The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings

by Leonard Cohen

I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is When he shoves your ass off the stage I am the real Kanye West I don’t get around much anymore I never have I only come alive after a war And we have not had it yet

the boredom of God is heartbreaking fiddle fiddle fiddle

your bold plans to rearrange the middle east to overthrow the dollar to establish the 4th Reich to live forever to silence the Jews to order the cosmos to tidy up your life to improve religion they count for nothing you have no understanding of the consequences of what you do oh and one more thing you aren’t going to like what comes after America

WHAT I DO It’s not that I like to live in a hotel in a place like India and write about G-d and run after women It seems to be what I do

And that was my mistake I didn’t kill the snake I gave the snake a break Unbiblical

MY CAREER So little to say So urgent to say it

i’m a law and order man never gave nobody trouble i’m a law and order man never gave nobody trouble but you know damn well I can