THE FLOOD


The flood it is gathering

Soon it will move

Across every shoreline

Against every roof

The body will drown

And the soul will shake loose

I write all this down

But I don’t have the proof


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Israel 1973





Copyright © 1973, 2001 Leonard Cohen.
Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.




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