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written by Leonard Cohen

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I stepped in to an avalanche
It covered up my soul
When I am not this hunchback that you see
I sleep beneath a golden hill

You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn to serve me well

You strike my side by accident
As you go down for the gold
This cripple that you cloth and feed
Is neither starved nor cold

He does not ask for your company
Not at the center of the world

When I'm on this pedestal
You did not place me there
Your laws do not compel me
To kneel grotesque and bare

I myself am the pedestal
For this ugly hump at which you stare

You who wish to conquer pain
You must learn what makes me kind
The crumbs of love you offer me
There the crumbs I've left behind

Your cross is no credential here
It's just the shadow of my wound

I have begun to long for you
I who have no need
I have begun to wait for you
I who have no greed

You say you've gone away from me
But I can feel you when you breathe

Please don't dress in those rages for me
You know you are not poor
And please don't love me quite so fiercely now
When you know you are not sure

This is your world beloved
This is your flesh that I wear

And I stepped into an avalanche

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from The New​/​Old CD, released October 12, 1998

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