Текст (слова) песни: Leonard Cohen - The Old Revolution
I finally broke into the prison, I found my place in the chain. Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows, all the brave young men they`re waiting now to see a signal which some killer will be lighting for pay. Into this furnace I ask you now to venture, you whom I cannot betray.
I fought in the old revolution on the side of the ghost and the King. Of course I was very young and I thought that we were winning; I can`t pretend I still feel very much like singing as they carry the bodies away.
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture...
Lately you`ve started to stutter as though you had nothing to say. To all of my architects let me be traitor. Now let me say I myself gave the order to sleep and to search and to destroy.
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture...
Yes, you who are broken by power, you who are absent all day, you who are kings for the sake of your children`s story, the hand of your beggar is burdened down with money, the hand of your lover is clay.
Into this furnace I ask you now to venture...
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