All fingers and thumbs

Show me The Place

"Barrel of Monkeys"  [E]

Day 7



Leonard Cohen with Show Me the Place, 2012
on the album Old Ideas, 2012

It hit me hard last night. Hurricane Helene hit Florida in the US and a few WdC writers were caught in the middle. This song kinda reminded me of disaster and mayhem and suffering.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten, I don't know
Show me the place, for my head is bendin' low
Show me the place where you want your slave to go

[Verse 2]
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began

[Bridge]
The troubles came, I saved what I could save
A thread of light, a particle, a wave
But there were chains, so I hastened to behave
There were chains, so I loved you like a slave

[Verse 1]
Show me the place where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten, I don't know
Show me the place, for my head is bendin' low
Show me the place where you want your slave to go

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
The troubles came, I saved what I could save
A thread of light, a particle, a wave
But there were chains, so I hastened to behave
There were chains, so I loved you like a slave

[Verse 3]
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place
Mmm, mmm

[Verse 2]
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began