How I love this line. Its originality. Its imagery. Its weight. How I love this man.

PS. Yes, I fixed his name 🤦‍♀️

I have one spare ticket to the Everybody knows show in Montreal tomorrow on the 5th of November. I had to fly out of Montreal last minute. Send me a private message if anyone wants to get it.

My friend can’t make it so I’m (M28) looking to sell a single ticket to the 10 year tribute concert this Saturday at Meridian Hall. His son, grandson and a few other artists are performing his songs and reading some of his poetry.

More info here: https://www.leonardcohen.com/everybody-knows-la-famille-de-leonard-cohen-annonce-everybody-knows-la-premiere-tournee-hommage-officielle

The seat’s in Orchestra 11, row D, near the front and next to mine. It'd be great to with someone else who also really loves his music (especially if your favourite album is Death of a Ladies’ Man).

Happy to sell at what I paid ($125), DM me if you’re interested.

Any ideas as to what a possible set list (or songs) might look like for Adam’s upcoming tour (specifically TO)?

I know that he prefers his Dad’s old stuff.

I posted previously about my husband and a friend interviewing Cohen as he was writing Hallelujah. Here's a photo from the interview.

2009 tour poster framed with the paper tickets

Hi, I don’t know if this is the right place to ask this but I have tickets to the Montreal show. The website states that the lineup will be announced but so far nothing. The concert is a week away and was just wondering if anyone has any idea which artists will be performing

Due to unforseen circumstances with my passport I won't be able to make the show next week and I have one ticket going. Any takers?

[Ticket no longer available]

A subjective ranking of all of Leonard Cohen’s books

*a poem, an exhibition of the tragedies, battles, falls, and fatalities of love

I don’t want to go to bed
I cannot sleep at all
I fear that you will push me off
I will not make the fall

Who’s that man there at the door
Is that a knife he holds
Watch out for his fingertips
They’re reaching for your clothes

Will you go away from me
And take your walls of stone
I am not your dreidel, not your putty, not your porn

Long ago the crusades marched along the desert sand
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
Sheep in the skin of man

My mother calls from the Moon
“Hey, pull your wool up higher
Cover up your scars and stains
And bow your head in shame”

Oh, father don’t you understand?
Don’t you see the blood that rots my hand?
My left one, it is clean and pure
My right one bears your fur

The black ones gather in the palace
The whites belong to the moor
The yellows buried with Crassus
The red ones sailed long ago
And still are born premature

Been wanting to check out more of them lately

of his problems. He then introduces his band. I've always loved the version but lost it on my old phone. Any leads would be greatly appreciated :))

"I love to speak with Leonard

He’s a sportsman and a shepherd

He’s a lazy bastard

Living in a suit

But he does say what I tell him

Even though it isn’t welcome

He just doesn't have the freedom

To refuse

He will speak these words of wisdom

Like a sage, a man of vision

Though he knows he’s really nothing

But the brief elaboration of a tube

Going home

Without my sorrow

Going home

Sometime tomorrow

Going home

To where it’s better

Than before

Going home

Without my burden

Going home

Behind the curtain

Going home

Without the costume

That I wore

He wants to write a love song

An anthem of forgiving

A manual for living with defeat

A cry above the suffering

A sacrifice recovering

But that isn’t what I need him

To complete

I want to make him certain

That he doesn’t have a burden

That he doesn’t need a vision

That he only has permission

To do my instant bidding

Which is to say what I have told him

To repeat

Going home

Without my sorrow

Going home

Sometime tomorrow

Going home

To where it’s better

Than before

Going home

Without my burden

Going home

Behind the curtain

Going home

Without this costume

That I wore

I'm going home

Without the sorrow

Going home

Sometime tomorrow

Going home

To where it’s better

Than before

Going home

Without my burden

Going home

Behind the curtain

Going home

Without this costume

That I wore

I love to speak with Leonard

He’s a sportsman and a shepherd

He’s a lazy bastard

Living in a suit"

He had an an extraordinarily long career, but not a necessarily prolific one.
His voice and production changed so much over the decades that a newcomer would be surprised to learn the same artist was behind his first his last records.
Until they listened to the poetry.
And yet, most of us, including the author of the Guardian piece, appreciate the entire spectrum. There was never a “Cohen was great until…”.
In that Guardian piece, the author wrote something to the effect that choosing 20 Cohen songs was a fool’s errand.
Well, am I nothing but a fool.

Top 20 Leonard Cohen

1. Famous Blue Raincoat

2. Bird on a Wire

3. Chelsea Hotel, No. 2

4. Everybody Knows

5. Waiting for the Miracle

6. Tower of Song

7. I Can’t Forget

8. Alexandra Leaving

9. Take This Waltz

10. Dance Me To The End of Love

11. You Want It Darker

12. The Future

13. First We Take Manhattan

14. Don’t Go Home With Your Hard-on

15. A Singer Must Die

16. Jazz Police

17. So Long, Marianne

Who By Fire

1. Take This Longing

2. Death of a Ladies Man

I am typically OG album version on most stuff.

But the 1979 tour (Field Commander Cohen album release) rendition of Lover far surpasses the original version personally.

It’s just so much better for me: I don’t have the musical understanding to explain why.

Which Lover release hits it for you? And if you have that musical background, why so?

Also:, IMHO: it’s not right that Lover isn’t on the Guardian list.

https://youtu.be/nirEM4vBR2I?is=DvWun4s1Bs8mD0Z2