - Rio En Medio  La Jungle - L5  Skit - L.L. Cool J  Skit - LL Cool J  Words - Human League  Sms - E.M.M.A.  En Hemlighet - E.M.M.A.  Balans Feat. Mohombi - Alexandra Stan  Alex - Punch Brothers  Aime - L5  Rogers Alexandra - Castevet  I Really Like You - The Lovely Feathers  Ching Chong (It Means I Love You) - Jimmy Wong  (ii) - Shura  Bad Boys - Alexandra Burke  Retiens-Moi - L5  Reste Encore - L5  Les 5 Branches D'une Etoile - L5  Este Castigo (Balada) - Monchy & Alexandra  Llorando Pena - Monchy & Alexandra  Hoja en Blanco - Alexandra  Toutes Les Femmes de Ta Vie - L5  1,000,000 - Carlprit  1,000,000 - Alexandra Stan  Demonstrate - RaNia  Panne Des Sens - L5  Impressed - K Tonio  Alexandra's end / outro - Agathocles  Queen Alexandra Road Is Where She Said She'd Be Bu...  Goodnight Good Morning - Alexandra Burke  Impressed - Charlie Sexton  Dingue - L5  Alexandra's end / outro - Agathocles  Leaving - El Caco  Leaving - Paul Brandt  Leaving - Second Rate  Leaving - Jester's March  Leaving - OK Sweetheart  Leaving - Safetysuit  Leaving - Hate Dept.  Leaving - Suede  Leaving [#] - Indigo Girls  Leaving - Sophie Zelmani  Leaving - Radio Racer  Leaving - Hate Dept  Leaving - Steve Hackett  Leaving - Lilium  Leaving - Crushed  Leaving - A Life Divided  Leaving - Venus  Leaving - No Fun At All  Leaving - Clark-Hutchinson  Leaving - Captives  Leaving - Hootie & The Blowfish  Leaving - Indigo Girls  Leaving - Olivia Newton-John  Leaving - Skrillex  Leaving - Kari Rueslatten  Leaving - Familiar 48  Leaving - L'âme Immortelle  Leaving - A Cursive Memory  Leaving - Pet Shop Boys  Leaving - Jesse McCartney  Leaving - Don Williams  Leaving - L'ame Immortelle  Leaving - H Blockx  Leaving - Hackett Steve  Leaving - Catch 22  Leaving - Clifford T. Ward  Leaving - A Life Divided  Leaving - Westlife  Leaving - All Left Out  Leaving - Paddy Casey  Leaving - L'Âme Immortelle  Leaving - L'Âme Immortelle  Leaving - Anne Clark  Leaving - Apparitions  Leaving - Ashanti  Leaving - Arcane Roots  Leaving - Hootie & The Blowfish  Leaving - Ja Rule  Leaving - Erben Der Schopfung  Leaving - Josh Ritter  Leaving - Corrinne May  Leaving - Starting Line  Leaving - Crush  Leaving - Junior Doctor  Signs on Sunday Evening - Reasons For Leaving  My Only True Definition of Loss...  Bed of Roses on Repeat - Reasons For Leaving  Wake Up, Pennsylvania - Reasons For Leaving  So, In Closing - Reasons For Leaving  Coffee Couches and Car Rides - Reasons For Leaving  There's So Many - Brian Wilson  Une Page De Ma Vie - L5  My Lamb Bhuna - Chris Moyles  Goodbye (feat Alexandra Badoi) - Andrew Rayel   We Wanna Feat. Daddy Yankee - Alexandra Stan  We Wanna - Alexandra Stan  We Wanna - Inna  Charlyn, Angel Of Kensington - Jason Collett  Pasión - Monchy & Alexandra  Te Chavirer - L5  Don't Rush Me - Taylor Dayne  Leaving You/Leaving You (Reprise) - David Wilcox  Leaving's Not Leaving - Leann Rimes  Leaving Time - Planet Earth  Leaving Now - I Object  Never Leaving - Son Of A Gun  Leaving Blues - Bombay Bicycle Club  We're Leaving - Devotchka  I'm leaving - Later Days  Leaving You - Son Of The Velvet Rat  I'm Leaving - The Grassroots Campaign  Leaving Verona - The Rookie Lot  Leaving Tomorrow - Ellison  Leaving Day - Cheap Suits  Leaving Smears - Band In Box  Leaving Hollywood - Diorama  Leaving America - Sputnik Monroe  Just Leaving - Diana Anaid  Leaving Rain - Violet Nine  Leaving Massachusetts - Greenwell  Leaving Idaho - David Berkeley  Leaving Songs - Midwest Pen Pals  Leaving Trains - The Uninvited  Leaving Time - Barzin  Leaving Behind - Red Wanting Blue  Leaving Here - Tinsley Ellis  Leaving London - Doc Watson  Leaving Samui - Milosh  On Leaving - Crucial Dudes  Leaving Home...  Leaving Solitude - Moonlight Agony  Leaving S.F. - Chris Flew  Leaving Train - Gillian Welch  Leaving Here - Eddie Holland  Leaving Home - T.Mills  Leaving Here - Motörhead  Leaving London - Tom Paxton  Leaving Song - Big Head Todd & the Monsters  Leaving Behind - Robert Miles  Leaving Trunk [*] - Taj Mahal  Leaving Port - James Horner  Leaving Here - The Sonics  Leaving Here - The Doc Thomas Group  Leaving Missouri - Ry Cooder  Leaving Here - The Rationals  Leaving Here - The Birds  Leaving Here - The Shambles  Leaving Here - Satelliters  Leaving Here - Lars Frederiksen  Leaving Here - Lickity Split  Leaving Scranton - Chris Michaud  Leaving It - Novi Split  Leaving Home - The Mountain Goats  Leaving Earth - Code 64  About Leaving - Yourcodenameis:milo