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Leonard Cohen – Intro to Poems (Live at the Isle of Wight) (2009) | Track profile | Dork

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Intro to Poems (Live at the Isle of Wight)

Release date: 20th October 2009

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"Intro to Poems (Live at the Isle of Wight)" is a track by Leonard Cohen, from the album Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 , released 20th October 2009. Full lyrics are available below.

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Intro to Poems (Live at the Isle of Wight)

As I laid dead

In my love-soaked bed

Angels came to kiss my head

I caught one gown

And wrestled her down

To be my girl in death town

She will not fly

She is promised to die

Oh what a clever corpse am I

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From Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

2009

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Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

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2009

—Introduction (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Bird on the Wire (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Lady Midnight (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—The Stranger Song (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Let's Renew Ourselves Now (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Suzanne (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Diamonds in the Mine (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Famous Blue Raincoat (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Intro to Poems (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—Intro to So Long, Marianne (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—So Long, Marianne (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—The Partisan (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—They Locked Up a Man (poem) / A Person Who Eats Meat / Intro (Live at the Isle of Wight)
—You Know Who I Am (Live at the Isle of Wight)

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