LEONARD COHEN – Is This What You Wanted (1974)

New Skin for the Old Ceremony, released in 1974, is the fourth studio album by Leonard Cohen. On this album, he begins to evolve away from the rawer sound of his earlier albums, with violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars, percussion and other instruments giving the album a more orchestrated (but nevertheless spare) sound. A remastered CD was released in 1995, and in 2009 it was included in Hallelujah – The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection, an 8-CD box set issued by Sony Music in the Netherlands.

You were the promise at dawn I was the morning after You were Jesus Christ, my Lord I was the money lender

You were the sensuous woman I was the very reverend Freud You were the manual orgasm I was the dirty little boy

And is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me? Is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me?

You were Marlon Brando I was Steve Mcqueen You were K.Y. Jelly I was vaseline

You were the father of modern medicine I was Mr. Clean You where the whore and the beast of Babylon I was Rin Tin Tin

And is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me? Yeah, is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me?

You got old and wrinkled I stayed 17 You lusted after so many, baby I lay here with one

You defined your solitude I came through alone You said that you could never love me I undid your gown

And is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me? Yeah, is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me?

Oh, is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me? Yeah, is this what you wanted To live in a house that is haunted By the ghost of you and me?

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