Is it about Cohen's guilt about some kind of personal artistic impurity or a criticism of another singer with a 'lie in his voice'? He thanks the 'Keepers of truth' for doing their duty, singers whose words are pure and truthful and honest, unlike his own song that is wrong and 'smudges the air'. Im not sure but how I interpret the last two verses is the character with the lie in is voice is only more confused by all the ladies he shags, he must go begging 'in beauty's disguise' at the hinge of her thighs - a great metaphor for a vagina!
Is it about Cohen's guilt about some kind of personal artistic impurity or a criticism of another singer with a 'lie in his voice'? He thanks the 'Keepers of truth' for doing their duty, singers whose words are pure and truthful and honest, unlike his own song that is wrong and 'smudges the air'. Im not sure but how I interpret the last two verses is the character with the lie in is voice is only more confused by all the ladies he shags, he must go begging 'in beauty's disguise' at the hinge of her thighs - a great metaphor for a vagina!