Famous Blue Raincoat

by Leonard Cohen

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Big thanks to Yukon for filling in some gaps for me.
 
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It's four in the morning, the end of December
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I'm writing you now just to  see if you're better
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New York is cold, but  I like where I'm living
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There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.
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I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert 
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You're living for nothing now, 
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I hope you're keeping some kind of record.
 
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 Ye-s, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
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She said that you gave it to her
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That night that you planned to go clear
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Did you ever go clear? 
 
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The last time we saw you you looked so much older 
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Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder 
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You'd been to the station to meet every train 
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And you came home without Lili Marlene 
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And you treated my woman to  a flake of your life
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And when she came back she was nobody's wife. 
 
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Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth 
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One more thin gypsy thief 
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Well I see Jane's awake -- 
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She sends her regards.
 
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And what can I tell you my brother, my killer 
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What can I possibly say? 
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I  guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you 
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I'm glad you stood in my way.
 
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If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me 
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Well your  enemy   is sleeping, and his woman is free. 
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Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes 
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I thought it was there for good so I never tried.
 
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And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
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She said that you gave it to her
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That night that you planned to go clear -- 
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Sincerely, L. Cohen