Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen (Ft. Jennifer Warnes)
Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen (Ft. Jennifer Warnes)

Take This Waltz

Leonard Cohen & Jennifer Warnes * Track #5 On I’m Your Man

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Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen (Ft. Jennifer Warnes)

Release Date
Tue Feb 02 1988
Performed by
Leonard CohenJennifer Warnes
Produced by
Roscoe Beck
Writed by
Leonard Cohen & Federico García Lorca
About

Leonard Cohen’s 1986 song, based on his own translation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Pequeño Vals Vienés” (literally “Little Viennese Waltz”), was part of a collection of Lorca’s poems performed by a variety of artists, in an album called Poetas en Nueva York. It was issued to commemorate the 50 year...

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Take This Waltz Lyrics

Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on it's jaws

Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallway where love's never been
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With it's very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging it's tail in the sea

There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it's been dying for years

There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist

Oh my love, Oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now. It's all that there is

{Instrumental}

(Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay)

Take This Waltz Q&A

Who wrote Take This Waltz's ?

Take This Waltz was written by Leonard Cohen & Federico García Lorca.

Who produced Take This Waltz's ?

Take This Waltz was produced by Roscoe Beck.

When did Leonard Cohen release Take This Waltz?

Leonard Cohen released Take This Waltz on Tue Feb 02 1988.

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