written by Leonard Cohen and Patrick Leonard
Db .... .... .... Gb .... Db .... Bbm Gb Db .... Ab Ab7 Db ....
Db
You said that you were with me, you said you were my friend
Gb Db
Did you really love the city or did you just pretend?
Bbm Gb Db
You said you loved her secrets and her freedoms hid away
Ab Ab7 Db
She was better than America, that's what I heard you say
You said how could this happen, you said how can this be The remnant all dishonored on the bridge of misery And we who cried for mercy from the bottom of the pit Was our prayer so damn unworthy the Son rejected it?
F7 Bbm Gb Db
So gather up the killers, get everyone in town
F7 Bbm Gb Db
Stand me by those pillars, let me take this temple down
F7 Bbm Gb Db
The king so kind and solemn he wears a bloody crown
F7 Bbm Ab Db
So stand me by that column, let me take this temple down
(instrumental verse, same as intro)
You said how could this happen, you said how can this be The chains are gone from heaven, the storms are wild and free There's other ways to answer, that certainly is true Me, I'm blind with death and anger and that's no place for you
There's a woman in the window, there's a bed in tinsel town
I'll write you when it's over, let me take this temple down
You said you loved her secrets, her freedoms hid away
She was better than America, that's what I heard you say
(instrumental verse, same as intro)