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Oh Wend, you are sooo lucky!

Don't really watch TV but once watched a programme about him, his life ... he came across just as I expected ... a special man.

xxx Shimms xxx

I was fortunate to see him live 18 months ago in my home town, but I've also got the DVD 'L C Live in London' recorded at the O2 Arena in 2008, which is fab.

Yes, That's My Man ... adore that one Stella :))

Oh how I would love to see him live, missed him last year, hadn't realized he was performing near my family.

xxx Shimms xxx

Definately

"DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE"

"I'M YOUR MAN"

XX

Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Like a worm on a hook
Like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee

If I, if I have been unkind
I hope that you can just let it go by
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you

Oh, like a baby, stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me

But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee

I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch
He said to me, "You must not ask for so much"
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door
She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"

Oh, like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free

Hi Uzzi, everyone :))

Dance Me to the End of Love, would love to get married with this playing, it's W's and my favourite of all time, the first he sent me me. O))

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

So adore Cohen, Hallelujah is another favourite.

xxx Shimms xxx

Take this Waltz.

Also love Tom Waits.

Linda

suzian so true
igor maybe I am strange but I understand Cohen or maybe those who don't understand are strange, yes you are right some do not understand the concept of his songs.( gawd knows what they would say to his poetry then) the same as they don't understand Tom Waits (like him) Dylan well who can't like him ..Whiter shade of Pale I walked down the aisle to ....

What I'd say about LC - whatever your personal favourite - is that he's the master lyricist of this generation.

I'd so much love to be able to put into words what he manages to do say in a line or two - for example

"And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife"


So much hurt, so few words

Sue x

A lot of people put doen Cohens lyrics as incomprehensible if you actualy read into them they are not , and only as incomprehensable as let,s say "whiter shade of pale" Tom Trauberts Blues ( even Rod Stewart didn,t understand Tom Waits lyrics ) and a whole lot of Dylans were the same .
The classic must be Bohemian Rhapsody so don,t wonder just enjoy
igor

Wends you are welcome
Goodnight hun

and in the words of Cohen
It's closing time

I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my time
Walk me to the corner
Our steps will always rhyme.
You know my love goes with you
As your love stays with me
It's just the way it changes
Like the shoreline and the sea.
But let's not talk of love or chains
And things we can't untie,
Your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

Goodnight, Uzzi, thanks for this thread - it's made me feel happy x

so long Marianne.


xxxx mick

interesting Teachers isn't one that comes into faves but to listen to is different

maybe I should have asked Cohen fans what they don't like. lol

"i was handsome i was strong
i knew the words of every song
did my singing please you
no the words you sang were wrong

"many girls embraced me
and iwas embraced by men
is my passion perfect lord
no doit once again

Oh yes Wend ... no way to say goodbye

but then I love his early stuff

Suzian I had forgotton stories of the street

Igor all good ..... but no I have to stick with Suzanne cos it was my 1st Cohen song and etc etc as said

Well , how can you choose
"halleluja " Tim Buckleys version also Rufus Wainrights fantastic
but as i posred earlier "dance me to the end of love " is my favourite as is "the masters song " or even " sisters of mercy"
At the end of the day no matter what we think of the man monk or whatever he is the best lyrasist ever vocally well that is another opinion
igor

So much, but tonight my favourite Cohen lyrics are:

I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world.
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,
and lost amongst the subway crowd I try and catch your eye

Have you ever been there?

Sue x

I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleepy golden storm.
Yes, many loved before us
I know that we are not new
In city and in forest
They smiled like me and you.
But now it's come to distances
And both of us must try
Your eyes are soft with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.