ive listened to all his albums many times and read most of his work , but this would be the #1 branded to my brain ---
are you ready
................here it goes ---- ( you'll never be the same........................)"Because I dream that there are chains
I dream there is release"
think about it ............
here's the entire poem
EVERY PEBBLE by Leonard Cohen
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Every pebble dreams of itself
Every leaf has it's scheme
The sun is by desire bound to travel down a beam
Defeated still I cannot yield my heart to blessed peace
Because I dream that there are chains
I dream there is release
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I told this to the prisoner who killed the man I hate
I told it to the miner who dug up my golden plate
Therefore do I live in hell
For dreaming that hell is
The distance that I dare to put between my hand and his
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I dreamed my body yesternight
I dreamed the universe
I dreamed I dreamed a thousand years
In order to rehearse
The seven days of wonderment when, drawn from the mist
I was clothed in nakedness
And suffered to exist
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I dreamed that I was given song to be my early proof
That my dwelling place with you
Has neither ground nor roof
Nor windows to look out of, Lord,
Nor mirrors to look in
Nor singing to be out of it
Nor dying to begin
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O child this is your human dream
This is your human sleep
And do not strive so hard to climb
From what is sound and deep
I love the dream that you've begun beneath my evergreen
I love the pebble and the sun
And all that's in-between
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And for this conversation in the early morning light
I offer up these shabby days
That fray before your sight
Nor can I know how many more
Will pass 'ere I'm unstrung
And all that left this song you placed
Upon your creature's tongue
