For you, my friend: SISTERS OF MERCY I need all the love I can get

[Lil Missy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF2wH9XVkv4

Some people get by
with a little understanding
some people get by
with a whole lot more
I don't know
why you gotta be so undemanding
one thing I know
I want more
I want more

(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

D'you get scared to feel so much?
to let somebody touch you?
so hot, so cold, so far so out of control
hard to come by, and harder to hold

Some people get by
with a little understanding
some people get by
with a whole lot more
I don't know
why you gotta be so undemanding
I want more
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

There are parts of me that don't get nervous
not the parts that shake
you won't get what you deserve
you are what you take
learning to cry for fun and profit
I'm not done yet
counterfeit dollars or the English zloty
anything I can get

Some people get by
with a little understanding
some people get by
with a whole lot more
I don't know
why you gotta be so undemanding
one thing I know
I want more

(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)
(and I need all the love I can get)
(and I need all the love that I can't get to)

All the love that you can get
all the love
that I can't get to

[susanna]

1. I LOVE the Sisters.

My favorite album is First and Last and Always. I also adore 1959 from Floodland. Saw them two years ago; was transported. Fantastic.

So, I'm with you, Lil Missy! Gonna fire up the iPod and some SoM. :-)

[Lil Missy]

2. I just listened to the whole song. Little too much noise for me. I'm boring like that.

[Lil Missy]

3. kick, just for you

:)

[Heidi]

4. Here's something similar just for you, sweets,

because you're a light. Second verse is exquisite. :hug:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBFQg7P5YKw

Sisters of Mercy
By Leonard Cohen

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song.
Oh I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long.

Yes you who must leave everything that you cannot control.
It begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

Well they lay down beside me, I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right,
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.

[Lil Missy]

5. You know me all too well Heidi. All too well.

:hug:

[Lyric]

6. I effing LOVE the Sisters.

Here's one of my favorites:

Ribbons

I'm lying on my back now
The stars look all too near
Flowers on the razor wire
I know you're here

We are few
And far between
I was thinking about her...skin

Love is a many-splintered thing
Don't be afraid now
Just walk on in

(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)

Here eyes were cobalt red
Her voice was cobalt blue
I see no purple light
Crashing out of you
So just walk on in

(Flowers on the razor wire)
(Walk on in)

Her lovers queued up in the hallway
I heard them scratching on the door
I tried to tell her
About Marx and Engels, God and Angels
I don't really know what for
But she looked good in ribbons

So just walk on in
She looked good in ribbons
So just walk on in

Tie a red red red red red red ribbon
Love is a many-splintered thing
Tie a red red red red ribbon
Don't be afraid
Just walk on in

Just walk on in
(Incoming!)
(Incoming!)
Just walk on in
Just walk on in
Flowers on the razor wire
Just walk on in…