Come Healing Lyrics - Old Ideas - Leonard Cohen

O gather up the brokenness 

And bring it to me now 

The fragrance of those promises 

You never dared to vow 

The splinters that you carry 

The cross you left behind 

Come healing of the body 

Come healing of the mind 

And let the heavens hear it 

The penitential hymn 

Come healing of the spirit 

Come healing of the limb 

Behold the gates of mercy 

In arbitrary space 

And none of us deserving 

The cruelty or the grace 

O solitude of longing 

Where love has been confined 

Come healing of the body 

Come healing of the mind 

O see the darkness yielding 

That tore the light apart 

Come healing of the reason 

Come healing of the heart 

O troubled dust concealing 

An undivided love 

The heart beneath is teaching 

To the broken heart above 

Let the heavens falter 

Let the earth proclaim 

Come healing of the altar 

Come healing of the name 

O longing of the branches 

To lift the little bud 

O longing of the arteries 

To purify the blood 

And let the heavens hear it 

The penitential hymn 

Come healing of the spirit 

Come healing of the limb 

O let the heavens hear it 

The penitential hymn 

Come healing of the spirit 

Come healing of the limb