The Third Invention (Written By Cohen, Performed I Lyrics

(Angels)          Blindly he worked
                  At his third invention
                  Taking the chances
                  Of one who is lost
                  
                  Feeling his way
                  To a cleaner expression
                  Of whatever it was
                  He stumbled across
                  
                  All for the sake
                  Of a possible woman
                  He goaded himself
                  With a technical hope
                  
                  For the sake of his longing
                  We came to the window
                  He put on his cloths
                  And he walked through the smoke
                  
                  All for the sake
                  Of an interested woman
                  Riding to him
                  On a flicker of hope
                  
                  Some tourist of beauty
                  In full disappointment
                  Ready to fall
                  In love with a ghost
                  
                  And here was his ghost
                  With his third invention
                  The usual claim 
                  To the highest reward
                  
                  And now it was ready
                  His third invention
                  Ready to fall
                  In love with the world
                  
                  And he falls back
                  And she comes forward
                  The eye of his labour
                  Measures them both
                  
                  And she lies in the arms
                  Of his third invention
                  And back in his room
                  He commences the fourth
                  
                  This is the work
                  Of the highest pretension
                  An automatic
                  Ode to the world
                  
                  O deep in comfort
                  O full employment
                  He's lost to the fourth
                  He's lost to the third.