written by Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard
F Bbm F
O gather up the brokenness
Bb F
Bring it to me now
C F/c C
The fragrance of those promises
Bb C
You never dared to vow
Dm Bb
The splinters that you carry
F C
The cross you left behind
Gm /a Bb
Come healing of the body
C /e F
Come healing of the mind
Gm F/a
And let the heavens hear it
C F/c C
The penitential hymn
Gm /a Bb
Come healing of the spirit
C (/e) F
Come healing of the limb
Behold the gates of mercy
in arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
the cruelty or the grace
O solitude of longing
where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
O see the darkness healing
that tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart
(next two verses follow the same chord progression
as the first two verses, no third verse chord
progression here)
Oh troubled dust concealing
an undivided love
The Heart beneath is teaching to
the broken Heart above
Let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim
Come healing of the Altar
Come healing of the Name
(next three verses follow (almost) the same chord
progression as the first three verses)
O longing of the branches
to lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
to purify the blood
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
O let the heavens hear it
C F/c Edim
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb