Clap! Clap! Lyrics - Cohen Leonard

(Mirror Song) (Written By Cohen, Performed In "Night Magic") 

(Michael) I never thought I'd get this far 

(Audience) We always knew you would 

(Michael) I've put a little weight on 

(Audience) Not really, it looks good. 

(Michael) These lines around my mouth are new 

(Audience) They're the lines of wisdom 

(Michael) This puffiness around my eyes? 

(Audience) The burden of the kingdom! 

(Michael) You know I like to talk with you 

(Audience) We do too, we never knew 

Someone who we could talk to 

Who was quite as smart as you. 

We would like to hear you talk all night 

But tell us if we might 

Interrupt you with applause 

If you should chance to pause. 

We would love to rock the walls 

Again and again with curtain calls 

And a standing ovation 

For your brilliant conversation ... 

(Michael) Clap, clap! 

Now silence 

Have you noticed people wear... 

(Audience) Copies of your favourite hat? 

(Michael) You have noticed that my dears? 

(Audience) O yes we have noticed that. 

(Michael) They wear copies of my shoes 

(Audience) Two by twos they wear your shoes 

(Michael) And they like to sing my blues 

(Audience) Echoes of your ah's and ooh's. 

(Michael) You know I like to talk with you 

(Audience) We do too, we never knew 

Someone who we could talk to 

Who was quite as smart as you. 

(Michael) I'm afraid that I've become 

For nearly everyone 

A model of behaviour 

A devil or a saviour. 

(Audience) He's afraid that he's become 

For next to nearly everyone 

The very latest model of behaviour 

He's a devil, he's a saviour 

(Michael) They read my news and 

they hold their views 

On whether I'm the devil 

or a saviour 

(Audience) He's afraid that he's become 

For almost everyone 

The very latest model of behaviour 

He's a devil, he's a saviour 

(Michael) I'm the very latest model of behaviour 

But I've paid my dues 

(Audience) We know you have! 

We hold your views! 

(Michael) You read my news? 

(Audience) Of course we do! 

(Michael) I've been a bum. 

(Audience) How very, very, very, very far you've come! 

(Michael) I've crossed this country on my thumb. 

I've met a lot of people... 

(Audience) Good and evil? 

(Michael) Good and evil! 

I've been up hills 

(Audience) You've been down hills. 

(Michael) I've been on junk. 

(Audience) You've beaten junk. 

(Michael) I don't mean pills 

(Audience) You don't mean pills! 

(Michael) I mean the needle 

(Audience) He means the needle 

He means the needle! 

He means the needle! 

(Michael) I've noticed my words on everyone's lips 

And women are always leaving me slips 

Of paper 

I'm supposed to get back to them later 

And sometimes I do 

(Audience) It's only your due 

After all that you've been through 

To lie down with some grateful stranger 

To think he honours someone's bed 

With his wine and with his bread 

And his legendary member 

It is April in December 

It's charity 

It's religion 

Saint Francis with the birds 

Jesus with the leper 

Please talk to us forever 

And ever and ever 

(Michael) Clap, clap 

Now silence! 

But now I make my confession 

Before all the mirrors of history 

This power was given to me 

It must have been given to me 

For something more 

Than a star on the door 

And a foot in this shabby profession 

(Audience) This is surely the sound 

Of the most profound 

Remark that has ever been made 

From the pulpit or the stage 

Or even the gates of heaven 

(Michael) There's something waiting for me 

There's something I must feel 

There's something that must bend its knee 

And I must see it kneel 

There's nothing to be conquered there 

A beast that keeps the crown 

And marble steps into the air 

And one man looking down 

(Audience) He's smiling 

He's smiling 

There is something that is waiting for him 

Something that he must feel 

Something that must bend its knee 

And it's he must see it kneel 

There is something to be conquered there 

There's a beast that keeps the crown 

And marble steps into the air 

And one man looking down 

Smiling, smiling 

(Michael) Clap clap! 

(Audience) Smiling, smiling 

(Michael) Clap, clap!