Laura Marling on "Alexandra Leaving"

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DennisBerlin
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Laura Marling on "Alexandra Leaving"

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British singer- songwriter Laura Marling (I'm a fan of hers for years) has released her new studio album "Song for our Daughter". The first track is called "Alexandra" and it's her take on the person addressed in Leonard's song.
When I last spoke to Marling, almost four years ago, she was about to launch a podcast series, “Reversal of the Muse”, which aimed to highlight the lack of female studio engineers and producers. “I was never interested in being anyone’s muse,” she told me then, and the theme lives on on Song For Our Daughter. Marling wrote “Alexandra”, the album’s first track, after listening to Leonard Cohen’s “Alexandra Leaving”. “What kind of woman gets to love you?” sings Marling. The track, she says, is about “surviving the passion of being someone’s muse, and what that leaves you with, and how you either reject it and fill yourself out, or you become this kind of hollow, brittle, beautiful object, a desirable object”.
( https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/mu ... -new-album )

Here's a youtube link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-XGoBsg0U

and here's the lyrics:


ALEXANDRA


What became of Alexandra
Did she make it through?
What kind of woman gets to love you?
Wrote us all a little note
Nothing left to lose
What kind of woman gets to love you?

I need to know
Where did Alexandra go?

Alexandra had no fear
She lived out in the woods
She'd tell you what you're doing wrong
If she thinks she'll be understood
Pulls her socks up to her knees
Finds diamonds in the drain
One more diamond to add to her chain

I need to know
Where does Alexandra go?
Where did Alexandra go?

It won't change how I'm feeling
You can try to help me understand
If she left you like a woman
Did you feel like a man?

I need to know
Where did Alexandra go?
Where did Alexandra go?

You had to say, your shit to bed
You could not bear the unsaid
I had to try, a fuck to give
Why should I die so you can live?

What did Alexandra know?
What did Alexandra know?
What did Alexandra know?
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