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Light As The Breeze by Leonard Cohen





    Light As The Breeze 







Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
 
[Intro]
C G    x4
 
[Verse 1]
      C
She stands before you naked
        Dm
You can see it, you can taste it,
         G                          C
And she comes to you light as the breeze
              C
Now you can drink it or you can nurse it,
          Dm
It don't matter how you worship
    G                            C
As long as you're down on your knees
 
[Verse 2]
       C
So I knelt there at the delta,
       Dm
At the alpha and the omega,
         G                          C
At the cradle of the river and the seas
             C
And like a blessing come from heaven
     Dm
For something like a second
       G                         C
I was healed and my heart was at ease
 
[Chorus]
   E7
O baby I waited
    Am
So long for your kiss
     E7
For something to happen,
F                   C
Oh something like this
 
[Interlude]
Edim7 Fdim7 G#dim7 G
 
[Verse 3]
            C
And you're weak and you're harmless
             Dm
And you're sleeping in your harness
         G                       C
And the wind going wild in the trees
        C
And it ain't exactly prison
           Dm
But you'll never be forgiven
         G                         C
For whatever you've done with the keys
 
[Chorus]
   E7
O baby I waited
    Am
So long for your kiss
     E7
For something to happen,
F                   C
Oh something like this
 
[Interlude]
Edim7 Fdim7 G#dim7 G
 
[Verse 4]
      C
It's dark now and it's snowing
      Dm
O my love I must be going,
     G                     C
The river has started to freeze
         C
And I'm sick of pretending
     Dm
I'm broken from bending
      G                     C
I've lived too long on my knees
 
[Verse 5]
          C
Then she dances so graceful
          Dm
And your heart's hard and hateful
           G                       C
And she's naked but that's just a tease
         C
And you turn in disgust
           Dm
From your hatred and from your love
         G                          C
And she comes to you light as the breeze
 
[Chorus]
   E7
O baby I waited
    Am
So long for your kiss
     E7
For something to happen,
F                   C
Oh something like this
                Edim7 Fdim7 G#dim7 G
Something like this
 
[Verse 6]
          C
There's blood on every bracelet
         Dm
You can see it, you can taste it,
           G                           C
And it's please, baby, please, baby, please
         C
And she says, drink deeply, pilgrim
             Dm
But don't forget there's still a woman
   G                       C
Beneath this resplendent chemise
 
[Bridge]
       E7
So I knelt there at the delta,
       Am
At the alpha and the omega,
   E7                         F
I knelt there like one who believes
          C
And the blessings come from heaven
        Edim7 Fdim7      G#dim7
And for something like a second
     G
I'm cured and my heart is at ease
 
[Outro Solo]
C Dm G    x2
 
(Fade out)







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