Favourite L.C line...

K-Holed · Post by **K-Holed** » Thu May 20, 2004 12:05 am

I don't know why, but I always feel like crying when I hear him sing this line

"Put out your cigarette my love, you've been alone too long"

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu May 20, 2004 4:51 am

Welcome to the Forum, K-Holed

~ I know what you mean about the bittersweet nature of that line. It's very easily visualized, isn't it?

~ Lizzy

catherine · Post by **catherine** » Sat May 22, 2004 4:08 am

Where´s that from?

oliver · Post by **oliver** » Sat May 22, 2004 2:03 pm

First of all, hello i really like leonard cohen, and am glad to be able to share my musical experience with you lot.

To reply to catherine, the line posted by K-Holed is from the song "A bunch of lonesome heros (1969 - songs from a room)"

i would like to share a line i love to not say its my favorit, i do not know how i could not love the others

And now you look around you, see her everywhere, many use her body, many comb her hair.
In the hollow of the night when you are cold and numb you hear her talking freely then, she's happy that you've come.

Same album as commented above and the name of the song is Seems so long ago, nancy.

Arno · Post by **Arno** » Sat May 22, 2004 2:22 pm

welcome oliver,

nancy's song is one of my favourites... one I really like to play myself.. great melody and sounds very good with guitar.

A few days ago I re-appreciated (now this isnt a word Lizzy is it?!) Halleluhja... what a great song, I cant believe I havent listened to it for a year or more... one of the additional verses published in stranger music is totally great I think:

There was a time you let me know
what's really going on below
but now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was halleluhja

moves me every time I read it..

does anyone have a recorded version where he sings this verse?? I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could help me get it...

cheers
Arno

oliver · Post by **oliver** » Sat May 22, 2004 2:32 pm

Would you like the song? I have it on the cds :

Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Leonard Cohen - Cohen Live
Leonard Cohen - More Best Of Leonard Cohen (i prefer this live)
Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen CD1
Same as Various Positions.. a best off

I guess if Mr Cohen wouldn't mind i could send it to you.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sat May 22, 2004 3:08 pm

Of course it's a word, Arno.....we understood what you meant, didn't we

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My welcome to you, too, Oliver [one of my favourite cats ~ pure white, gold eyes ~ bore your name]. I become wistful just seeing his name.

Yes! on the lines you've chosen from Nancy. Being 'from the sixties,' I saw many 'Nancy's and those lines express the phenomena perfectly....and with the compassion and sensitivity that Nancy deserved.

Send on, send on......Mr. Cohen would love it.

~ Lizzy

oliver · Post by **oliver** » Sat May 22, 2004 3:30 pm

Okay, i will upload it but im not very sure of where :/ i could open a torrent but at the moment im terrenting cohen1988-04-10.torrent

There was a time you let me know,
Whats really going on below,
Oh but now, you never show to me, do ya.
Oh but i remember, yeah, when i moved in you
And the holy dove she was moving too,
Yes and every single breath she drew was halleluhja

Ill notify when its online

breezie · Post by **breezie** » Tue Jun 01, 2004 8:30 am

"But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that time cannot decay"

Democracy

there are so many lines I love.

Delilah-Noone · Post by **Delilah-Noone** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 2:54 pm

"there were lots of invitations, and I know you sent me some..."

missbrodie04 · Post by **missbrodie04** » Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:35 pm

Hallelujah again I'm afraid...

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.

Maybe it's just because I'm an escaped biblical scholar, but I love the way he plays with the images of David and Bathsheba (and Samson and Delilah) here, and somehow makes the surrender to passion integral to 'faith' (in love? the divine? is there a distinction?) rather than diametrically opposed to it.

Miss Brodie

A'af · Post by **A'af** » Tue Jun 15, 2004 7:01 am

"And just when I climbed this whole mountainside,
to wash my eyelids in the rain!"

from "So Long Marianne"

Arkansastourist · Post by **Arkansastourist** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:05 am

I loved you when our love was blessed I love you now there's nothing left but sorrow and a sense of overtime.

and I'm thinking to myself, " self, do I get time and a half for overtime?"

there's nothing left but sorrow and a sense of overtime..............

Arkansastourist

a prose:

Sorry Lenny things kinda got out of hand and then there are always the complications that screw up plans. Was drummed for so long that I wanted them to see me successful worse than ever. worse than ever.

sorrow and a sense of overtime.................

looks like freedom but it feels like death it's something in between I guess.

smccallon · Post by **smccallon** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 7:09 pm

I cannot pick just one favorite but one that makes me laugh everytime I hear it is the opening of "Fingerprints":

"I touched you once too often
Now I don't know who I am
My fingerprints were missing
When I wiped away the jam"

There is a lot more to this line than just a funny sexual joke. Hahahaha, I think everyone should experience what Cohen talks about in the line above.

-Sean
http://www.livejournal.com/users/passthrufire

Arno · Post by **Arno** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:30 pm

so many great lines to choose from, and I enjoy every post of this thread that re-awakens the memory on some other great line.

this one was mentioned already, but its so true:

looks like freedom but it feels like death, its something in between I guess

sometimes only people around oneself see this supposed freedom...

cheers
Arno

Favourite L.C line...

this line lenny strikes me