Felicity Harley
1 min readAug 31, 2023

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You will enjoy this from Leonard Cohen - The future...

Give me back my broken night

My mirrored room, my secret life

It's lonely here

There's no one left to torture

Give me absolute control

Over every living soul

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold

And it's overturned

The order of the soul

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)I wonder what they meantWhen they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)I wonder what they meantWhen they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)I wonder what they meant

Things are going to slide

Slide in all directions

Won't be nothing (won't be)

Nothing you can measure anymore

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold

And it's overturned

The order of the soul

There'll be the breaking of the ancient Western code

Your private life will suddenly explode (ooh, ooh)

There'll be phantoms

There'll be fires on the road

And the white man dancing

You'll see a woman

Hanging upside down (ooh, ooh)

Her features covered by her fallen gown (ooh, ooh)

And all the lousy little poets

Coming round

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7NSJVGGKXA

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Felicity Harley
Felicity Harley

Written by Felicity Harley

writer. student of the human condition & psyche. grounded by family, garden and good wine.

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