Dear Heather:

To a Teacher

written by Leonard Cohen


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C...|....|....|....|   Hurt once and for all into silence. A long pain ending without a
C...|....|             song to prove it. Who could stand
F...|....|....|....|   beside you so close to Eden, when you glinted in every eye the held-high razor,
C...|....|....|....|   shivering every ram and son?
C...|....|....|....|   And now the silent loony bin, where the shadows live in the rafters like day-weary bats,
F...|....|....|....|   Until the turning mind, a radar signal, lures them to exaggerate
C...|....|G7...|....|  Mountain-size on the white stone wall your tiny limp.
C...|....|             How can I leave
F...|....|....|....|   you in such a house? Are there no more saints and wizards to praise their ways with pupils,
C...|....|....|....|   No more evil to stun with the slap of a wet red tongue?
G7...|....|....|....|  Did you confuse the Messiah in a mirror and rest because he had finally
C...|....|....|....|   come? Let me cry
F...|....|....|....|   Help beside you, Teacher. I have entered under this dark roof as fearlessly
C...|....|....|....|   as an honored son enters his father's house.
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