First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - You Want It Darker Lyrics

First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist Lyrics

"You Want It Darker"
(originally by Leonard Cohen)

If you are the dealer
I'm out of the game
If you are the healer
It means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then
Mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified
Be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker

Oh
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord

There's a lover in the story
But the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering
And a paradox to blame
But it's written in the scriptures
And it's not some idle claim
You want it darker
We kill the flame

They're lining up the prisoners
And the guards are taking aim
I struggled with some demons
They were middle-class and tame
I didn't know I had permission
To murder and to maim
You want it darker

Oh
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord

Magnified, sanctified
Be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the love that never came
You want it darker
We kill the flame

If you are the dealer
Let me out of the game
If you are the healer
I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory
Mine must be the shame
You want it darker

Oh
Hineni, hineni
Oh
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord

Hineni
Hineni, hineni
Hineni

Hineni
Hineni, hineni
Hineni

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Writer(s): Patrick Raymond Leonard, Leonard Cohen

live album: "Who By Fire (Live Tribute To Leonard Cohen)" (2021)

First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist - Who By Fire (Live Tribute To Leonard Cohen) live album cover

Tired

Suzanne

Sisters Of Mercy

Who By Fire / As The Mist Leaves No Scar

Famous Blue Raincoat / Anthem

Who By Fire (Reprise) / Letter To Marianne

So Long, Marianne

You'd Sing Too

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First Aid Kit, Nina Zanjani & Maia Hansson-Bergqvist Lyrics