Humbled In Love
Leonard Cohen Key
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Intro
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Verse 1
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Do you remember all of those pledges
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That we pledged in the passionate night
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Ah they're soiled now, they're torn at the edges
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Like moths on a stale yellow light
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No penance serves to renew them
G G#dim Am G#m Am
No massive transfusions of trust
C G F# G
Why not even revenge can undo them
Cm G
So twisted these vows and so crushed
Chorus
G Bb
And you say you've been humbled in love
F
Cut down in your love
Bb F
Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
Bb F
Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
Am Fmaj7 E
Who kneels there as deeply as thee
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Verse 2
G G#dim Am G#m Am
Children have taken these pledges
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They have ferried them out of the past
C G F# G
Oh beyond all the graves and the hedges
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Where love must go hiding at last
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And here where there is no description
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Oh here in the moment at hand
C G F# G
No sinner need rise up forgiven
Cm G
No victim need limp to the stand
Chorus
G Bb
And you say you've been humbled in love
F
Cut down in your love
Bb F
Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
Bb F
Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
Am Fmaj7 E
Who kneels there as deeply as thee
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Verse 3
G G#dim Am G#m Am
And look dear heart, look at the virgin
G G#dim Am G#m Am
Look how she welcomes him into her gown
C G F# G
Yes, and mark how the stranger's cold armour
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Dissolves like a star falling down
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Why trade this vision for desire
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When you may have them both
C G F# G
You will never see a man this naked
Cm G
I will never hold a woman this close
Chorus
G Bb
And you say you've been humbled in love
F
Cut down in your love
Bb F
Forced to kneel in the mud next to me
Bb F
Ah but why so bitterly turn from the one
Am Fmaj7 E
Who kneels there as deeply as thee
Outro
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