Passing Through
Dick Blakeslee / Leonard Cohen: Live Songs (1972)
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I saw | Jesus on the cross on a | hill called Calva | ry: |
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"Do you hate mankind for what they done to | you?" |
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He said, " | Talk of love, not hate, things to | do - it's getting | late. |
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I've so little time and I'm | only passing | through." |
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| Passing through, passing through. |
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Sometimes happy, sometimes | blue, glad that | I ran into | you. |
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Tell the people that you | saw me passing | through. |
I saw Adam leave the Garden with an apple in his hand, | |
I said "Now you're out, what are you going to do?" | |
"Plant some crops and pray for rain, maybe raise a little cane. | |
I'm an orphan now, and I'm only passing through." | |
Passing through, passing through... | |
I was with Washington at Valley Ford, shivering in the snow. | |
I said, "How come the men here suffer like they do?" | |
"Men will suffer, men will fight, even die for what is right; | |
even though they know they're only passing through." | |
Passing through, passing through... | |
I was with Franklin Roosevelt's side on the night before he died. | |
He said, "One world must come out of World War Two" (ah, the fool) | |
"Yankee, Russian, white or tan," he said, "A man is still a man. | |
We're all on one road, we're only passing through." | |
Passing through, passing through... | |
I rode with old Abe Lincoln on that train to Gettysburg, | |
I said: “What are we gonna do?” | |
He said: “All men must be unconditonally free | |
Or there is no reason to be passing through.” | |
Passing through, passing through... | |
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