Your Favorite Leonard Cohen Line

[linda_lakeside]

Then let your other selves be wrung
let them manifest and come
'til love is pierced and love is hung
and every taste is on the tongue
and every kind of freedom done
then oh my love, oh my love,
oh my love.

***

Lost in the rages of fragrance
Lost in the rags of remorse
Lost in the waves of his sickness
That loosens the high silver nerves

***

Please understand I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this or any other matter.

[Tri-me]

Favourite impossible my top two may be

I did not realize until you walked away
That you have a perfect ass.
Forgive me for not falling
For your face or conversation

I call my kitten buttinface, (buttonface in some company) very appropriate for a kitten named Leonardcohen
I have to smile when I hear him sing

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice

[Steven]

At this moment, my favorite line is: "And the skylight is like skin for
a drum I'll never mend and all the rain falls down amen on the
works of last year's man."

[Aslak]

These two are my favourites:

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they're the crumbs I've left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound.

Some women wait for Jesus, and some women wait for Cain
so I hang upon my altar
and I hoist my axe again.
And I take the one who finds me back to where it all began
when Jesus was the honeymoon
and Cain was just the man.
And we read from pleasant Bibles that are bound in blood and skin
that the wilderness is gathering
all its children back again.

[the idler]

Just for today...

"Your saintly kisses reek... of Iodine"

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[Tchocolatl]

Iodine was written with Phil Spector. 'Smells of the guy also.

"My masquerade of trust was iodine
And everywhere the flare of iodine"

[Diane]

Not a 'line' as such, but on this clip about You Have Loved Enough, I like the way he says "forget it" and then grins...! (about 2/3 the way through).

http://www.leonardcohen.com/epk7.html

[linda_lakeside]

'Smells of the guy also.

[lizzytysh]

A lovely trip back in time, seeing that clip again, Diane. Thanks.

[lizzytysh]

Well, I went even a little further back in time to the Sony Discussion Board, got a new password, and found it to be in Read-Only mode. Read a message by a "Marie," who announced in July that the site [where I'd always visited] would be Read-only, henceforth, and something about there being no guarantee that any messages would be carried over onto the new site for the discussion board [close enough of a paraphrase]. I went to the new location, and found nothing to be happening there.

The bottom line is that it felt a bit like the scene in "A Clockwork Orange," where the son returns home to find his room has been rented to some insensitive bloke. Whilst there, however, I found a very appealing post that I decided to carry over to here:

From: jaufenanger 25/01/2005 07:31
To: ThomasC19 9 of 9

681.9 in reply to 681.8

Leonard inspires strong identification for people in love, doesn't he? You know, I think he's asking us to grow in experience and understanding along with him. I used to really identify with the character in "I'm Your Man," for instance - sort of serene resentment, if such a thing can be imagined; disappointment very sweet, and at times quite funny. I'd ask, "What kind of women are you dating, Leonard?'" But he always saluted the divine nature of people. He respects people, and he loves them. That's the bottom line - when it comes to learning to let go - just loving the people who have broken our hearts along with everybody else in the world. That's what thrilled me so much about "Ten New Songs." I'm playing Heather continuously now, getting it into my head. Boy, the critics panned it - what do they know? Ignore them. He is speaking directly to me, to us, yes?

I hope some of those people who were over there found their way to over here.
~ Lizzy

[linda_lakeside]

Yes, this person certainly knows how to listen to and identify with Leonard and his work.

Linda.

[lizzytysh]

Yes .

As a matter of fact, I think I'm going to move this post and your response over to the other thread I started.

~ Lizzy

[linda_lakeside]

Ah..Yes. If it could only be so. Unfortunately, Jarkko found out not too long ago, that single posts cannot be moved. Entire threads must be moved, or else, all may be lost. So, I suppose, the amalgamation of two threads could be a solution. However, I'd really hate to bother any living human being with a request like that. The moving of threads is no picnic either, from what I gathered.

Yet, somehow, I feel that the appropriate posts will find their way to appropriate (or not) places. Won't that be jolly? It will make for many fine hours of reading.

Actually, I saved that clip that Diane left, as I didn't have time to view it. I'm reminded now, that I should take a look at it.

Can you just imagine the intermingling of some of these threads/posts??! This would probably be the biggest site on the 'net. We could call it "Songs of Love and Hate" or "Songs from a Room" or many others....

Linda.

[Fljotsdale]

Not a 'line' as such, but on this clip about You Have Loved Enough, I like the way he says "forget it" and then grins...! (about 2/3 the way through).

http://www.leonardcohen.com/epk7.html

Thanks, Diane. I enjoyed that.

[Leslie]

"We are all here with our terribly shabby human limitations. What can I possibly do except sing a few of these appallingly simple songs I've written? What did you expect?"