"Dance Me To The End Of Love"

LEONARD COHEN LYRICS

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Writer(s): Leonard Cohen
Copyright: Sony/ATV Songs LLC, Stranger Music Inc.


SPANISH

Baila conmigo hasta tu belleza con un violín ardiente
Baila conmigo a través del pánico hasta que esté a salvo
Llévame como a una rama de olivo y sé mi paloma protectora
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor

Oh déjame ver tu belleza cuando los testigos se hayan ido
Déjame sentir tus movimientos tal y como lo hacen en Babilonia
Muéstrame poco a poco aquello de lo que solo conozco los límites
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor

Baila conmigo hasta el momento de la boda, bailemos una y otra vez
Baila conmigo con mucha ternura y baila conmigo por mucho tiempo
Estamos los dos por debajo de nuestro amor, estamos los dos por encima
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor

Baila conmigo hasta donde los niños están pidiendo a nacer
Baila conmigo a través de las cortinas que nuestros besos han gastado
Levanta una tienda de refugio ahora, aunque cada hilo se rompa
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor

Baila conmigo hasta tu belleza con un violín ardiente
Baila conmigo a través del pánico hasta que esté a salvo
Tócame con tu mano desnuda tócame con tu guante
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor
Baila conmigo hasta el fin del amor

From Wikipedia, the free enciclopedia

"Dance Me to the End of Love" is a 1984 song by Leonard Cohen. It was first performed by Cohen on his 1984 album Various Positions. It has since been recorded by various artists, and has been described as "trembling on the brink of becoming a standard".^[1]

Although structured as a love song, "Dance Me to the End Of Love" was in fact inspired by the Holocaust. In an interview, Cohen said of the song:

“

'Dance Me to the End Of Love' ... it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet[2] was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity.

”

In 1996, Welcome Books released a book called Dance Me to the End of Love, as part of its "Art & Poetry" series; the book featured the lyrics of the song alongside paintings by Henri Matisse.