You Want It Darker lyrics - Iggy Pop

(originally by Leonard Cohen)

If you are the dealer

I'm out of the game

If you are the healer

It means I'm broken and lame

If thine is the glory

Then mine must be the shame

You want it darker

We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified

Be thy holy name

Vilified, crucified

In the human frame

A million candles burning

For the help that never came

You want it darker

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord

There's a lover in the story

But the story's still the same

There's a lullaby for suffering

And a paradox to blame

But it's written in the scriptures

And it's not some idle claim

You want it darker

We kill the flame

They're lining up the prisoners

And the guards are taking aim

I struggled with some demons

They were middle-class and tame

I didn't know I had permission

To murder and to maim

You want it darker

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord

Magnified, sanctified

Be thy holy name

Vilified, crucified

In the human frame

A million candles burning

For the love that never came

You want it darker

We kill the flame

If you are the dealer

Let me out of the game

If you are the healer

I'm broken and lame

If thine is the glory

Mine must be the shame

You want it darker

Hineni, hineni

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my Lord

I'm ready

Oh

Oh

Ah

Ah

(I'm ready, my Lord)

I'm ready, my Lord