from Leonard Cohen:
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
from Leonard Cohen:
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
Laura(southernxyl) says:
“Deeply unimpressed” is really funny.
November 28, 2009, 11:07 amtroll_dc2 says:
The lyrics sum up how a lot of people whom I know feel about the Obama Administration, even though it is physically still in office.
November 28, 2009, 11:43 amCornellian says:
You could easily fill dozens of blog quotes with awesome snippets from the songs of Leonard Cohen.
See, e.g.,
Everybody knows you were discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
Everybody knows
See also,
Oh save me a place in the ten dollar grave
With those who took money
For the pleasure they gave
Or
Looks like freedom but it feels like death
It’s something in between I guess
It’s closing time
Just a few of the many, many examples one could cite.
November 28, 2009, 11:45 amLyric Critic says:
It’s not Sunday yet, but it’s nice to read a good lyric for a change. Cohen is a great songwriter who has suffered from poor interpreters of his work (including himself).
November 28, 2009, 1:02 pmzhim says:
Leonard Cohen leaves me vacant and deeply unimpressed.
November 28, 2009, 1:46 pmmike says:
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
November 28, 2009, 1:52 pmYou saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Gordon Langston says:
I would have guessed….really.
November 28, 2009, 2:18 pmsubpatre says:
How true, but sometimes the complete opposite. Mike reminds us of Cohen’s Hallelujah, a wonderful song that became sublime under Buckley or Cale’s hands.
November 28, 2009, 2:34 pmLyric Critic says:
I like those versions of “Hallelujah”, too, though I find Buckley’s a bit overblown. However, there’ve been many covers of it, so there are bound to be a few good ones. Cohen has written many other songs just as good as “Hallelujah” that are still awaiting the right performer to do them justice.
November 28, 2009, 5:19 pmCornellian says:
Cohen has written many other songs just as good as “Hallelujah” that are still awaiting the right performer to do them justice.
Jennifer Warnes did a very good job on a bunch of them on Famous Blue Raincoat.
November 28, 2009, 5:45 pmCornellian says:
So you treated her to a flake of your life
November 28, 2009, 5:46 pmAnd when she got home
She was nobody’s wife
Purple Kooaid says:
A friend from college was throwing a surprise party for her husband, also a dear friend. It was a long drive (15 hours) and we organized our vacation around the event. As soon as we left the party and buckled up my 4 year old says, “We came all the way for that?”
November 28, 2009, 11:16 pmLaura(southernxyl) says:
PK, I think that song fragment must have been written for your kid. Fits the story exactly.
November 29, 2009, 8:33 am