Leonard Cohen - Master Song

[MyCosmo2]

sorry, you have missed the point. the song is cear and simple. listen to the backround

sounds ( music) and all will be reveled

[nooneuknowhere66]

To far advanced for the people of your time to actually enjoy you

[liagarden]

And, the end. I still wonder if you can ask too much of life, and be so ruined by disappointment. LC sang my life to me....and now, in old age, we look alike, sound alike. Your sexuality will leave someday, then it is time, like LC to become a Zen monk (or nun.) Look up tonight. It's almost a full moon. Make sure you get some moonbeams on you. How many more full moons do you have left? We all know it will end someday--we just don't know when.

[liagarden]

....more: Playing far too rough for a lady who's been to the moon. Children of abuse think they can bury their emotions and empathy, play with the brutes, who are intentionally cruel, yet not get hurt. It's delusion. You ruin your love. You ruin your life. The thighs are ruined...I wanted too much. (And in another song he said "you asked for too much....why not ask for more?) Ask for joy, not endless f------.

[Dyluck387]

He could pass for Dustin Hoffman in a lot of these pictures :P

[jsanjosemgmailcom]

I've been listening to this song all my life. It explains jealousy so quietly, without judging, in a complete description of its brutality. So perfect, so Cohen.

[TheLyssatype]

@jsanjosemgmailcom Yes. This is one of my favourite things about Cohen. He is so cruel in such a casual way with his music.

[MyCosmo2]

I suppose you know this that song is about S and M

[liagarden]

@MyCosmo2 Not! Most likely a sexual relationship--with a therapist or psychiatrist--another emotionally unavailable male, probably an "Aryan ideal"/idol (typical for a Jewess)--an ape with angel glands. Sexually driven; narcissistic, intentionally cruel. His body is a golden string. It might as well have been a steel chain. The beautiful boys of my youth. So many of them. Remember, it was the 60's. We were so young, and bodies were so beautiful. And CA was so warm and abundant.

[rumergodden]

an extraordinary song. so filled with deep longing and creates in me deep longing.

[liagarden]

When I was 19, my guitar-playing/surfer - boyfriend used to sing this to me..saying this "was me." Forty-five years later, I still don't understand. But I do understand "You get used to an empty room." And: "my love is some dust in an old man's cup.".... He was beautiful, and his skin was polished smooth by the ocean, like a stone. He still lives up in Topanga, or Malibu. I'd still like to ask him why he thought that....Lots of memories in these songs.

[Arjanajanath]

@liagarden Such a wonderful comment. I got kind of lost in your past reading it.... Go and find him please!

[liagarden]

@Arjanajanath ....and so to continue.......Playing far too rough for a lady who's been to the moon. Children of abuse think they can bury their emotions and empathy, play with the brutes, who are intentionally cruel, yet not get hurt. It's delusion. At 64, I am finally learning about love, real love.

[Olio89]

This song reminds me that the world we experience is an illusory myth.

[phineas75]

This song seems to evoke thoughts of relationships in the past. You did this to me and I did this to you. But I still think about you. It's a zero sum game. When I look back on it from middle age, I won. But when it happened, I lost.

[VL1302]

Absolute classic. Grew up with the debut album as a kid as my father and cousin often played the track...

[Pentan797]

This song just reminds me that no one will ever break my heart so effectively as the person I think about when I listen to this.

[Iamcola65]

Where's the soul?

Where's the creativity?

I could shit out things that would make me more emotional!

Fuck you music teacher you don't know shit!

DREAM THEATER FOR THE WIN

[malthus101]

Excellent slideshow - masterfully done! 10/10

[stinkypantsstinks]

Such a beautiful song. When I was 16 a teacher of mine, whom I had a huge crush on, gave me this album on tape. It opened me up to so much new thought and inspiration. It made my crush even worse, too! All these years later we're still friends. And I still love Leonard. :)

[caljunkal]

One of my favourite Leonard Cohen songs. Nice pictures too.

[mountainwoman66]

Never get bored of listening to this song, it's so beautiful :-)

[Davinowsky]

Like Nick Drake

[dakarlion1]

One of Leonard's earliest and most beautiful songs

[Echnaton1954]

Beauty describes itself !!!

[yarduag2008]

Chanteur à l'aura incommensurable . La force qui se dégage de lui n'a d'égale que sa tranquillité .

Sa voix grave est un orchestre à elle seule .

Bien représentée et secondée ici d'une musique intimiste et hypnotique chère à Léonard Cohen .

C'est lui qui disait que( la nostalgie c'est la joie d'être triste )

Ah quels abimes a t'il bien put sonder pour en arriver à une telle conclusion

et j'aime bien le regard qu'il porte sur le monde ,le recul qu'il sait prendre .

Son humour désabusé son ego .

[grungeisdull]

Goodness.

[zimmyfan115]

Excellently done. Congratulations. I love this song. Your video is very well done too.

Ron

[nicck]

His voice is quite high in this...

[SuzzyStohelit]

OH I adore this one, lets see I was 16 when it was released

[Localulu27]

For Fernando!!

[AmyMeacham]

Thanks! One of my favorites!

[Sharambo]

lucky every man who understands the depth of this song...

Cohen forever....

[swisscottagelondon]

lc looks like dustin hoffman in several of these shots - if dustin hoffman had been born later he could have played lc in a biopic, etc etc

[valentiv]

el cel blau, el sol, la platja ...i un bon suquet de peix al serrallo ... així passem els dies a la costa daurada ... sic transit gloria mundi ...

[PaleBlueDotCitizen]

This has always been my favorite Cohen song. Nice video, thanks.

[bornbillsmith]

There all great , so why should you say this is your favorite.

Do you really mean it.

[kwaka903]

Thanks Yvonne for introducing me to Cohen in '72, remember in your flat in Crumsal Manchester. You let me share a flake of your life, and still think of you quite often...

[louiseduvee]

Maestrro!

[Yusef22179]

What a perfect work of art. I listen to this song in the shower at dawn every morning. In my opinion, I can feel the influence of Federico Garcia Lorca on him in this song more than any other in his brilliant catalog. "Such as who had a worm, who had a rock..." and "An ape with angel glands" are almost transplanted images from the works of Lorca.

[grannypoe]

thanks--great song and pictures!!!