Words and Music by Leonard Cohen

I finally broke into the prison, 

I found my place in the chain. 

Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows, 

all the brave young men 

they're waiting now to see a signal 

which some killer will be lighting for pay. 

Into this furnace I ask you now to venture, 

you whom I cannot betray. 

 

I fought in the old revolution 

on the side of the ghost and the King. 

Of course I was very young 

and I thought that we were winning; 

I can't pretend I still feel very much like singing 

as they carry the bodies away. 

 

Into this furnace I ask you now to venture... 

 

Lately you've started to stutter 

as though you had nothing to say. 

To all of my architects let me be traitor. 

Now let me say I myself gave the order 

to sleep and to search and to destroy. 

 

Into this furnace I ask you now to venture...