The Guests

Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen: Recent Songs (1979)

	Em	D	C	D
	One by one,	the guests arrive,	the guests are coming	through.

	Em	D	C	E
	The open-hearted m	any,	the broken-hearted	few.

And those who dance, begin to dance, those who weep begin

And "welcome, welcome" cries a voice "let all my guests come in."

And all go stumbling through that house, in lonely secrecy

Saying "do reveal yourself", or "why has thou forsaken me? "

All at once, the torches flare, the inner door flies open

One by one, they enter there, in every style of passion

And here they take their sweet repast, while house and grounds dissolve

And one by one the guests are cast, beyond the garden wall

And those who dance, begin to dance, those who weep begin

Those who earnestly are lost, are lost and lost again

One by one, the guests arrive, the guests are coming through

The open-hearted many, the broken-hearted few