Leonard Cohen – Guerrero lyrics

extremely uncertain transcription

The lady sounded ghostly in Gerrero,
When I was runnin' smoke across the lines [lights?]
She let me love her till I was a failure.
Her beauty on my bruise like iodine.

When I was weak enough to learn her methods,
I said "will I be punished for my crime?"
She said "there is a table set in heaven,
But I don't like to eat there all the time."

She pulled away the mask
Of the madonna,
She pulled away the mask (tear)
Of her thighs.

She couldn't find herself. [?]
And never will
Until I should be screwin her last disguise.

And I was with her when there was no ocean.
Oh when there was no rules to spill the tides.
It only took of the wild imagination
To lay us in Guerrero side by side

She pulled away the mask
Of her madonna
She pulled away the mask (tear)
Of her thighs.

She couldn't find herself,
And never will,
Untill I should exhaust her last disguise.

And I was with her when there was no ocean.
When there was no blues to spill the tides.
Well long before the wild imagination,
To lay us in Guerrero side by side.

To lay us in Guerrero side by side.