“Steer your heart past the pain that is far more real than you. “Lift this glass of blood, try to say the grace.”Ī song of courage as the heart moves into the darkness. The feeling of a prayer that’s been there forever, but the spiritual comforts of the past no longer available. If I didn’t have your love to make it real.”Ī seeker hits the road and finds the joys of solitude. “I’m leaving the table, I’m out of the game.”Ī classic Cohen love song: the deep gratitude felt by one heart opening to another.
“I was fighting with temptation, but I didn’t want to win”Ī slow, relentless, and somehow joyous ballad of letting it all go by. A guitar solo you will remember. “Only one of us was real-and that was me.” A confession of the selfishness of love and the hope of a correction. “Didn’t know I had permission to murder and to maim.” An unflinching exploration of the religious mind. “Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.”Ī press release announcing the release date of You Want It Darker provides a description of each song on the album. “We are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon,” he wrote. Most interpreters of Cohen have understood the lyrics of the album’s lead song to be an acceptance of mortality. Weeks before his death, he released an album, You Want It Darker.
He’s rarely seen in public these days, though his farewell letter to muse Marianne Ihlen did become public last month. For 50 years Leonard Cohen gave voice to the pain and hope of thousands of followers.
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