Leonard Cohen Afterworld
Tempers Lyrics

You fell in love with the air
You fell in love with the intangible, the feeling of freedom and lightness.

In the air you will stay
You are now free and weightless, unbound by earthly limitations.

Sweeping through my bedroom in the afternoon
You are a fleeting presence, passing through my life and disrupting the mundane.

I tried to catch you but I caught a sigh
Despite my efforts to hold onto you, all I was left with was a fleeting memory and a heavy heart.

Strangers will always love you
Your beauty and freedom will always attract others, even those who don't personally know you.

Because you remind them of someone else
Your essence evokes memories of others, of past loves and idealized figures.

They can always be or see angels trembling
Through you, they can access a higher state of being or immerse themselves in divine beauty.

I tried to breathe you in but I fell out of time
I attempted to hold onto your essence, but doing so made me lose my sense of reality and time.

That's the beauty of a melody that cries
This is the essence of beauty and art, the ability to evoke intense emotion through sound.

You kill yours, so I find mine
You inspire me to pursue my own path, to find my own source of beauty and creativity.

Oh I'm lost again, dark, peace burning
Once again, I am consumed by the darkness within me, but it is a peaceful kind of pain, one that illuminates and inspires me.

Oh I'm lost again, incandescent
I am adrift once more, but this time I am burning brightly, full of the energy and power of creation.

Strangers will always love you
Your essence will always captivate others, bringing them a sense of wonder and beauty.