Waiting For The Miracle [written with Sharon Robinson] The Future -- 1992 I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away. There were lots of invitations and I know you sent me some but I was waiting for the miracle to come. I know you really loved me but, you see, my hands were tied. I know it must have hurt you, it must have hurt your pride to stand beneath my window with your bugle and your drum while I was waiting for the miracle to come. So, you wouldn't like it, baby. You wouldn't like it here. There's not much entertainment and the judgements are severe. The maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubblegum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. Waiting for the miracle there's nothing left to do. I haven't been this happy since the end of World War II. Nothing left to do when you know that you've been taken. Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb. Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come. I dreamed about you, baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked but some of you was light. The sands of time were falling from your fingers and your thumb and you were waiting for the miracle to come. Baby, let's get married, we've been alone too long. Let's be alone together, let's see if we're that strong. Let's do something crazy, something absolutely wrong while we're waiting for the miracle to come. Nothing left to do when you know that you've been taken. Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb. Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting, waiting for the miracle to come. When you've fallen on the highway and you're lying in the rain, and they ask you how you're doing, of course you say you can't complain -- if you're squeezed for information, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for the miracle to come. Copyright © Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson and Sony/ATV Music Publishing Canada Company Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved. <<<Previous Next>>> Songs Home