Villanelle for Our Time Leonard Cohen
From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part
This is the faith from which we start:
Am7 Men shall know commonwealth again from bitter searching of the heart We loved the easy and the
Fmaj7 smart, but now, with keener hand and brain, we rise
Cmaj7 to play a greater part The lesser loyalties depart, and neither race nor
Fmaj7 creed remain from bitter searching of the heart Not steering by the
Am7 venal chart that tricked the mass for private gain, we rise
Fmaj7 to play a greater part Reshaping narrow law and art whose symbols
Cmaj7 are the millions slain, from bitter searching of the heart we rise to play
Fmaj7 a greater part
[Am7]
[Fmaj7]
[Am7]Fmaj7 This is the faith from which we start: Men shall
Cmaj7 know commonwealth again from bitter
G Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part
Fmaj7 The lesser loyalties depart, and neither
Am7 race nor creed remain from bitter
Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part Reshaping
Fmaj7 narrow law and art whose symbols are the millions
Cmaj7 slain, from
G Fmaj7 bitter searching of the heart we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part This is the
Fmaj7 faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth
Cmaj7 again from bitter
G Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part
[Fmaj7]
[Fmaj7]
[Am7]
[Fmaj7]
[Fmaj7]
[Cmaj7]
[Em7]
[Em7/B]Am7 This is the
Fmaj7 faith from which we start: Men shall know commonwealth
Cmaj7 again from bitter
G Fmaj7 searching of the heart we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part Not steering
Fmaj7 by the venal chart that tricked the mass for private
Cmaj7 private gain, we rise,
G Fmaj7 we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part Reshaping narrow
Fmaj7 law and art whose symbols are the millions
Cmaj7 slain, from
G Fmaj7 bitter searching of the heart we rise to play a
Cmaj7 greater part
[Fmaj7]
[Fmaj7]
[Fmaj7]
[Cmaj7]
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