He is portraying Joan of Arc as a bride and the fire that killed her as her lover... Cohen's lyrics are agonizing and beautiful... his talent for imagery is remarkable... Cohen has no peers
Any Pure French Maid for the Title Role? How about the Recent First RunnerUp Miss World? At least her French Blood came from the French Father Conquistador! The Mother has Great World Maidenhood.
Why is this man not our poet laureat? I feel he expresses many of mans' emotions in a way that many of us can understand, with simple verses put to a tune.
Ah ! what's not to adore, in St. Joan . ( deluded. or saint ? ) Glory & ,Innocence Shine in the eyes of a powerful, brave, young girl... Leonard Has Brought her back From The Flames. x
@doUcare4music ,,, the passion was from the catholic church, & french king... when leonard wrote this, women were considdered inferior.in the eyes, of church & State. just imagine back then in rural france.. a GIRL ! and a pesant too.How dare she attempt to command an army of ALL men.. She Did, ..She had to die for that
For what is my comment worth I stand behind it...What kind of being is mankind...who question everything...and only something greater has the answers..there has to be a god...the ultimate explanation...god is the color of mankind...and you can paint everything with it, and claim it was already painted...but ohh...how do we kill the self or public proclaimed prophets...it is not by physical death and later remorse...it is by killing ourselfs...doing nothing as they did(do) using god as an excuse
Music does not make one commit suicide. You have a choice whether you commit suicide or not. No one can stop you. That is your choice. but you are
wasting your own potential.
And you'll only come back to face whatever problems you chose not to face this time, again. You will be supported in whatever choice you make. Whatever choice you make. Peace.
Cohen empowers Joan of Arc in this song. The words have less to do with anything religious and more to do with humanity, particularly that of a woman who history reports as perhaps the first one having the psychological testicles to defy a patriarchal based world. Written off as crazy by men (yeah let's congratulate ourselves yet again, guys), Cohen gives her legend some credit and positivity in this song.
@Dwellsification: Cohen is using the story of Joan of Arc and the fire as a metaphor of the relationship between man and woman. The burning desire of the lover for the loved ultimately destroys her, leaving him cold and alone again. She in turn gladly sacrifices herself to him for the sake of love when she realises - too late - that he is fire and she is wood, she herself revelling in the glory of her sacrifice.
@Jaafar060550 I think that Cohen is using fire and wood as a metaphore as Her being wood and fire being God. But then again...what do we know...someone should ask him:) Take care!
@markobegus Perhaps, but since most of Cohen's songs are about failed and destructive male/female relationships I rather suspect that the religious symbolism is itself a metaphor for the profane... This is a song about a woman who has been destroyed (or whose individual identity has been destroyed?) by the comsuming passion of a man.
If songs like this were still made today, and people listened to them intently, then I think mankind would probably break down and cry at the sorry state it has become. Joan de'arquee was an amazing woman, and it takes an amazing man like Cohen to portray her with any kind of justice.
lstenng 2 ths song years ago '91 . it bgan i wz on journey 2 find perfection w/in, 2 share the results w/ALL people in the world by writing a book .that book was completing a life mission in '81 . i have yet to write it . so much has happened in my life . 2011 listening again, i feel that deep sense of love for the world . it's dificlt coming bak we r evolutionary spirits . in what is still the dawning of the 21st century . we need another joan, i am she, just 1 lightworker on the earth
the most eloquent spoken human being, if not one of. A man who feels sooo much..feels the world and knows how to grab just a piece of it and help us understand it and in this case joan and all the love and loyalty she had for her country as well as her people. What an amazing woman she was and thank you Mr. Cohen once again for giving us your words on the topic.
@TheComrad1975 i am christ becasue i can predict the future. My FAHTER said, the dammned are the damned, so now join me in paradise. and i said. you will only be damning yourself. and was set at the gate as a waringing.
The world villifies it's saviours when they are alive & makes them saints after they are dead. They then turn around & say, 'We would never have done that', while stoking the fire for the next victim.
@uclrichard, I don't understand anything about any war, so for me it is not the question whó burnt her, but it is a paradox that the ones who did this, made her a saint afterwards, so they múst have been convinced by something strange.
joan was betrayed by the french to the english...the english lost their superstitions and catholicism long before the french.. she is beyong prejudice...joan is anglo-french gay icon.
@Odor66 A matriarchal society is one where a woman rules. Therefore, in such a society, women do matter.
Regardless, to prefer the company of only one of the sexes - whether your own or the other one - shows something is broken. Thus, legitimate questions can be asked. (Such as: Was Jesus a woman hater? Was he gay? Was Joan of Arc a man? Was she a nymphomaniac? Was either of them bitterly disappointed? Was either of them utterly sick? Were they paradoxical recluses?)
PART 1 of 2) When I was a little boy I saw a vision. My brother said it was merely the reflection of light against a mirror. Yet, that night, I heard a gentle voice say, "come to me my son". I replied, "tell me how", what must I do?". I did not hear tha voice til years later. As a man I was unhappy with my marriage and I did not spend time with my son. I was rich beyond all expectation and yet nothing gave me happiness. My heart was cold and my sould was empty...see part 2 below)
Part 2) One day I stood at the same place where I saw the vision as a child. I closed my eyes and asked in silence, How to I come to you?" I heard the voice say, "Love your wife, love your child, give of your money and you will find the path to my house". I did as the voice asked..I held my wife's hand and I played with my son ...and when I was sick, my son came to me and told me he loved me. My wife stayed with me throughout my bout cancer... I was happy and I had a full life..Find your vision
@internetsnaptmijnie yes, but don't blame the english....they didn't burn her. the french aristocracy and the catholic church did - and then they hyprocritally made her a saint.
God revelead himself unto man. In many forms. His glory. Im a muslim. His cruelty, the true imagae of god, cest christian. JESUS christ was a saloir, when he walked upon the water. A kingdom. A KINGDOM.
I guess a beautiful melody and powerful lyrics are universally loved by all peoples, all religions and all cultures. Thank you Leonard Cohen for bringing all of us together as we listen to your beautiful song
Saint Joan Of Arc The Greatest Christian Martyr Ever She Sacrificed Her Pious Life For Words Of GOD And For The Freedom of A Great Nation Called France.May Jesus Christ Son Of God Bless Her Soul
@rcrellen1980 People back then didn't identify themselves as "French." They would simply tell you which local village they were from. The area we know today as France was not yet united, as they were locked in a bloody civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians. Jeanne's place of birth, Domremy, did not become an official part of France until the 1700's.
@Leylathegreat if she wasn't French...and everyone including the Historians are wrong..why did decide to lead France to war against England?...apart from Divine Intervention? Officially or unofficially she was as French as Foie Gras!
@rcrellen1980 If you look you will see that my reply was to @Anquetil79, who said he was proud Jeanne was burned with wood from his country, because he hates the French, and that they are trying to force everyone to be like France. My remark was intended to show the man he is uneducated and ignorant. His comment has since been deleted by youtube, making my reply to him look random.
la canzone narra dlla fine di Giovanna, il momento durante il quale viene messa al rogo, ed il Faber narra questa scena personificando il fuoco, così da trarne un dialogo tra questo e Giovanna, e concludendo la scena in un avvolgersi, un unirsi come in matrimonio, tra il fuoco el'eroina che "doveva essere il legno".Ho visto la smorfia del suo dolore
ho visto la gloria nel suo sguardo raggiante,
anche io vorrei luce ed amore
ma se arriva deve essere sempre così crudele e accecante.
Jeanne was a great christian but unfortunately she was an even more ardent nationalist. I don't know how anyone can see anything good in this. Needless to say I don't swallow all the bs about the visions.
@chavrons1 Not really. All sorts of people with all sorts of mental diseases have visions. People taking lsd have visions. People who are chronically sleep deprived have vsions. It's not that rare. What I find difficult to swallow is anyone talking directly to God. Impossible in my view since there is no such thing. Cheers.
I'm not talking about those with mental Illnesses Zapkvr as that is all you can understand. Yet we do have very real psychics. She wasn't talking to God, she had a connection up to the Saints, who carry a genetic lineage.
Learn about the Pineal Gland Zapkvr and the third eye. The eye of the pyramid.
It's very easy for those to be sceptics when they work on their left side of the brain and cannot use their Empath Centre which is on the right.
If people have a different makeup to your makeup Zapkvr, they are put into the too hard basket and wrongly labelled as mentally ill, because it's something that is not explainable to many people. The empath centre is within our Pineal gland. If that works well, it opens the third eye. Learn about it. It's a medical known fact, as years ago much was unknown.
Puke away then. Obviously you have never studied medicine, but you even denounce doctors and scientific discoveries. No wonder those in society fail at school, they refuse to learn and study.
Nothing to do with this song, but songs can be good for you don't get me wrong most of the time it IS but it can also be dangerous (again nothing to do with this song :P)
This story song is nice and so is Leonard Cohen :)
Magical...Sheer Poetry by 'Laughing Lenny' Cohen. lol...Y'know they used to say his music was: "Music to slit your wrists to...!"~ But THEY had obviously never heard any songs by Slipknot (shudders)...!
Betrayed by her own people she has lead to victory,sold to the Goddam Pagan Barbarian English. Those whom don't learn from the history are doomed to repeat it.I love all of you. Life is a daily miracle.
@artmanrom as a member of the pagan barbarian (Celts), please leave us out of this eminently monotheistic debate. Great song, as are they all. The man can't write a duff note.
@TheFriedLiverAttack Yes, It's written as a love poem to and from the fire. It shows her acceptance and desire to be finally released/ consumated and consumed by her fate - Both in the literal flames and the metaphorical flames of her own overwhelming religious vision, ~or divine madness, if you will.
@IronyValue My best regards to your Trickster Woodsy Lord,also to the ravishing brave Victoria whose glorious sacrifice was crucial help for Garret in order to defeat the fanatic Karas and put end at his Metal Age,saving the whole humanity once again from total extinction.I love all of you.Life is a daily miracle.
@artmanrom ROFL....Pagan Barbarian English? - Love it - And, speaking as one of the aforementioned Pagan Barbarian English, I will quote a very funny and wise Irish comedian (Dave Allen) and say: "May Your God go with You...!" <3
Juana de Arco (6 de enero de 1412 – 30 de mayo de 1431) fue una heroína, militar y santa francesa. Su festividad se celebra el día del aniversario de su muerte, como es tradición en la Iglesia Católica, el 30 de mayo... HOY!
Su historia me impresionó (muy buenas las películas). Mi admiración a todas las Juanas de Arcos de nuestros días, mujeres valientes, vigorosas y con una gran fe!
She sure looks like one of the novice nuns to be in the vid Souer Soarire Dominque 1957 - 1963. Two girls that could pass for twins bobbing their heads in the back of a limo. Want to know more about them? Of course not. One became the one and only France Gall (nun on hold) and the other Francoise Hardy number 2. Franny Hardy (also known as Rose as exchanged with an Iris) is blind. The 2 do vids together. She never got over a beating. She's with Jesus now.
It may be that the reason that Tori Amos had wanted to play Joan of Arc is that she had gone to nun school 1968 in Belgium with the woman also known as The Singing Nun. 1969 She did The Nun's Story script with Audrey Hepburn to show she was leaving the nunnery as assigned in Africa. She was told to fill out forms then tell Jesus. She didn't tell Jesus. I love the ending here which shows the Wonderful angel pulling Joan out of the flames to take her to a safe place.
Tori Amos that's the name of the above actress although she is known by dozens of other alias. To play Joan of Arc twice within 14 yrs what are the chances of this? Good thing she is still alive. After this movie, I do believe she went on to do some more Sissel compostions...rite. This is such a catchy song. It makes me feel like spreading wings to fly slowly through clouds. I've rocked my arms like an angel over and over again like an angel over fire. It's a most wonderful feeling
Mistake in type. She didn't try to replace the firstborn Royal. She tried to displace a non royal not first born with the first tborn. Lore has it that she survived. Whether she was like a Highlander that could die and resurface as a human or whatever...she went back to England...or so some say. Elsie Wigle was cousin to the late Queen Mother. It's just gossip.
What is to be said of Joan? She fought to replace the first born tied to France, England, Scotland, Ireland onto the throne of France. She was a Royal cousin...rite? Daniel's prophecy was still running which requirfed 2520 years to pass of Gentile rule "Uninterrupted". Does it help Cohen for the actress to die in the fire? Iit wasn't the first x she had played Joan of Arc. She did her 1968 Her court case was in Latin as written down by the Catholic Church.
I'm not too familiar with the story of Joan of arc, perhaps because beeing a jew, but I think that this is absolute piece of art - the way Cohen made such a romantic, touching love song out of that tragic event. A dialog between Joan and the fire consuming her (humanized as her lover) - who else could had thought about it?!
I believe Cohen stands in a league of his own, there is no other poet \ singer out there to challenge his title.
Well... I don't know if being a jew as something to do with that. Joan Of Arc really existed. It's part of History. She said hearing God speaking to her and she declare war to feed the nation. They considered she was a witch so they burned her.
@86shay86 Joan of arc is a caracter of french history, she belong to all the people of France, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddists or those who have no God in their soul...
@weepingboy i dont think his being jewish has anything to do with this, if he had been born into a christian or atheist family he probably would've had the same songwriting abilities and tendencies
@dirksnider A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165
This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.
The mark of a great poet is that they can extol anything with great beauty, regardless of denomination, creed or culture....in this light your comment seems a little strange and out of place! In any case, Cohen extols, if indeed that is what he is doing, Joan of Arc as a feminine hero, rather than a Christian one, and he is writing as a man, rather than a Jew.
@Thelittleonesaid ,,, do u know, his nanny was a catholic.. a very strong catholic,, she oftrn prayed for leonard as a boy. hoping he would be saved :D .. this must have had an influence on a young boy. His intelligence and Poetry are all his (brilliant ) own.
LC, the lonely poet, has the unique ability to bring 'down to earth' heroes and myths (like King David in Hallelujah, and JA in this song) , and by the same time - to lift up unknown people to the highest levels possible on earth. Bravo.
this kid i knew once called leonard a Jew and i punched him in the mouth i mean where i come from you dont call a person a jew unless they done something really bad.
Sweet beauty, I hunger for you. We linger between darkness and light, we all hunger for what we do not know Your bright light burns so oh sweet beauty i hunger for you. I have looked for you in my darkest dreams, my wet dreams, my nightmares, oh sweet beauty I hunger for you, i lust for you, I burn for you oh sweet beauty I would die for you
a beautiful song from a beautiful man....
tonytherapy 5 days ago
He is portraying Joan of Arc as a bride and the fire that killed her as her lover... Cohen's lyrics are agonizing and beautiful... his talent for imagery is remarkable... Cohen has no peers
JerichoDitch2 2 weeks ago
kasuj A i dawaj na TNT
dudilek11 2 weeks ago
Wonder Upon Why a Polish Sick Obese Maiden Got the Quick Canonization Over Her Bloody Courageous Campaign??
benny8hill 2 weeks ago
Any Pure French Maid for the Title Role? How about the Recent First RunnerUp Miss World? At least her French Blood came from the French Father Conquistador! The Mother has Great World Maidenhood.
benny8hill 2 weeks ago
Why is this man not our poet laureat? I feel he expresses many of mans' emotions in a way that many of us can understand, with simple verses put to a tune.
buzett 3 weeks ago
justin beiber is music to slit your wrists to. leonard's music is life affirming
styxcreek 1 month ago
The wine is bad, a sudden depression set in...... great song
joeeuro2 1 month ago
Outstanding! Angel voice of 12 years old girl!
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DrTechnoHorror 1 month ago
Great song ....just hung the cat and slit my wrists - hope I live long enough to hear the end of this video
cfsexplorer01 1 month ago
@cfsexplorer01 stop it lol
TheDan5651 1 month ago
this is my favourite song from lenny cohen, it is pure genius
jojony20 2 months ago
Simply Awesome thanks for posting
FringeDwellers 2 months ago 2
Ah ! what's not to adore, in St. Joan . ( deluded. or saint ? ) Glory & ,Innocence Shine in the eyes of a powerful, brave, young girl... Leonard Has Brought her back From The Flames. x
doUcare4music 2 months ago
@doUcare4music ,,, the passion was from the catholic church, & french king... when leonard wrote this, women were considdered inferior.in the eyes, of church & State. just imagine back then in rural france.. a GIRL ! and a pesant too.How dare she attempt to command an army of ALL men.. She Did, ..She had to die for that
doUcare4music 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
For what is my comment worth I stand behind it...What kind of being is mankind...who question everything...and only something greater has the answers..there has to be a god...the ultimate explanation...god is the color of mankind...and you can paint everything with it, and claim it was already painted...but ohh...how do we kill the self or public proclaimed prophets...it is not by physical death and later remorse...it is by killing ourselfs...doing nothing as they did(do) using god as an excuse
markobegus 2 months ago
I used to sing Joan of Arc in French in Israel.
I always wondered if Cohen really made love with Joan of Arc, Janis Joplin, or the Queen of England Victoria.
davidorbachmusic 2 months ago
Good tune, but the video is wack.
kidcopernicus 2 months ago
I remember reading some time ago that Leonard Cohen considered this song the best he ever wrote. He always was a master of considered understatement.
purplepelican69 2 months ago 2
maryrs must spill there life blood to purify and quench our rotten cinder of souls
briodyjohnsean 2 months ago
Music does not make one commit suicide. You have a choice whether you commit suicide or not. No one can stop you. That is your choice. but you are
wasting your own potential.
And you'll only come back to face whatever problems you chose not to face this time, again. You will be supported in whatever choice you make. Whatever choice you make. Peace.
DobsonAnna 2 months ago
Music to commit suicide by...
crazeygrazey 2 months ago
Beautiful song, until one thinks of the barbarism of Joan's fate.
goback3spaces 3 months ago
Cohen empowers Joan of Arc in this song. The words have less to do with anything religious and more to do with humanity, particularly that of a woman who history reports as perhaps the first one having the psychological testicles to defy a patriarchal based world. Written off as crazy by men (yeah let's congratulate ourselves yet again, guys), Cohen gives her legend some credit and positivity in this song.
Dwellsification 3 months ago 3
@Dwellsification: Cohen is using the story of Joan of Arc and the fire as a metaphor of the relationship between man and woman. The burning desire of the lover for the loved ultimately destroys her, leaving him cold and alone again. She in turn gladly sacrifices herself to him for the sake of love when she realises - too late - that he is fire and she is wood, she herself revelling in the glory of her sacrifice.
Jaafar060550 3 months ago 3
@Jaafar060550 I think that Cohen is using fire and wood as a metaphore as Her being wood and fire being God. But then again...what do we know...someone should ask him:) Take care!
markobegus 2 months ago
@markobegus Perhaps, but since most of Cohen's songs are about failed and destructive male/female relationships I rather suspect that the religious symbolism is itself a metaphor for the profane... This is a song about a woman who has been destroyed (or whose individual identity has been destroyed?) by the comsuming passion of a man.
Jaafar060550 2 months ago
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markobegus 2 months ago
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?
Jaafar060550 3 months ago
"If he was fire, oh then she must be wood"
If songs like this were still made today, and people listened to them intently, then I think mankind would probably break down and cry at the sorry state it has become. Joan de'arquee was an amazing woman, and it takes an amazing man like Cohen to portray her with any kind of justice.
KingOfMartyrTown 4 months ago 7
lstenng 2 ths song years ago '91 . it bgan i wz on journey 2 find perfection w/in, 2 share the results w/ALL people in the world by writing a book .that book was completing a life mission in '81 . i have yet to write it . so much has happened in my life . 2011 listening again, i feel that deep sense of love for the world . it's dificlt coming bak we r evolutionary spirits . in what is still the dawning of the 21st century . we need another joan, i am she, just 1 lightworker on the earth
311camille 4 months ago
@311camille
This almost made sense.
Dwellsification 3 months ago
weepingboy is right this is a true poet, one who will live through history as a great master. I bow in his presence
writerman242 5 months ago 3
Un grand poète. J'aurais bien aimé l'avoir écouté chanter en Français.
Oldfaithful61 5 months ago
the most eloquent spoken human being, if not one of. A man who feels sooo much..feels the world and knows how to grab just a piece of it and help us understand it and in this case joan and all the love and loyalty she had for her country as well as her people. What an amazing woman she was and thank you Mr. Cohen once again for giving us your words on the topic.
alvas86 5 months ago 2
lyrics to die for ... for Joan.. !!!
superheroger 5 months ago
Giles de Rais---serial killer of old.
mallducklard 5 months ago
my body to thee giles de raise, for anyone staying up late.
duncangray2011 6 months ago
i am no carpanter. no an ring bearer.
duncangray2011 6 months ago
stupid bitches, you must not know about giles de raise, well let me tell you i loved him and gave him my body.
duncangray2011 6 months ago
@duncangray2011 what kind of medicines do u take
TheComrad1975 6 months ago
@TheComrad1975 i am christ becasue i can predict the future. My FAHTER said, the dammned are the damned, so now join me in paradise. and i said. you will only be damning yourself. and was set at the gate as a waringing.
duncangray2011 6 months ago
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desertra1 6 months ago
@duncangray2011 Your father should have taught you to spell. Ignoramus.
desertra1 6 months ago
I love Saint Joan de Arc ... Sam ,play as time goes bye
zappadead13 6 months ago
The world villifies it's saviours when they are alive & makes them saints after they are dead. They then turn around & say, 'We would never have done that', while stoking the fire for the next victim.
garydean777 7 months ago
@uclrichard, I don't understand anything about any war, so for me it is not the question whó burnt her, but it is a paradox that the ones who did this, made her a saint afterwards, so they múst have been convinced by something strange.
internetsnaptmijnie 7 months ago
mary tudor burned 290 joan of arcs in the space of 2 summers. they were all english and they were all protestant.
uclrichard 7 months ago
joan was betrayed by the french to the english...the english lost their superstitions and catholicism long before the french.. she is beyong prejudice...joan is anglo-french gay icon.
uclrichard 7 months ago
@Odor66 A matriarchal society is one where a woman rules. Therefore, in such a society, women do matter.
Regardless, to prefer the company of only one of the sexes - whether your own or the other one - shows something is broken. Thus, legitimate questions can be asked. (Such as: Was Jesus a woman hater? Was he gay? Was Joan of Arc a man? Was she a nymphomaniac? Was either of them bitterly disappointed? Was either of them utterly sick? Were they paradoxical recluses?)
oYoYebutu 8 months ago
PART 1 of 2) When I was a little boy I saw a vision. My brother said it was merely the reflection of light against a mirror. Yet, that night, I heard a gentle voice say, "come to me my son". I replied, "tell me how", what must I do?". I did not hear tha voice til years later. As a man I was unhappy with my marriage and I did not spend time with my son. I was rich beyond all expectation and yet nothing gave me happiness. My heart was cold and my sould was empty...see part 2 below)
weepingboy3 8 months ago in playlist nora foss
Part 2) One day I stood at the same place where I saw the vision as a child. I closed my eyes and asked in silence, How to I come to you?" I heard the voice say, "Love your wife, love your child, give of your money and you will find the path to my house". I did as the voice asked..I held my wife's hand and I played with my son ...and when I was sick, my son came to me and told me he loved me. My wife stayed with me throughout my bout cancer... I was happy and I had a full life..Find your vision
weepingboy3 8 months ago in playlist nora foss
It is said that the heart of Joan of arc was found unburned between her ashes...
internetsnaptmijnie 8 months ago
@internetsnaptmijnie Yes. Maybe, it was. I hope so!
TedMichaelMorgan 8 months ago
@internetsnaptmijnie yes, but don't blame the english....they didn't burn her. the french aristocracy and the catholic church did - and then they hyprocritally made her a saint.
uclrichard 7 months ago
What was joan of arc last words, Christ my body to thee. Can you remember the beginneing? so shall it be in the end.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
Why did both Jesus Christ and Joan of Arc enjoy so much/only the company of men?
oYoYebutu 8 months ago
Myself, I longed for love and light
But must it come so cruel
And oh, so bright?
These words make me cry every time I hear them.
taeqisage 8 months ago
God revelead himself unto man. In many forms. His glory. Im a muslim. His cruelty, the true imagae of god, cest christian. JESUS christ was a saloir, when he walked upon the water. A kingdom. A KINGDOM.
TheBlindPig1 8 months ago
I guess a beautiful melody and powerful lyrics are universally loved by all peoples, all religions and all cultures. Thank you Leonard Cohen for bringing all of us together as we listen to your beautiful song
weepingboy3 9 months ago 3
I love how he blends Jewish Kabbalistic mysticism and Catholic bride of Christ mysticism
AnotherCuppaCoffee 10 months ago
preciosa cancion.
impresionante voz
elbohas 11 months ago 4
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JESUS BLESSED SAINT JOAN
saccyind 11 months ago
JESUS BLESSES SAINT JOAN
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Saint Joan Of Arc The Greatest Christian Martyr Ever She Sacrificed Her Pious Life For Words Of GOD And For The Freedom of A Great Nation Called France.May Jesus Christ Son Of God Bless Her Soul
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I am proud it was us in Normandy who burned her alive with quality Norman wood in our beautiful city Rouen.
The French can fuck off, we Normans will never be French.
Anquetil79 1 year ago
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Leylathegreat 11 months ago
@Leylathegreat she was born in France..is a French National Heroine..so what nationality was she? Viva Cohen...poet laureate
rcrellen1980 10 months ago
@rcrellen1980 People back then didn't identify themselves as "French." They would simply tell you which local village they were from. The area we know today as France was not yet united, as they were locked in a bloody civil war between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians. Jeanne's place of birth, Domremy, did not become an official part of France until the 1700's.
Leylathegreat 10 months ago
@Leylathegreat if she wasn't French...and everyone including the Historians are wrong..why did decide to lead France to war against England?...apart from Divine Intervention? Officially or unofficially she was as French as Foie Gras!
rcrellen1980 10 months ago
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Leylathegreat 10 months ago
@rcrellen1980 If you look you will see that my reply was to @Anquetil79, who said he was proud Jeanne was burned with wood from his country, because he hates the French, and that they are trying to force everyone to be like France. My remark was intended to show the man he is uneducated and ignorant. His comment has since been deleted by youtube, making my reply to him look random.
Leylathegreat 10 months ago 3
@Leylathegreat
Sending 528 love beats against the zionists.
pensivethought 10 months ago
@Leylathegreat
Same place where De Gaulle came from:)
pensivethought 10 months ago
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pearl387 10 months ago
A nice mix with the movie
Tamzon22 1 year ago 3
I came , I found & I went .
spankbandit 1 year ago
happy birthday to you saint joan
nosowisewoman 1 year ago
la canzone narra dlla fine di Giovanna, il momento durante il quale viene messa al rogo, ed il Faber narra questa scena personificando il fuoco, così da trarne un dialogo tra questo e Giovanna, e concludendo la scena in un avvolgersi, un unirsi come in matrimonio, tra il fuoco el'eroina che "doveva essere il legno".Ho visto la smorfia del suo dolore
ho visto la gloria nel suo sguardo raggiante,
anche io vorrei luce ed amore
ma se arriva deve essere sempre così crudele e accecante.
ciccacarmen1 1 year ago
This man makes me think there is something the beyond ..... the beyond.
jeannotcamel 1 year ago 4
Nice one. I remember watching that Joan of Arc movie on tv they took this footage from. Leelee Sobieski's first role I think..
christbait 1 year ago
Beautiful
evabaker28 1 year ago 5
Jeanne was a great christian but unfortunately she was an even more ardent nationalist. I don't know how anyone can see anything good in this. Needless to say I don't swallow all the bs about the visions.
zapkvr 1 year ago
@zapkvr
I've had visions all through my life. Of course for those that don't it's very hard to believe.
chavrons1 1 year ago
@chavrons1 Not really. All sorts of people with all sorts of mental diseases have visions. People taking lsd have visions. People who are chronically sleep deprived have vsions. It's not that rare. What I find difficult to swallow is anyone talking directly to God. Impossible in my view since there is no such thing. Cheers.
zapkvr 1 year ago
@zapkvr
I'm not talking about those with mental Illnesses Zapkvr as that is all you can understand. Yet we do have very real psychics. She wasn't talking to God, she had a connection up to the Saints, who carry a genetic lineage.
Learn about the Pineal Gland Zapkvr and the third eye. The eye of the pyramid.
It's very easy for those to be sceptics when they work on their left side of the brain and cannot use their Empath Centre which is on the right.
chavrons1 1 year ago
@chavrons1 Oh for God's sake!!!! Pineal gland myA*SE. You hippies make me wanna puke!
zapkvr 1 year ago
@zapkvr
If people have a different makeup to your makeup Zapkvr, they are put into the too hard basket and wrongly labelled as mentally ill, because it's something that is not explainable to many people. The empath centre is within our Pineal gland. If that works well, it opens the third eye. Learn about it. It's a medical known fact, as years ago much was unknown.
chavrons1 1 year ago
@zapkvr
Puke away then. Obviously you have never studied medicine, but you even denounce doctors and scientific discoveries. No wonder those in society fail at school, they refuse to learn and study.
chavrons1 1 year ago
@chavrons1 You idiot. Where did I denounce doctors? What the hell are you smoking anyway?
zapkvr 1 year ago
@zapkvr
I give TROLLS A WIDE BIRTH>
chavrons1 1 year ago
@chavrons1 That's BERTH bonehead. Sheesh you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off!
zapkvr 1 year ago
Great Great Song Allways loved Leonard from the first day I listened to his music,Hope his music AFFECTS others as it did for me
SaffaKev 1 year ago 3
some men loved her like the virgin mary because theyre mysoginists at heart. full stop.,
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
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I'd rape the shit out of that hot piece of ass!
CaptainButtock 1 year ago
wow melancholy can be such a beautiful thing - at least if it is being to estheticized
wildhias 1 year ago 2
allways the poser never the posesed
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
Wow this is amazing, I adore the historial figure that is Joan of Arc. Leonard's song is a tribute to her surely, beautiful thank you x
Premleise 1 year ago
Nothing to do with this song, but songs can be good for you don't get me wrong most of the time it IS but it can also be dangerous (again nothing to do with this song :P)
This story song is nice and so is Leonard Cohen :)
Practona 1 year ago
prince joan prince john..
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
im nothing except id die for the truth.
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
@TheFriedLiverAttack But every man or woman has their own Truth...! ^^
PaulusAlone 1 year ago
Magical...Sheer Poetry by 'Laughing Lenny' Cohen. lol...Y'know they used to say his music was: "Music to slit your wrists to...!"~ But THEY had obviously never heard any songs by Slipknot (shudders)...!
PaulusAlone 1 year ago
Betrayed by her own people she has lead to victory,sold to the Goddam Pagan Barbarian English. Those whom don't learn from the history are doomed to repeat it.I love all of you. Life is a daily miracle.
artmanrom 1 year ago
@artmanrom as a member of the pagan barbarian (Celts), please leave us out of this eminently monotheistic debate. Great song, as are they all. The man can't write a duff note.
IronyValue 1 year ago 2
@IronyValue Yep, Agreed. What you said...! ^_~
PaulusAlone 1 year ago
@PaulusAlone did you get it joan of arc slaughter every man child amongst them then leaped to the fireers firey boosm
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
@TheFriedLiverAttack Yes, It's written as a love poem to and from the fire. It shows her acceptance and desire to be finally released/ consumated and consumed by her fate - Both in the literal flames and the metaphorical flames of her own overwhelming religious vision, ~or divine madness, if you will.
PaulusAlone 1 year ago
@IronyValue My best regards to your Trickster Woodsy Lord,also to the ravishing brave Victoria whose glorious sacrifice was crucial help for Garret in order to defeat the fanatic Karas and put end at his Metal Age,saving the whole humanity once again from total extinction.I love all of you.Life is a daily miracle.
artmanrom 1 year ago
@artmanrom ROFL....Pagan Barbarian English? - Love it - And, speaking as one of the aforementioned Pagan Barbarian English, I will quote a very funny and wise Irish comedian (Dave Allen) and say: "May Your God go with You...!" <3
PaulusAlone 1 year ago
thats sweet but giles de rais is even sweeter.
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago
la pucelle she sold her self short.
TheFriedLiverAttack 1 year ago 2
Un autre bel exemple de la grande poésie ...!
pierrotlunaire100 1 year ago 5
after all these years...this song still makes my hair stand up
GBStuff 1 year ago 2
Juana de Arco (6 de enero de 1412 – 30 de mayo de 1431) fue una heroína, militar y santa francesa. Su festividad se celebra el día del aniversario de su muerte, como es tradición en la Iglesia Católica, el 30 de mayo... HOY!
Su historia me impresionó (muy buenas las películas). Mi admiración a todas las Juanas de Arcos de nuestros días, mujeres valientes, vigorosas y con una gran fe!
"DANKE DIIIIR!!!"
HerrManquepierda 1 year ago
I'm a christian and i love this.
hadenough996 1 year ago
@hadenough996
whats christianity, or any other religion for that matter, got to do with this? this is of universal beauty!
catlet1961 1 year ago 3
no comment....
laurence1201 1 year ago 2
His songs are uplifting.Love his concerts too.
caravaneriam 1 year ago 2
Love this
hadenough996 1 year ago 4
Beautiful....in every way. Nothing more to add.
brism32 1 year ago 6
fabrizio de andre' giovanna d'arco.
GrandiLive 1 year ago
great share yeahsee..way too cool! thanx.
Ravensclaws1 1 year ago 3
Beautiful
yeahsee33 1 year ago 7
She sure looks like one of the novice nuns to be in the vid Souer Soarire Dominque 1957 - 1963. Two girls that could pass for twins bobbing their heads in the back of a limo. Want to know more about them? Of course not. One became the one and only France Gall (nun on hold) and the other Francoise Hardy number 2. Franny Hardy (also known as Rose as exchanged with an Iris) is blind. The 2 do vids together. She never got over a beating. She's with Jesus now.
iriswigle 1 year ago
It may be that the reason that Tori Amos had wanted to play Joan of Arc is that she had gone to nun school 1968 in Belgium with the woman also known as The Singing Nun. 1969 She did The Nun's Story script with Audrey Hepburn to show she was leaving the nunnery as assigned in Africa. She was told to fill out forms then tell Jesus. She didn't tell Jesus. I love the ending here which shows the Wonderful angel pulling Joan out of the flames to take her to a safe place.
iriswigle 1 year ago
Tori Amos that's the name of the above actress although she is known by dozens of other alias. To play Joan of Arc twice within 14 yrs what are the chances of this? Good thing she is still alive. After this movie, I do believe she went on to do some more Sissel compostions...rite. This is such a catchy song. It makes me feel like spreading wings to fly slowly through clouds. I've rocked my arms like an angel over and over again like an angel over fire. It's a most wonderful feeling
iriswigle 1 year ago
Mistake in type. She didn't try to replace the firstborn Royal. She tried to displace a non royal not first born with the first tborn. Lore has it that she survived. Whether she was like a Highlander that could die and resurface as a human or whatever...she went back to England...or so some say. Elsie Wigle was cousin to the late Queen Mother. It's just gossip.
iriswigle 1 year ago
What is to be said of Joan? She fought to replace the first born tied to France, England, Scotland, Ireland onto the throne of France. She was a Royal cousin...rite? Daniel's prophecy was still running which requirfed 2520 years to pass of Gentile rule "Uninterrupted". Does it help Cohen for the actress to die in the fire? Iit wasn't the first x she had played Joan of Arc. She did her 1968 Her court case was in Latin as written down by the Catholic Church.
iriswigle 1 year ago
Magnifique chanson. Merci monsieur Cohen...
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MrOldSadManAndHisDog 1 year ago
surely must be made of wood
garfus2 1 year ago 2
Myself, I long for love and light. But must it come so cruel and oh so bright?
xplaydead666 1 year ago 2
Joan of Arc, I humbly share your sufferings and pride. Thank you so much Mr Cohen.
Malleck1 2 years ago 3
Lindo! Maravilhoso! Emocionante!
ivykuns 2 years ago 12
he took christ crown and placed it upon his own
azazel637 2 years ago
and he placed the crown upon joan of arc
azazel637 2 years ago
for the flames she couldent hold...
azazel637 2 years ago
This is poetry if anything is
ArthurMcBride 2 years ago 19
@ArthurMcBride the version made by fabrizio the andré is even more poetic, in my op.. sure, u have to know italian ;)
alessandragerarda 2 years ago
Those girls are beautiful.
VegaEtereo 2 years ago
Genius in he
TheKINGFEDOR 2 years ago 5
I'm not too familiar with the story of Joan of arc, perhaps because beeing a jew, but I think that this is absolute piece of art - the way Cohen made such a romantic, touching love song out of that tragic event. A dialog between Joan and the fire consuming her (humanized as her lover) - who else could had thought about it?!
I believe Cohen stands in a league of his own, there is no other poet \ singer out there to challenge his title.
86shay86 2 years ago 14
Well... I don't know if being a jew as something to do with that. Joan Of Arc really existed. It's part of History. She said hearing God speaking to her and she declare war to feed the nation. They considered she was a witch so they burned her.
kreatoer 2 years ago 2
I know Its a real story :) I just mentioned I'm not well versed of it.
86shay86 2 years ago
@86shay86 Joan of arc is a caracter of french history, she belong to all the people of France, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddists or those who have no God in their soul...
Darodh 9 months ago
I was just in Rouen were the BBQ was.
Bad news: No ashes were seeen
ankhfkhonsu 2 years ago
Well it has been a while!
malgray2 2 years ago
Good!
I'm a man next to you, Joan of Arc...
Iwanjka, Luna'y
LunaXme 2 years ago
Jewish poets can extol Christian heros with such great beauty and hearth felt emotion........Leanard, you're the best of them
weepingboy 2 years ago 30
@weepingboy -he's digging a bit deeper if you see Joan as any human who strives only to find we are made of the 4 elements and a soul.
RasMajnouni 2 years ago
@weepingboy beautifuly put man
stuart7034 1 year ago
@weepingboy i dont think his being jewish has anything to do with this, if he had been born into a christian or atheist family he probably would've had the same songwriting abilities and tendencies
Rnewmanguy 1 year ago 3
@weepingboy What does being Jewish have to do with anything?
azione 1 year ago 18
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because him being jewish is the only thing i don't like about cohen.
lol
dirksnider 1 year ago
@dirksnider A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165
This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.
countdumas 1 year ago
@countdumas
a new movement in which there is no concealment , only painful truth , is long overdue.
it can only be achieved by isolation.
dirksnider 1 year ago
@azione What does having to asking that question say about you?
delepine 5 months ago
@delepine woops let me try again
What does having you ask that question say about you...
delepine 5 months ago
A propos d'une femme solitaire dans un monde d'homme
Fatiguée de se battre...
Le plus bel hommage qu'il ait pu se faire pour elles
loutre373 4 months ago
@weepingboy Hmm... what are other examples except Cohen?
betlamed 1 year ago
@betlamed
Dylan I suppose
lingardwillems 1 year ago
@weepingboy
The mark of a great poet is that they can extol anything with great beauty, regardless of denomination, creed or culture....in this light your comment seems a little strange and out of place! In any case, Cohen extols, if indeed that is what he is doing, Joan of Arc as a feminine hero, rather than a Christian one, and he is writing as a man, rather than a Jew.
Thelittleonesaid 9 months ago 26
@Thelittleonesaid He became a zen monk.
liagarden 4 months ago
@liagarden
Yes....and wrote later....."I have no gift for spiritual matters" :)
Thelittleonesaid 4 months ago
@Thelittleonesaid ,,, do u know, his nanny was a catholic.. a very strong catholic,, she oftrn prayed for leonard as a boy. hoping he would be saved :D .. this must have had an influence on a young boy. His intelligence and Poetry are all his (brilliant ) own.
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@doUcare4music.....Interesting, I didn't know that; thanks for filling me in! Peace!
Thelittleonesaid 2 months ago
I told you so...enjoy...
johnjarvo 2 years ago
A good mate of mine sent this for me to listen to. I knew nothing of this guy other than "he writes songs to slash your wrists to".
A bit unfair but this IS pretty quirky stuff.
I intend to return to it regularly to see if it grows on me. Who knows I could end up being a Leonard Cohen officianado!
phicro55 2 years ago 9
LC, the lonely poet, has the unique ability to bring 'down to earth' heroes and myths (like King David in Hallelujah, and JA in this song) , and by the same time - to lift up unknown people to the highest levels possible on earth. Bravo.
wolkowy1 2 years ago 17
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this kid i knew once called leonard a Jew and i punched him in the mouth i mean where i come from you dont call a person a jew unless they done something really bad.
azazel637 2 years ago
leonard cohen is a jew and he made this song. that's not so bad, is it?
finkel90 2 years ago 2
SuperBluehaze 2 years ago 2
Oh sweet beauty, I hunger for you bright light.
We tread out this dusy path, star dust,
we hunger for that which we can only glimpse,
but never touch.
Oh sweet beauty, I hunger,
star light, dust,
moon light, tender beauty,
I hunger.
lost between another place and nowhere,oh sweet beauty,
I hunger, I lust, for you
SuperBluehaze 2 years ago 2
they never reach the t
moon
weewill32 2 years ago
On a humorous note, I wond