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I'd like to try to read your palm.
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy
Before I let you take me home.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Well you know that I love to live with you,
But you make me forget so very much.
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
We met when we were almost young
Deep in the green lilac park.
You held on to me like I was a crucifix,
As we went kneeling through the dark.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now.
Then why do I feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
Is fastening my ankle to a stone.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
For now I need your hidden love.
I'm cold as a new razor blade.
You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave.
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Oh, you are really such a pretty one.
I see you've gone and changed your name again.
And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,
To wash my eyelids in the rain!
Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
He’s putting us on, right?
"Putting us on" to some great music. Absolutely.
He’s putting us on, right?
The pop radio station is right over there, maybe more of your speed...
I never understood whyhe is so popular. He can't really sing and many of his lyrics are very clicheish
Go listen to this album. Songs of Love and Hate.
Then maybe you'll get it.
Play some songs or one album side from his best album: Songs of Love and Hate.
Your jaws will drop when you here some of these songs.
Oh jeez...
I was in elementary school when I read LC's The Favourite Game.
Way too young to understand some things, and it set-me-up for a slightly different look at love.
oooo, this is an interesting comment. i'm intrigued and am going to have to check out that book.
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perfect
And RIP Leonard...
The DVD of his performance at London's O2 arena was superb. He OWNS IT!!!
I saw him perform at a small amphitheater in Istanbul that tour. Magic magic magic!
Way too young to understand some things, and it set-me-up for a slightly different look at love.
The only image that I'm getting is an old perv in a trench coat near a bus stop. Pant legs held up by rubber bands.
Oh you're looking for Aqualung right?
I first saw it on PBS long ago and received a DVD from Santa very next Christmas.
What an amazing concert. Impeccable musicianship, heavenly backup vocals and the master himself.
things aint that bad
An easy 10.
By far his best, and that really says something
An easy 10.Maybe if he had just been a songwriter and let others perform his works, I may have found some appreciation.
I suggest you turn down the volume and read the lyrics then. I love the power of this song.
Still better than Tom Waits.
She's from one of those places near England. Like, Wales or Denmark or something.
How are things in your trailer park?
Tired of winning yet?
Did you listen to the words. He is a poet on the level of Dylan and his voice has the growl of the experience to go with it...
I am with you. Just don't dig it one bit.
IMHO Dylan wrote about 50% of the great songs
Leonard wrote about 25%
Most of the rest are one hit wonders
YMMV
Anthony Who?
No, there ya go.
Maybe if he had just been a songwriter and let others perform his works, I may have found some appreciation.
one of my favorites of Cohen.
Heart wrenching.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ACgCmBubb4
I saw this article a few weeks ago on Rolling Stone:
...after he informed Cohen of Ihlen's looming death from leukemia, the legendary singer-songwriter-poet responded two hours later with a "beautiful" letter, which Mollestad then read to Ihlen.
"It said, 'Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine," Mollestad told the CBC of Cohen's letter.
"'And you know that I've always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don't need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.'"
Two days later, Ihlen "lost consciousness and slipped into death," Mollestad said. Her funeral was held Friday in her native Oslo, Norway.
Cohen met Ihlen in the Sixties while vacationing on the Greek Island in Hydra; he ultimately invited her and her infant son to live with him in Montreal. Ihlen and Cohen remained together for the next seven years, with their relationship serving as Cohen's inspiration for Songs of Leonard Cohen's "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" and Songs From a Room's "Bird on the Wire."
Cohen's verified Facebook page also remembered Ihlen with a series of written tributes from her friends and Cohen biographers as well as a letter Mollestad wrote to Cohen informing the singer of Ihlen's death.
"Your letter came when she still could talk and laugh in full consciousness. When we read it aloud, she smiled as only Marianne can. She lifted her hand, when you said you were right behind, close enough to reach her. It gave her deep peace of mind that you knew her condition. And your blessing for the journey gave her extra strength," Mollestad wrote.
"In her last hour I held her hand and hummed 'Bird on a Wire,' while she was breathing so lightly. And when we left he room, after her soul had flown out of the window for new adventures, we kissed her head and whispered your everlasting words: So long, Marianne."
their songs echo
through time
It's ok i do not think he is a god, but I think he is a amazing song writer. I also like Monty Python...
And RIP Leonard...
A link to a programme done by the BBC:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00csph9
Good read about Cohen and his Marianne:
https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/arts/marianne-ihlen-more-than-leonard-cohens-muse
I saw this article a few weeks ago on Rolling Stone:
...after he informed Cohen of Ihlen's looming death from leukemia, the legendary singer-songwriter-poet responded two hours later with a "beautiful" letter, which Mollestad then read to Ihlen.
"It said, 'Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine," Mollestad told the CBC of Cohen's letter.
"'And you know that I've always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don't need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.'"
Two days later, Ihlen "lost consciousness and slipped into death," Mollestad said. Her funeral was held Friday in her native Oslo, Norway.
Cohen met Ihlen in the Sixties while vacationing on the Greek Island in Hydra; he ultimately invited her and her infant son to live with him in Montreal. Ihlen and Cohen remained together for the next seven years, with their relationship serving as Cohen's inspiration for Songs of Leonard Cohen's "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" and Songs From a Room's "Bird on the Wire."
Cohen's verified Facebook page also remembered Ihlen with a series of written tributes from her friends and Cohen biographers as well as a letter Mollestad wrote to Cohen informing the singer of Ihlen's death.
"Your letter came when she still could talk and laugh in full consciousness. When we read it aloud, she smiled as only Marianne can. She lifted her hand, when you said you were right behind, close enough to reach her. It gave her deep peace of mind that you knew her condition. And your blessing for the journey gave her extra strength," Mollestad wrote.
"In her last hour I held her hand and hummed 'Bird on a Wire,' while she was breathing so lightly. And when we left he room, after her soul had flown out of the window for new adventures, we kissed her head and whispered your everlasting words: So long, Marianne."
Just might be what Kurt Cobain meant by "...a Leonard Cohen after-world...?
Everybody in my elevator loves this live version of the song... we be dancing like happy hippies... "Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received a Princess of Asturias Awards for literature." cosmiclint, hope life is grand for you these days, friend...
Fortunately it's easily forgotten, so doesn't rise to earworm status. Therefore not hateable.
Indeed, the master at work.
Great song. Great live version. I love Leonard.
I agree his last world tour was amazing - we loved it....but it wasn't that expensive, just normal price for world class acts, and about half the cost of the RStones
This guy love Len
good taste in burro's, great taste in music......
Are there no grapes upon the vine?
Are there no chocolates in your boxes anymore,
Are there no diamonds in your mine?
Yesh baby! Songs of Love and Death!
Everybody in my churches loves this live version...
I'm with you there, rt. Love this song, and this live version does it justice :)
Everybody in my churches loves this live version...
Did you listen to the words. He is a poet on the level of Dylan and his voice has the growl of the experience to go with it...
I am with you. Just don't dig it one bit.
Did you listen to the words. He is a poet on the level of Dylan and his voice has the growl of the experience to go with it...
Yeah, I'd rather remember how he sounded with the 1970(?) recording than this weak performance...
If you want to play songwriters that can't sing a lick then mix in some Lou Read from time to time.
Hear hear! More Reed! Less Cohen!
She's from one of those places near England. Like, Wales or Denmark or something.
So?
Funny. But all things considered, after 50 years of Cohen-esque 'hallelujahs' and laments, this song sounds rather...upbeat. Hell, for a second there he almost sounds like Neil Diamond.
She's from one of those places near England. Like, Wales or Denmark or something.
If you want to play songwriters that can't sing a lick then mix in some Lou Read from time to time.
...the contrast over the decades is striking, but this one works quite well...
I never understood whyhe is so popular. He can't really sing and many of his lyrics are very clicheish
He's not for everyone. No shame in that. I'm told Joanie Mitchell has a transcendently beautiful voice, but it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Some people just don't get it.