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Unread 10-31-2023, 07:08 AM
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It looks like he was sitting on the lyrics for at least thirty years before recording them. The album Various Positions, with Hallelujah, was recorded in 1984, around the same time the below lines appeared. Cohen would have been 51.

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(Wiesbaden 2nd, Birmingham 28th Feb & Dublin (1) 2nd March 1985)
I see you changed the water into wine
That was a very pretty trick to do
I sit at your table every night
Baby, I just can't get drunk with you
And there are no letters in the mailbox....
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(Basel 5th, Vienna 6th & 7th, Munich 9th, Boblington 10th March 1985)
I haven’t said a word since you’ve been gone
That any liar couldn’t say as well
I can’t believe the static coming on
You were my ground, you were my aerial
And there are no letters in the mail box....
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