Throne Of Desire Variations (Written By Cohen, Per Lyrics

                  Let me start with you Miss Shy
                  Bundled up in your mother's lie
                  Tip toe, tip toe
                  Hiding your silky pleasure
                  
                  Miss Shy come to me
                  Along the snowy paths of modesty
                  Tip toe, tip toe
                  Hiding your silky treasure
                  
                  Come to me with downcast eyes
                  Come to me and claim the prize
                  Of your outrageous pleasure
                  
                  How I like you Miss Shy
                  Bundled up in your mother's lie
                  Tip toe --
                  Claim your outrageous pleasure!
                  
                           o o o
                  
                  And you I want strong
                  With your hatred intact
                  With your father's pipe
                  And your brother's bat
                  And your quaint belief
                  In holy authority
                  
                  With your discipline
                  And your Darwin claws
                  And your legal eye
                  On the peacock's flaws
                  I see what fallen man
                  Was meant to be
                  
                  With your absolute
                  No man can refute
                  Your absolutely unique
                  Contempt for the weak
                  Down on our paws
                  There are no laws
                  Kiss me where I can not speak
                  
                  You I want strong
                  With your hatred intact
                  With your father's pipe
                  And your brother's bat
                  Now kiss me
                  Where I cannot speak!
                  
                           o o o 
                  
                  You I want for my friend
                  To gossip with me and drink tea
                  To walk down by the river's bend
                  You I want for my friend
                  
                  To watch the water going by
                  The swallows climbing above
                  To tell me that I lie
                  When I tell you I cannot love,
                    Cannot love
                  
                  To know my heart better than me
                  To be my friend in charity
                  To speak of lovers old and new
                  To say to me, what they've done to you
                  
                  You I want for my friend
                  To make some sense of our difference
                  To eat and drink together
                  To comfort one another,
                    And may our conversation never end!
                  
                           o o o
                  
                  And you
                      I want your
                           Beauty hidden
                  From all
                      Sight but my
                           Own
                  So none may know
                      your womanhood
                  Or hear you moan
                  Your pleasures
                      To an infant thumb
                  
                  You will be
                  True to me
                  There will be no
                  Infidelity
                  For I will weave
                  A cloak so tight
                  About your loveliness
                  No man will ever guess
                  The wild commands you whisper
                  From your childhood to the night
                  
                  And what
                      Drops the moon
                          About a man
                  And draws
                      Him tidal to
                          Your lips
                  And lets your nipples
                      harden I can
                  Hear you moan
                  Your pleasures
                      To an infant thumb
                  
                  And you I want
                  To wink at me
                  And you I want
                  To think of me
                  You I want above
                  I want you below
                  You I want veiled
                  And you to know
                  I want you clumbsy
                  I want you skilled
                  You be ferocious
                  You be mild...
                  
                  You be foolish
                  You be wise
                  You stay here
                  You stay outside
                  You comb out your hair
                  You keep it curled
                  I want, I want, I want
                  I want to know the world
                  You comb out your hair
                  You keep yours curled
                  I want, I want to know the world!
                  
                           o o o
                  
                  And you
                  Who did not come tonight
                  I will wait for you
                  And you
                  Who are not born
                  I will write for you
                  And you
                  Who must appear
                  In veils of chance
                  And mystery
                  I will kneel
                  I will kneel 
                  Like a child
                  Who's watching Mary
                  As she stands 
                  Upon the air
                  In gentle splendour
                  In the black
                  Mouth of a cave
                  Open-armed and radiant
                  To save mankind
                  And all the broken
                  World to mother
                  
                  And I swear
                  By the obscure
                  Truth
                  Of this
                  Enfolded heart
                  I swear
                  By
                  The unrequited greed
                  Of this
                  Human heart
                  And all
                  Its
                  Disappointed pleasures
                  I swear
                  By
                  The deep light
                  Of my soul
                  Stained
                  And covered over
                  With
                  Intrigues of pride
                  Whose mercy is
                  To let me sing
                  I swear
                  That I will be
                  For the one
                  Who will not come
                  To me
                  I swear that
                  I will be
                  Her lover
                  Her eternal
                  And imperfect
                  Spirit lover.