Graeme Allwright - Leonard Cohen - Suzanne

Text: Leonard Cohen (1966)
Year: 1967

Suzanne takes you to listen to the mermaids
She takes you by the hand
To spend an endless night
You know she is half crazy
That's why you want to stay

On a silver plate
She serves you jasmine Tea
And when you want to tell her
That you have no love for her
She calls you in her waves
And lets the sea answer
That you have always been in love with her

You want to stay by her side
Now you are not afraid anymore
To travel with closed eyes
A flame is burning in your heart

He was a fisherman who came over land
Who has watched a very long time
From the top of a lonely tower
And when he understood that only
Lost men were seeing him
He said he would sail
Until the waves free us
But he himself was broken
Way before the sky opens
Neglected and almost a man
He sank under your wisdom
Like a stone

You want to stay by her side
Now you are not afraid anymore
To travel with closed eyes
A flame is burning in your heart

Suzanne takes you to listen to the mermaids
She takes you by the hand
To spend an endless night
The sun is flowing like honey
Over Our Lady of the Tears
She shows you where to look for
Among the trashes and the flowers
In the weeds there are dreams
Of children in the early morning
Who lean over towards love
They always lean over like that
And Suzanne holds the mirror

You want to stay by her side
Now you are not afraid anymore
To travel with closed eyes
A strange wound in your heart

Graeme Allwright - Leonard Cohen - Stranger Song

French Title: "L'étranger"
Text: Leonard Cohen
Year: 1975
Graeme Allwright adapted the song of Leonard Cohen: Stranger Song (1967).
The lyrics are very close.

slightly modified translation from : http://les-paroles-de-chansons.com/chanson/montrer/636508/graeme-allwright/paroles-et-traduction-de-chanson-ltranger/

All the men you have known
Told you they did not want anymore
To give the cards, caught like in a trap.
It's hard to hold back the hand
Of a man who seeks further
And who wants to reach the sky to open up
And who wants to reach the sky to open up

Then picking up the cards
That stayed there on the table
You know he left you very little,
not even his laugh
Like all players he sought
The card that is so delusional
That he will never need another anymore
That he will never need another anymore

One day, leaning out of your window
He will tell you he wants to be reborn
To the world that your tenderness is hiding to him
And taking from his wallet
An old train schedule, he says:
I warned you: I am a stranger
I warned you: I am a stranger

Now another stranger
Seems to want you to ignore his dreams
As though they were the burden of someone else
You have seen this man already
Giving the cards with his golden arm
But now you see his hand is frozen
Yes now you see his hand is frozen

But you do not like to look at
Another tired man
lay down all his cards like a defeat.
While he is dreaming himself to sleep
In the shadow you see like a smoke
A road that goes up behind his head
A road that goes up behind his head

You tell him to come in and to sit
And when you turn around you see
That your bedroom door remains open.
And when you take his hand, he says:
Do not be afraid my tender friend
This is not me anymore, oh my love, the stranger
This is not me anymore, oh my love, the stranger

I waited always certain
To see you again between the trains
Soon another one will have to be boarded
Oh I never had you know
any secret plan
Nor anyone to drive me
And you wonder what he is looking to say
Yes you wonder what he means

Down the riverside tomorrow
I'll wait for you if you don't mind
There, near the bridge they are building
Then leaves the quay for a sleeper
You know he seeks another shelter
That he never has been a stranger
That he never has been a stranger

And you say: okay, at the bridge or elsewhere, I will come

Then picking up the cards
that stayed there on the table
You know that he left you very little
not even his laugh
Like all players he sought
The card that is so delusional
That he will never need another
That he will never need another

One day, leaning out of your window
He will tell you he wants to be reborn
To the world that your tenderness is hiding to him
And taking from his wallet
An old train schedule, he says:
I warned you: I am a stranger
I warned you: I am a stranger ...

Graeme Allwright - At the heart of the tree

Original Title: "Au coeur de l'arbre"

Text: Maurice Cocagnac
Year: 1979

At the heart of the tree, there is the fruit
At the heart of the fruit, there is the seed
At the heart of the seeds, there is life
And the next season

At the heart of man, there is love
At the heart of love, there is sorrow
At the heart of sorrows, there is the day
That morning brings back

At the heart of the tree, there is wood
At the heart of wood, there is the plank
And from two planks, a cross is made
that holds God in its branches

At the heart of shadow, there is the night
At the hearts of nights, it's your absence
If I fall asleep, your light shines
You are in the silence