Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (Alternate Version)

[OttoLund]

Thanks

abeldanger(dot)net

[GriffinElliot]

Mr. Cohen, U R AWESOME

[wstam88]

Come right over, I'll knock on your shoulder

This is a story and this is what I've planned

An angry man, an angry man

Nothing is more fatal than an angry man

[wstam88]

Eyes are hazel, but far too cold

Looking out for love

But none of us can

Where's the monkey that I've been told of

I'm staring at the money that burns in my hand

I'm dancing for dollars

And for a fancy man

[wstam88]

Eyes are sober, this is the plan

I'm sitting in a car heading Neverland

A fancy man, a fancy man

He's pointing with the fingers that are left on his hand

[guthywoodry]

A very special artist, a very special song -ruined by an utterly shit 1980's studio muzak production backing track. Truly, The 1980's was like one big Shell oil-slick disaster upon music. 1980's Corporate filth spoiled everything.

[ausseratem]

!!! VERY IMPORTANT !!!

DANGER OF FALSE FLAG STATE TERRORISM

BERLIN, 2011-06-26

Warning by lawyer Thorsten Van Geest:

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[PlaceboForte94]

@ausseratem

So ... in the end there wasn't a bomb you idiot.

[sweetgypsywife]

Fabulous video, and love the song, the first Leonard Cohen song I ever heard...intrigued me so much....and that opened a whole wonderful love for him, his poetry and his music.

[26201967]

tanks for this song grettings from denmark



[Samenkorn1]

great voice! i like Cohen!

[mrRobbancool]

Wow, a DC- 10 from the swedish airline company SAS Scandinavian Airline System

[BushWomanOtter]

@mrRobbancool John F. Kennnedy International Airport?

[Kalupke]

leonard cohen is just amazing.

he may not be the best singer but no one can sing his songs like him

[blowthingsup]

@Kalupke

eh, what you talking about his voice is fantastic

[Kalupke]

@blowthingsup

dont understand me wrong

i love his voice and his music and have heard e.g. versions of suzanne by joan baez and esther ofarim and there werent half as good as cohen but nevertheless he is not the greatest singer

[blowthingsup]

@Kalupke

describe 'great singer'

[TheOongaboonga]

Anthony Bourdain

[ISPANOS2001]

4 PEOPLE CLICKED ON THE WRONG BUTTON BY ACCIDENT . . .

[greengringo2003]

Here's what the new background lyrics are: Die Muzzie, die, die, Die Muzzie, die die! (repeat)

[enrica52]

@greengringo2003 How charming! Why do (N)ationalisms always attract dribbling lunatics....... Pathological, utterly, utterly pathological.

[maldelus]

Sounds like that which Islam is doing already.

[enrica52]

Disgusting to see Geller has embedded this video on her blog. Doubt very much Leonard would have any truck with a maniac currently trying to make New York = Texas....

C'mon New York you're way better than that!

Ask Whitman, O Hara and Oppen FFS!

[greengringo2003]

@enrica52 Go Muzzie, go! And then you lose. America WILL BE FREE OF ISLAM!

[georgemichael77]

As long as Leonard is singing the song is great. But I really dislike his background singers. I hope the won't spoil the concert.

[kaasfege]

sad thing is that liberty and truth are pretty rare in our world of today

[greengringo2003]

@kaasfege Look for November . . . you can see it from your house . . .

[eurydike]

this song is great.

[TheRealOzzie234]

This song is the testament of the individual lighting the fuse.... Cohen foresaw things to happen early...

[Tearaway1985]

i swear this song's about the Jewish!

[nicck]

@Tearaway1985 The song refers to the "naivety and narcissism" of the West German Red Army Faction, "...designer terrorism by celebrity terrorists, as much about radical chic as about real politics.

[Tiersch76]

Always great!

[vatonaught]

Great song, now I know why people listen to Leonard.

[vraxykykloma]

Nice clip, a very good song and nice coments by the uploader. You had me before the song was "buffed"

[tomcat561999]

superb

[legiongt]

u r a pen1s

[thomascrown559]

Genius comeback.  You must be an English professor.

[JamesBMotion]

Where are all these videos coming from? I've been searching for Leonard Cohen videos and finding stuff so obscure (like an interview in Latvia etc...) that I'm almost blown away! Someone ... hehe what am I saying ... I should put together a "rockumentary" or whatever you call it from all these clips.

[a1000kissesdeep]

@JamesBMotion This is from BBC 1988 documentary Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen, the opening track. The live version was recorded in Royal Albert Hall in May 1988.

[healedbyblues]

I prefer the Stevie Ray Vaughan Jennifer Warnes version

[superbrian113]

Never get tired of Cohen,,,

[animusicrecords]

Cohen is one of the greatest songfriters!!

[tuttt99]

In an eerie bit of foreshadowing, the beginning of the video crossfades from the World Trade Center to a wide body jet...

[kaasfege]

@tuttt99 :

you need to listen to the original soundtrack of "S-Express - Theme From S-Express ". There are just cover versions on youtube since the original is removed.

[ausseratem]

@tuttt99

Check my comment below with two important links -- DANGER OF FALSE FLAG (STATE) TERRORISM, BERLIN 2011-06-26 !!!

[isaidmurder]

@Miscllaneous Hahaha i've never laughed so hard in my life...

[AVPayno]

Great song!!

[GILZUR]

Amazing song

[jmmbrent]

i'm glad somebody posted this version. thanks alot

[pistoconcostilla]

Great!

[Lanarker]

This is great. Thank you!

[SplairginGlit]

Brilliant! Been looking for this for years. Thanks.

[CYRUS2060]

Excelent.Thank you.