• Leonard Cohen

    Heart with No Companion • Various Positions (1984)2 translations

Favorites
Share
Font Size
Original lyrics
2 translations

Heart with No Companion lyrics

Now I greet you from the other side
Of sorrow and despair
With a love so vast and shattered
It will reach you everywhere
 
And I sing this for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion
Her cradle still unfilled
 
For the heart with no companion
For the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina
Who cannot dance to anything
 
Through the days of shame that are coming
Through the nights of wild distress
Though your promise count for nothing
You must keep it nonetheless
 
You must keep it for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion
Her cradle still unfilled
 
For the heart with no companion
For the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina
Who cannot dance to anything
 
And I greet you from the other side
Of sorrow and despair
With a love so vast and shattered
It will reach you everywhere
 

 

Translations of "Heart with No ..."
Comments