Leonard Cohen — Stages

Thank you for your generosity This is a gesture of compassion to the elderly You know, I was talking with some of the guys Some of the guys in this band are kind of You know over the hill And they were talking about the Various stages that a man goes through In relation to his allure to the opposite sex It was not a scientific evaluation Just something that arose over a cup of coffee It went something like this: You start off irresistible And, then you become resistible And then you become transparent Not exactly invisible, but as if you are seen Through old plastic And then you actually do become invisible And then, and this is the most amazing transformation You become repulsive But that’s not, that’s not the end of the story After repulsive, you become a cute And that’s where I am Yeah, my friends have gone and my hair is grey And I ache in the places where I used to play And I'm crazy for love, but I'm not coming on I'm just paying my rent every day In the Tower of Song I'm just paying my rent every day In the Tower of Song Now, I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Oh, Hank Williams he hasn't answered yet Oh, but I hear him coughing all, all night long Yeah, a hundred floors above me In the Tower of Song