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by Stranger
Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:41 pm
Forum: News
Topic: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!!!
Replies: 115
Views: 31314

Re: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!

Happy birthday Leonard,

Your songs have aged as gracefully as you yourself.

What else is there to say?
by Stranger
Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:04 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Favourite humourous LC lyrics
Replies: 56
Views: 18988

Re: Favourite humourous LC lyrics

between the birthmark and the stain, between the ocean and your open vein, between the snowman and the rain, and most other "in betweens" of this song "between the peanuts and the cage" takes the prize, though..... BUT: in the same song there are also some of his most beautiful l...
by Stranger
Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:21 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Leonard fans - what else do we share in common?
Replies: 19
Views: 5232

Re: Leonard fans - what else do we share in common?

I don't see anyone replying "literature", followed by favourite writers.

Mine are:

- Graham Greene
- V.S. Naipaul
- Gabriel Garcia Marques
- Paul Theroux
- Brett Easton Ellis

and some in other language zones.
by Stranger
Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:40 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: "If it be Your will."
Replies: 22
Views: 5841

Re: "If it be Your will."

Somehow this song is on my mind all the time these days. It has everything that LC stands for for me.
by Stranger
Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:28 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: when i was little...
Replies: 7
Views: 1503

Re: when i was little...

Beautiful story Kerryanna. I always wonder if artists are aware of the many different ways people get to know them, and the impact they have on individuals.
by Stranger
Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:54 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: How does LC's music influence your life?
Replies: 12
Views: 2499

Re: How does LC's music influence your life?

The melancholy melodies, the melancholy but often at the same time hilarious lyrics, the whole completed by sparkling bits of sounds in the background; all together Leonard Cohen has a calming, reassuring and,in a way, spiritually uplifting impact. And it does beautify, or at least make bearable, be...
by Stranger
Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:41 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Favourite humourous LC lyrics
Replies: 56
Views: 18988

Re: Favourite humourous LC lyrics

"I'm cold as a new razor blade"

"I'm the little Jew who wrote the bible"

"Take me to the slaugther house, I will wait there with the lamb"
by Stranger
Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:15 pm
Forum: Leonard Cohen's music
Topic: Shag Song
Replies: 22
Views: 4663

Re: Shag Song

Take this longing..........
by Stranger
Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:23 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: chat room
Replies: 20
Views: 3448

Re: chat room

Well, I never managed to get into the chat room either. I tried to, because I wonder what visitors to the chatroom talk about that isn't discussed already on the Forum.
by Stranger
Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:04 am
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Worst Song Lyrics Poll
Replies: 65
Views: 15991

Re: Worst Song Lyrics Poll

OK, that one looked funnier last night when I wrote it after a few beers. But this one is real bad (from Boney M "Belfast"), unless I miss the deeper sense hidden underneath it: When the people believin' When the people believin' When the people believin' All the children cause the childre...
by Stranger
Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:37 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Worst Song Lyrics Poll
Replies: 65
Views: 15991

Re: Worst Song Lyrics Poll

I stepped into an avalanche
It covered up my doo wah diddy diddy dum
by Stranger
Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:39 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: how did you get into leonard cohen?
Replies: 73
Views: 20610

It was around 1969 and I was 15. One of the teachers at my school thought it was not much fun for him nor for us if he taught us literature, so instead he installed a stereo in a basement and played Dylan, Zappa, Simon & Garfunkel, The Doors, etc at full force every time we were supposed to get ...
by Stranger
Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:28 am
Forum: News
Topic: The 2007 Songwriters Hall of Fame
Replies: 46
Views: 16365

Who together with Leonard? A tie between Cat Stevens and Lou Reed.
by Stranger
Thu Mar 02, 2006 2:37 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: What genre?
Replies: 23
Views: 20794

Poet-Singer?
by Stranger
Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:36 pm
Forum: Comments & Questions
Topic: Chatroom nonfuntion
Replies: 12
Views: 2663

Must have been my double; at least it wasn't me!

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