Dance Me to the End of Love

Eu tinha um livro muito bonito com a letra desta música de Leonard Cohen e imagens de Henri Matisse. Não sei onde foi parar, após várias mudanças. Bem, recrio aqui um pouco dele:

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love

 

Oh let me see your beauty 
    when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving 
    like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only 
    know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now dance me on and on

Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long

We're both of us beneath our love, 

we're both of us above  

   Dance me to the end of love   

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

 

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love

Clique abaixo para ouvir a canção na voz de Madeleine Peyroux:

Leonard Cohen, "Dance Me to the End of Love" ("Various Positions", Columbia Records, 1984);

Henri Matisse: 1 - "A Dança", óleo sobre tela, 260x391cm, 1910; 2, 3 - "Jazz", colagem com papel, 1947; 
4 - "A Conversação", óleo sobre tela, 177x217cm, 1909; 5 - "Nu Reclinado", lápis sobre papel, 1935.