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If This Is Not Your Lot
“May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may blessings find you in your solitude.” ~Leonard Cohen
One Like Me
The Only Poemby Leonard Cohen This is the only poemI can readI am the only onecan write itI didn’t kill myselfwhen things went wrongI didn’t turnto drugs or teachingI tried to sleepbut when I couldn’t sleepI learned to writeI learned to writewhat might be readon nights like thisby one like me You can watch a …
Closing Time
Leonard Cohen didn’t do a lot of happy, upbeat songs, but this one comes close: Full lyrics HERE. Thematically, it’s very similar to this one: Full lyrics HERE.
If it be your will
Antony Hegarty now goes by the name Anohni and prefers female pronouns. There’s an old interview with her online at The Guardian that’s worth a read (LINK). I was introduced to her by someone who told me, “If you like Tiny Tim, you’re going to love this (girl).” And he was right, I do. Full …
Anthem
My favorite line isn’t the one you probably think it is. It’s, “Ring the bells that still can ring.” Full lyrics HERE.
Singin’
A quietly happy little song that escaped my notice the first time I heard it. Now it’s one of my favorites. Full lyrics HERE.
In case they want to know…
Full lyrics HERE.
Weapons
(Source: CohenCentric)
Acts
Excerpt from the Brihadarankyaka Upanishad: As a man acts, so does he become. A man of good deeds becomes good, a man of evil deeds becomes evil. A man becomes pure through pure deeds, impure through impure deeds. As a man’s desire is, so is his destiny. For as his desire is, so is his …
I Just Hope He Doesn’t Get Any Uglier
The Killers by Leonard Cohen from The Energy of Slaves (1972) (via) The killers that run the other countries are trying to get us to overthrow the killers that run our own I for one prefer the rule of our native killers I am convinced the foreign killer will kill more of us than the …
Like A
A lot of people have covered this song, but this one is my favorite. They found a joy in it that I don’t think Leonard Cohen necessarily intended, but I think would have appreciated. Full lyrics HERE.
We asked for signs…
It wasn’t his biggest hit, but it contains what is probably his most famous line: There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in Full lyrics HERE.
