You Want It Darker
Leonard Cohen
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Em Em Em Em [Verse]Em If you are the dealer, I'm out of the gameG If you are the healer, it means I'mAm broken and lameEm If thine is the glory then mine must be the shameG You want it darkerAmEm We kill the flameG AmEm G Am [Pre-Chorus]Em Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy nameG Vilified, crucified, in the humanAm frameEm A million candles burning for the help that never cameG You want it darkerAm [Chorus]C G D OOO Hineni, hineniEm G I'm ready, my lordAmEm G Am [Verse]Em There's a lover in the storyEm But the story's still the sameContinues after the adEm There's a lullaby for sufferingG Am And a paradox to blameEm But it's written in the scriptures And it's not some idle claimG Am You want it darkerEm G Am We kill the flameEm G Am [Verse]Em They're lining up the prisonersEm And the guards are taking aimEm I struggled with some demonsG Am They were middle class and tameEm I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maimG You want it darkerAm [Chorus]C G D OOO Hineni, hineniEm G I'm ready, my lordAmEm G AmEm G AmEm G Am [Post-Chorus]Em Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy nameG Vilified, crucified, in the humanAm frameEm A million candles burning for the love that never cameG You want it darkerAmEm G We kill the flameAmEm G Am [Verse]Em If you are the dealer, let me out of the game If you are the healer, I'm brokenG Am and lameEm If thine is the glory then mine must be the shameG You want it darkerAm [Chorus]C G D OOO Hineni, hineniC G D OOO Hineni, hineniEm G I'm ready, my lordAmEm G Am Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo ooEm G Am ah hi ne ni hi nen iEm G Am Oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo ooEm G Am ah hi ne ni hi nen i