Leonard Cohen - Avalanche

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

비님이 내리시면 내리신다고

눈님이 내리시면 또 내리신다고...

날씨에 의해서도 사람들은 가끔

좋아하던 음악을 떠올리곤 하죠.

 

 

물론 내 고향 부산은

쌓여서 눈싸움할 정도의 눈은

제 평생 두어 번 정도 내린 듯합니다.

 

 

오늘 아침엔 왠지

눈이 내릴 듯한 하늘이었어요.

물론, 완전히 제 느낌이었죠. ㅎㅎ

 

 

언니를 만나고 함께 걷고...

정말 좋았어요.

 

 

집에 와서 내일을 위해

빨래, 청소...

모든 집안일을 끝낸 후

문득 이 곡이 생각났답니다.

 

 

 

 

 

♬   Leonard Cohen-1971[Songs Of Love and Hate]-A01. Avalanche

 

 

 

▒   Avalanche

 

I stepped into an avalanche

It covered up my soul

When I am not this hunchback that you see

I sleep beneath the golden hill

You who wish to conquer pain

You must learn, learn to serve me well

 

You strike my side by accident

As you go down for your goal

The cripple here that you clothe and feed

Is neither starved nor cold

He does not ask for your company

Not at the center, the center of the world

 

And I am on a pedestal

You did not raise me there

Your laws do not compel me now

To kneel grotesque and bare

I myself am the pedestal

For this ugly hump at which you stare

 

You who wish to conquer pain

You must learn what makes me kind

The crumbs of love that you offer me

Are the crumbs I've left behind

Your pain is no credential here

It's just a shadow, shadow of my wound

 

I have begun to long for you

I who have no greed

I have begun to ask for you

I who have no need

You say you've gone away from me

But I can feel you, feel you when you breathe

 

Do not dress in those rags for me

I know you are not poor

And don't love me, quite so fiercely now

When you know that you are not sure

It is your turn, my beloved one

It is your flesh that I wear