Leonard Cohen - Heart With No Companion lyrics

Now I greet you from the other side

of sorrow and despair

From a love so vast and shattered

It will reach you everywhere

And I sing this for the captain,

Who’s ship has not been built

For the mother in confusion,

Her cradle still unfilled

For the heart with no companion,

For the soul without a king

For the prima ballerina,

Who cannot dance to anything

Through the days of shame that are coming

Through the nights of wild distress

May your promise count for nothing

You must keep it nonetheless

You must keep it or the captain,

Who’s ship has not been built

For the mother in confusion,

her cradle still unfilled

For the heart with no companion,

For the soul without a king

For the prima ballerina,

Who cannot dance to anything