Chords for Leonard Cohen - Stages (Audio)

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_ _ _ _ _ Thank you for your generosity.
_ _ _ _ _ This is a gesture of compassion to the elderly. _ _ _
You know, _ [Ab] I was talking with some of the guys, some of the guys in this band are kind of, you know, over the hill. _ _
And they were talking about the _ various stages that a man goes through in relation to his allure to the opposite sex.
It was not a scientific evaluation.
It's just something that arose over a cup of coffee.
It went something like this.
_ _ _ You start off irresistible.
_ And then you become resistible. _
Then you become _ transparent.
Not exactly invisible, but as if you're seen through old plastic.
_ And then you actually do become invisible.
_ _ _ And then, this is the most amazing transformation, _ you become repulsive. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] But that's not [Ebm] the end of [Ab] the story.
_ After repulsive, you become acute.
_ _ And that's where I am. _
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[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ In the places where I used to play.
And [F] I'm crazy for love. _
But I'm not [C] coming home. _ _ _
_ I'm [G] just paying my rent every [F] day in the Tower [C] of Song. _ _ _ _
_ I'm [G] just paying my rent every [F] day in the Tower [C] of Song. _ _ _ _
[G] _ I [C] said to Hank, William, come on, let us again.
Oh, William, she hasn't answered me yet.
But [F] I hear him coughing _ all night [C] long. _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [G] Yeah, a hundred floors above me, [F] _
in the Tower [C] of Song.
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