When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to…

Leonard Cohen
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When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2010). Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, p.25, Random House
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We are ugly but we have the music. ✨ FaceBook post byLeonard Cohen from Jun 01, 2009
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love ✨ Song: Dance Me … ▶
First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again. ✨ Book of Longing. Book by Leonard Cohen, 2006.
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.14, Vintage

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2010). Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, p.25, Random House

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