getting mighty sick of these sodding ads. having to sit through a minute long ad for some crappy war based video game before listening to something as wonderful as this just seems all wrong.
@SquishedButterfly Yes, they suck ... but it sure beats having to pay to use YouTube. It costs a lot of money to run this site, since people are constantly uploading videos, which requires bandwidth, which isn't free.
Hey, I'm a realist and a capitalist. I don't like ads getting in front of a great song/video anymore than you do, but it pays for the site and keeps it 100% FREE for you and me. So, because of that, I can't complain about the ads too much.
@MaximillianZakes the trouble is that if it ends up being an ad before every vid, the ad to entertainment ratio will be far too high. the people that run this site get tons out of having millions of users, and can easily survive without an ad before every vid.
As far as I understand it, the video uploaders can refuse the offer of making revenue from their successful vids. Why don't they? I did. I don't imagine they get much money so why make their viewers suffer this crass trash.
Yes, a full ad before every video would suck, but the uploader isn't entirely responsible, if I'm not mistaken. If a person uploads something that gets content matched (like this song), if the copyright holders want to, an ad will run either on or before the video so that they can get money.
There are a few videos that don't have ads before them, but, like you said, the number grows smaller every day.
@skidrowsux1977 the band...sisters of mercy, claim they took it from this song, but wikipedia, their quotes in various music magazines..and all other sources on the internet could be wrong, thats true.
If you like the lyrics to Leonard's songs, then you may very well like KOZMIC DREAMERS, whose artistic vision and expression defines them as one of a kind. Buy one of the songs or poems on iTunes
i know this singer from a book.because i love this book i thought i have to listen to leonard cohen.and i'm so glad that i did this.he's so great.i like his music so much<3
A long time ago,in a land faraway ,I was a boy who became a man.The love I had was for a girl ,who also became a woman .I wonder if she remembers me?This was one of her favorite songs,as well as Lola by the Kinks.The past becomes clearer.While the future grows dim.
@TheMaestroB Really? Wow.. What a totally uninteresting fucking comment. Just shut the fuck up and listen to the song. Just because you CAN comment doesn't mean you SHOULD.. Dope
This is certainly a great song, and put to good use in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Washington is a humble state with a dark and bloody history, accurately portrayed in the movie.
This is a great song, and put to great use in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The State of Washington has a long and dark history, and the movie was certainly accurate in a spiritual sense.
Leonard's Sisters opf Mercy is one song that I can never get out of my mind; it is sad yet so real and touching. I also recall the Me and Mrs. McCabe as one my favorite movies.
From the exquisite and never shown movie, McCabe & Mrs Miller. I bless and thank every soul with whom mine shared comfort & laughs away from the world outside.
@verbaud Thankyou so much for the name of the Movie, yes I saw it many Years ago on late night NZ Sky movies and being a Leonard Cohen fan I loved it but could never remember the name of the movie, now I can try and find a copy. thankyou again.
Thanks Cohen for this lovely song. I also listen to it in a Swedish version by Ebba Forsberg. In both versions it is up to the message anyway. Lovely! Gabriel of Sweden
I'm kept standing at the gate. They shave my head, and they lead me away. They show me the night as it seems to one sitting at the charnel ground. The lake at the temple is remembered with old age. And the forest around us is dense and kept all alone. They showed me the truth, and it colored my clothes, as I rose from the grass in the morning. I slept, I admit I was wrong. But when I was dying they chanted my name from the hall.
@arnoldpalmero I'm sorry for not answering you sooner. They're excerpts from a poem I wrote inspired by this song. It can be found in it's entirety at loveaspoetry.blogspot.com
I love the image of Cohen writing this by the light of the moon in a snowbound hotel, while a couple of strange young women sleep in his bed. Maybe one of them looked like Shelly Duval -or Julie Christie, if he was really lucky.
"if your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem" best lyric ever imho
I think that seeing this film by Warren Beatty, knowing at the time in the theatre his choice of Leonard Cohen's recordings as a soundtrack was box office suicide but artistic brilliance is essential in understanding this video. Recording done long before screenplay. This was the first time I took serious notice of Warren as an artist. Love/d this film. And then came Reds. LC and WB together in a movie theatre far from the skid row of NYC-peak experience.
The movie accompanying the song is McCabe and Mrs. Miller, directed by Robert Altman and starring Julie Christie, Warren Beatty and Shelly Duvall, filmed in the early '70s in British Columbia.
@Qwerti60 Both are great--a radio programming guy told me once that we tend to favor the first version of a song we hear over 90% of the time. The younger we are when we first hear the song, the more this is true. I heard LC's first but Sting's is great too!!!!!!!
@Qwerti60 Yes--I have the CD from a few years back--2 other great covers on it are Aaron Neville's "There Ain't No Cure For Love" and Trisha Yearwood's "Comin' Back To You. And on the latest tribute CD--Teddy Thompson's "Tonight Will Be Fine" and "The Future." Love those LC tribute CDs!!!
This song and the film are so significant to me. You're going to say I'm ridiculous, but it's true so fuck off. The song was one of the reasons, one of the little doubts I used to get me through the worst withdrawal I ever had from addiction. The irony of it is that the film I can't watch because I was the highest and happiest I ever was when I saw it and now when I see the film, my favorite, and even just her opium smile there I get MASSIVE pangs. Is the film really beautiful? The song is
This song and the film are so significant to me. You're going to say I'm ridiculous, but it's true so fuck off. The song was one of the reasons, one of the little doubts I used to get me through the worst withdrawal I ever had from addiction. The irony of it is that the film I can't watch because I was the highest and happiest I ever was when I saw it and now when I see the film, my favorite, and even just her opium smile there I get MASSIVE pangs. Is the film really beautiful? The song is
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it would be better if he sang against his racist and facist country of israel, that's causing distress and war around the globe. Instead Leonard like a prostitute is attracted too much by their sheckles.
@g0ldb3rg3r Hey you idiot of morons. Leonard Chen is a Canadian and one of the greatest musicians in the world. He is a practicing Zen Buddhist monk so get your facts right. The only thing you probably accomplished in your life can be summed up by the ignorance of your comments.
I live in Arizona, and in 1967 when I heard my first LC song I was in high school. I've been a fan since, and many of his songs have been like soundtracks for my life. In reading this I can see I'm not alone. Now that is called sweetening of my night...
I didn't hear Leonard until 1976. I've been a fan ever since. This is one of my favorites. Teddy Thompson does a great version of Tonight will be Fine(may have that title wrong)
Ah...Mr. Cohen. When I was a young man in the late sixties, he was one of the best parts of the soundtrack of my enfolding life at that time. "Bird on the Wire" used to make me weep.
Thank you Leonard Cohen for this wonderful song. And for you intrinsic music. Just listening to you and your poetry is a holistic moment that cries out for love in this world. "You can read their address by the moon."
@rfish54 here here.i concur with you.i seen leonard in sydney recently.and i walked away feeling that my soul had been thoroughly nourished hes much older than when i first heard him in 1978 but his voice has lost none of its tenure.
You know what I truly love about Leonard Cohen is his music is for all occasions when you are at the pinnacle of happiness of if your down and out and can hardly face the world you can always find some thing that Leonard can relate to .
It's about all of you that are worn out by "Life". Comparing Jesus Christ "hanging from pins" to the beauty and purity of a woman that you have not had yet. Peace and comfort that you get laying besides her...
The video is from the Movie "Macabe and Mrs. Miller - Warren Beatty and Julie Christie - they opened a "house" in 19th century Oregon. They used this song and many other Leonard Cohen tunes as the backdrop. That's why y'all think it's about prostitutes.
Reductive?! Come to Norway, a land where all is reduced and streamlined until it's about money or nothing at all. Are you a publisher? Have all your books translated to Norwegian and then have them quote/sell it all back to you as though they were theirs to start with. Ahh, so streamlined. So effektivt! So ... reduced.
It's not "ABOUT" prostitutes. Cohen said some young women were stranded during a snowstorm and he invited them to stay in his hotel room. They slept and he wrote this song--he claims--the fastest of any he's ever done. Besides, saying a song is "About" something ruins it. Try checking out the amazing poetry, alliteration and imagery. And this gorgeous melody. Don't be so reductive.
@peterzang Very close. Cohen tells the complete story of this song on the bootleg recording, "Complete BBC 2 Broadcast, 31 Aug 1968" about two girls from Edmonton in 1965. I won't give it away. Go on Captain Crawl and search it out for yourself.
@peterzang That's fine. But wouldn't a song honoring two prostitutes (if it that was what it was about) in such a beautiful way be Productive and not Reductive? To sing a beautiful song about two women living a life that mostly is considered shamefull and gritty. It's probably correct what you say about the meaning of the lyrics, but if people think it's about prostitutes it doesn't ruint he beauty of the song.
@peterzang Know that for a fact? Or are you making assumptions too? Anyway, at least the guy is using his imagination. I think you're the one reductiving, clever clogs.
I've loved this album and imagined what the songs could be about for 40 years now, and every track starts a little film in my mind, stranger song being the most convoluted (I have the album on vinyl still in perfect knick) and now you've spoilt it for me - I always thought this was about porn nuns. (kidding).
I think perdidoFantasma could easily be right. I'm sure that Eldritch of The Sisters listened to Cohen now and then - just as I know from what I read that he listened to Nick Cave. Secondly, the lines from Cohen's song: 'It won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night... We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be alright' could give a clue to what it's about. But then again I never thought about it before. So thanks for the reminder, Spectrum99122
Oh yeah, and this album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" came out the same year as "Velvet Underground and Nico". (Thanks to my buddy VLU for pointing that out!)
This song brings tears to eyes.
BuckworthJackson 3 weeks ago
@rocanon great editing to a great song and a great Altman film!
mucho thanx!!!
TheSankyu99 1 month ago
getting mighty sick of these sodding ads. having to sit through a minute long ad for some crappy war based video game before listening to something as wonderful as this just seems all wrong.
SquishedButterfly 2 months ago
@SquishedButterfly Yes, they suck ... but it sure beats having to pay to use YouTube. It costs a lot of money to run this site, since people are constantly uploading videos, which requires bandwidth, which isn't free.
Hey, I'm a realist and a capitalist. I don't like ads getting in front of a great song/video anymore than you do, but it pays for the site and keeps it 100% FREE for you and me. So, because of that, I can't complain about the ads too much.
MaximillianZakes 2 months ago
@MaximillianZakes the trouble is that if it ends up being an ad before every vid, the ad to entertainment ratio will be far too high. the people that run this site get tons out of having millions of users, and can easily survive without an ad before every vid.
As far as I understand it, the video uploaders can refuse the offer of making revenue from their successful vids. Why don't they? I did. I don't imagine they get much money so why make their viewers suffer this crass trash.
SquishedButterfly 2 months ago
@SquishedButterfly Sorry for the late reply.
Yes, a full ad before every video would suck, but the uploader isn't entirely responsible, if I'm not mistaken. If a person uploads something that gets content matched (like this song), if the copyright holders want to, an ad will run either on or before the video so that they can get money.
There are a few videos that don't have ads before them, but, like you said, the number grows smaller every day.
MaximillianZakes 2 months ago
This clip is the most beautiful harmony of music, poetry, and cinematography. If it's NOT perfect, it is splendidly close.
anaki96 3 months ago 2
This is my favorite Leonard Cohen song. It's perfect.
nauort23 4 months ago
Thanks rocanon for this brilliant video.
176cadbury 4 months ago
the band, sisters of mercy took their name from the sisters of mercy, not this song...
skidrowsux1977 5 months ago
@skidrowsux1977 the band...sisters of mercy, claim they took it from this song, but wikipedia, their quotes in various music magazines..and all other sources on the internet could be wrong, thats true.
TheMaestroB 4 months ago
This is a thing of rare beauty
stepenwolf7 5 months ago 5
lovely ♥
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johnpat89 5 months ago
Love Leonard Cohen
Love McCabe and Mrs Miller
Love The Sisters of Mercy
lmustBREAKyou 6 months ago 4
I love this song!
rkau8671 6 months ago
relaxing song but i popped a nut thinking this was a "the sisters of mercy" song -.-
saberking1992 6 months ago
I think you mean "Leonard Cohen - Sisters of Mercy".
leukorrivore 6 months ago
It was rumored this song was written about Leonard's brief flirtation with Scientology, but who care's as in all music it is what it means to you!
rakeuiff 6 months ago
Beautiful images to go with this song
love20028 6 months ago 2
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My sister has a different color than me (and Down Syndrome),
and she is the coolest person I have ever met!
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SabarStudios 7 months ago
Avec ces petits instruments si particuliers qui scellent la Volonté.
libertelibre 7 months ago
i know this singer from a book.because i love this book i thought i have to listen to leonard cohen.and i'm so glad that i did this.he's so great.i like his music so much<3
YuukiChan96 7 months ago
A long time ago,in a land faraway ,I was a boy who became a man.The love I had was for a girl ,who also became a woman .I wonder if she remembers me?This was one of her favorite songs,as well as Lola by the Kinks.The past becomes clearer.While the future grows dim.
peter2156 8 months ago 16
@peter2156 Haha, I was just listening to Lola, but no, i'm not the girl..
zemrpereira 1 month ago
beth ormond did this song on im your man by leonard cohen.i really love that version.she is awesone.cold chills down my spine and all of that!
1970bamagirl 8 months ago
The free thinkers of the Arts will always outnumber the prune face shrill voiced self proclamed censors of the media.
ADonovan43 9 months ago
the band sisters of mercy took their name from this song
TheMaestroB 9 months ago 48
@TheMaestroB surely
greendog105 4 months ago
@TheMaestroB Really? Wow.. What a totally uninteresting fucking comment. Just shut the fuck up and listen to the song. Just because you CAN comment doesn't mean you SHOULD.. Dope
samooskhka 4 weeks ago
@samooskhka okay, sorry.
TheMaestroB 3 weeks ago
Thumbs up if you were looking for this but found The Sisters of Mercy first! ;-)
cosmicshambles 9 months ago 4
Wonderful.
thepirateboy81 9 months ago
Brilliant film, and an even more brilliant song. Perfect match really.
PrawnToucher 9 months ago 2
This song got me through he loss of my first love.
But the good news is she took me back.
If you love something let it go, if it comes back then it was truly meant to be.
This song is for everyone, from Leonard.
fartmagnet 9 months ago 3
I love Leonard Cohen with a passion, but sometimes I listen to him and think he could make mr happy a bit wearisome.
123jsbach 10 months ago
@123jsbach
he has his spot, but if not check mister tickle
edelweiss1001 8 months ago
I found them. I never moved on. It is heaven indeed.
getyoursfree 10 months ago 3
Such a touching moving song,.
chloe47519 10 months ago 3
that is Shelly Duvall, one of Robert Altman's favorite actresses to have work with. Not one of Stanley Kubrick's favorites though.
MrTimalex1 10 months ago
is that shelly duval,jack nicolas didnt like her.len is god
35mrgerard 11 months ago
Leonard's songs are so magic, the music unsurpassable except perhaps by his lyrics.
He is truly a poet, I can't think of any songs as beautiful as suzanne, bird on a wire, or sisters of mercy.
On a side note;
The sisters of mercy didn't bother to wait for 28 people...
moo6495 11 months ago
I like just about every Leonard Cohen song I've ever heard... but I always thought this one was a little better than the rest.
nauort23 11 months ago
1 million views. About time :P
TheMightyPotter1 11 months ago 3
McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a masterpiece.
scottmackeen 11 months ago
<3
nunitonick 11 months ago
sincerely, l. cohen.
leonard cohen is truly a god amongst songwriters <3
mechanique 1 year ago 3
This is certainly a great song, and put to good use in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Washington is a humble state with a dark and bloody history, accurately portrayed in the movie.
pedonbio 1 year ago
This is a great song, and put to great use in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The State of Washington has a long and dark history, and the movie was certainly accurate in a spiritual sense.
pedonbio 1 year ago
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pedonbio 1 year ago
Leonard's Sisters opf Mercy is one song that I can never get out of my mind; it is sad yet so real and touching. I also recall the Me and Mrs. McCabe as one my favorite movies.
freewillietoday 1 year ago 2
I love the Judy Collins version.
BigBillsdiggs 1 year ago
@BigBillsdiggs Personally, George Hamilton IVth is my favourite.........
Factnotfictionpeople 1 year ago
From the exquisite and never shown movie, McCabe & Mrs Miller. I bless and thank every soul with whom mine shared comfort & laughs away from the world outside.
verbaud 1 year ago
@verbaud Thankyou so much for the name of the Movie, yes I saw it many Years ago on late night NZ Sky movies and being a Leonard Cohen fan I loved it but could never remember the name of the movie, now I can try and find a copy. thankyou again.
Carolyn934 1 year ago
He makes the lovers who love and move on sound like a sweet dream. Such gentleness. Such gratefulness. Such celebration.
FENNYMAN 1 year ago
This song, like so many other Leonard Cohen songs, is a work of genius...Cohen was and is a Canadian legend.
PETERGB9 1 year ago 3
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Cohen was and is a Canadian cunt.
cinedores 1 year ago
The video is an excerpt of the movie 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller'.
Wonderful music.
rutabagasteu 1 year ago
All the great music has already been created. Leonard did his share.
darner123 1 year ago
@jamesisadouche What you mean with "Werd"?
Farctow 1 year ago
Thanks Cohen for this lovely song. I also listen to it in a Swedish version by Ebba Forsberg. In both versions it is up to the message anyway. Lovely! Gabriel of Sweden
gabriel82030 1 year ago
Listening to this song makes you think your travelling thru time...
sofakingdrunk66 1 year ago
Listen VERY close.
gerryhiles 1 year ago
Good song
TheNFamy 1 year ago
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
douchebarge 1 year ago
The best song he ever did
abbeycat1950 1 year ago
His best track ever.
abbeycat1950 1 year ago
Its not fair. I want to be a musical genius too.
Mr. Cohen, days are sunnier with your music.
rockit353 1 year ago
pondfrogplop 1 year ago 3
@pondfrogplop excuse me. where are those lines from?
arnoldpalmero 1 year ago
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@arnoldpalmero I'm sorry for not answering you sooner. They're excerpts from a poem I wrote inspired by this song. It can be found in it's entirety at loveaspoetry.blogspot.com
pondfrogplop 1 year ago
@pondfrogplop where is this from?
arnoldpalmero 1 year ago
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pondfrogplop 1 year ago
It is not strange at all that most men will see a sublime insperation in this beautiful song.Take care ADonovan43
ADonovan43 1 year ago
I love the image of Cohen writing this by the light of the moon in a snowbound hotel, while a couple of strange young women sleep in his bed. Maybe one of them looked like Shelly Duval -or Julie Christie, if he was really lucky.
ishtarg8 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you came here looking for The Sisters of Mercy
wralphh 1 year ago 147
@wralphh
o_o you do know that they named their band after this song, i'm sure ;)
mechanique 1 year ago
This is one of my favourites by Leonard Cohen I love it!
mariabest 1 year ago
Perfect clip to a divine song
JiS01 1 year ago
"if your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn, they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem" best lyric ever imho
amylovespink 1 year ago 2
This is beautiful <3
WoodRatGirl 1 year ago
I think that seeing this film by Warren Beatty, knowing at the time in the theatre his choice of Leonard Cohen's recordings as a soundtrack was box office suicide but artistic brilliance is essential in understanding this video. Recording done long before screenplay. This was the first time I took serious notice of Warren as an artist. Love/d this film. And then came Reds. LC and WB together in a movie theatre far from the skid row of NYC-peak experience.
sarahze 1 year ago
This is the song that brought the great man into my life in almost 40 years ago-Thank you Leonard.
whiteman703 1 year ago
The movie accompanying the song is McCabe and Mrs. Miller, directed by Robert Altman and starring Julie Christie, Warren Beatty and Shelly Duvall, filmed in the early '70s in British Columbia.
exvancouver 1 year ago
Good movie!
vladbosket 1 year ago
Sting's Celtic version is much more beautiful!
Qwerti60 1 year ago
@Qwerti60 Both are great--a radio programming guy told me once that we tend to favor the first version of a song we hear over 90% of the time. The younger we are when we first hear the song, the more this is true. I heard LC's first but Sting's is great too!!!!!!!
fek2000 1 year ago
Did you hear Sting's & Chieftan's version? I can give you a link to their version
Qwerti60 1 year ago
@Qwerti60 Yes--I have the CD from a few years back--2 other great covers on it are Aaron Neville's "There Ain't No Cure For Love" and Trisha Yearwood's "Comin' Back To You. And on the latest tribute CD--Teddy Thompson's "Tonight Will Be Fine" and "The Future." Love those LC tribute CDs!!!
fek2000 1 year ago
Great! You know that Irish Traditional music is much more beautiful than Pop music!
Qwerti60 1 year ago
what movie is in the background?
lollipopfop 1 year ago
@lollipopfop Read the video description...
PutItAway101 1 year ago
Is anyone capable of putting this song to some stills of the young lads who were in World War One.?
MrJudd48 1 year ago
Is anyone capable of putting this song to some stills of the young lads who were in World War One.?
MrJudd48 1 year ago
Shelly Duval is so beautiful and brilliant in this movie!
VinceProfessor 1 year ago
Why's it in black and white?
2Touchstone 1 year ago
Brilliant,long live Leonard Cohen and his beautiful songs
jamjam7921 1 year ago
Memories :)
80sChick1000 1 year ago
i thought it was about nuns!
louelladevlille 1 year ago
@louelladevlille No, sex, it's what you shout.
llangol 1 year ago
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This song and the film are so significant to me. You're going to say I'm ridiculous, but it's true so fuck off. The song was one of the reasons, one of the little doubts I used to get me through the worst withdrawal I ever had from addiction. The irony of it is that the film I can't watch because I was the highest and happiest I ever was when I saw it and now when I see the film, my favorite, and even just her opium smile there I get MASSIVE pangs. Is the film really beautiful? The song is
jazhand 1 year ago
This song and the film are so significant to me. You're going to say I'm ridiculous, but it's true so fuck off. The song was one of the reasons, one of the little doubts I used to get me through the worst withdrawal I ever had from addiction. The irony of it is that the film I can't watch because I was the highest and happiest I ever was when I saw it and now when I see the film, my favorite, and even just her opium smile there I get MASSIVE pangs. Is the film really beautiful? The song is
jazhand 1 year ago
such a fuc**** beautiful song, great lyrics
fiendorgyfetisha 1 year ago
I think music was a very essential element of that great movie, which is Altman's best in my category.
HommaHieno 1 year ago
a beutyful song !
krimilia 1 year ago
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ivaivaiva0 1 year ago
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ivaivaiva0 1 year ago
Well I've been where you're hanging
I think I can see how you're pinned
When you're not feeling holy
Your loneliness says that you've sinned
greatwhitepolarbear 1 year ago
Composer, Artist, Poet, Genius
loisl827 1 year ago
The "prostitutes" are from McCabe & Mrs Miller - a film that used Leonard Cohen's songs in the soundtrack.
cubbyjo 1 year ago
I love this song but prostitutes? WTF?
taichibailongball 1 year ago
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it would be better if he sang against his racist and facist country of israel, that's causing distress and war around the globe. Instead Leonard like a prostitute is attracted too much by their sheckles.
g0ldb3rg3r 1 year ago
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Tigerroar88 1 year ago
@g0ldb3rg3r Hey you idiot of morons. Leonard Chen is a Canadian and one of the greatest musicians in the world. He is a practicing Zen Buddhist monk so get your facts right. The only thing you probably accomplished in your life can be summed up by the ignorance of your comments.
Tigerroar88 1 year ago 4
Wish someone would put up the Judy Collins version of his song.
forlovessake 1 year ago
everything you need to know about life can be found in one Leonard Cohen song or another
andy191266 1 year ago 33
@andy191266 You know; that is almost right! I found my sisters of mercy in 1968 and I bless them as they blessed me.
TedMichaelMorgan 9 months ago 3
I live in Arizona, and in 1967 when I heard my first LC song I was in high school. I've been a fan since, and many of his songs have been like soundtracks for my life. In reading this I can see I'm not alone. Now that is called sweetening of my night...
cliftongal51 1 year ago
Hey, I hear he sang like Simon and Garfulkel. Did they sing in the same kind of music? The kind's like Folk...
TrinhGiang1311 1 year ago
We werent lovers like that and again it would be all right. shoudl explain the song.
pakmanishere 1 year ago
This is about affection and respect. Nothing less. Beautiful.
ncmathsadist 1 year ago
I didn't hear Leonard until 1976. I've been a fan ever since. This is one of my favorites. Teddy Thompson does a great version of Tonight will be Fine(may have that title wrong)
bobdog11 1 year ago
Ah...Mr. Cohen. When I was a young man in the late sixties, he was one of the best parts of the soundtrack of my enfolding life at that time. "Bird on the Wire" used to make me weep.
tomkellycartoons 1 year ago
Best Film ....Ever.
A love story to beat them all.
sidensvans67 1 year ago
A guy who takes around a year to finish a song dose not deserve rash explanations for his art......
62holden 1 year ago
His voice just gets better as he gets more perspective on life.
scandial 1 year ago 2
Maybe the Hallelujah nubs can start covering this one
InTheCity3D 1 year ago 2
so want to see this!!!
ginger1551 1 year ago
legend
master10734 1 year ago
musically and lyrically, absolutely his best song.....most memorable and lasting
endless66 1 year ago 5
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flipporify 1 year ago
...and besides it would still be alright
Opalwitley 1 year ago
Thank you Leonard Cohen for this wonderful song. And for you intrinsic music. Just listening to you and your poetry is a holistic moment that cries out for love in this world. "You can read their address by the moon."
rfish54 2 years ago 26
@rfish54 here here.i concur with you.i seen leonard in sydney recently.and i walked away feeling that my soul had been thoroughly nourished hes much older than when i first heard him in 1978 but his voice has lost none of its tenure.
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Just listening to you and your poetry is a holistic moment that cries out for love in this world - pretentious cunt
cinedores 1 year ago
nice catholic ladies
MrBOLLACKS 2 years ago
Magic, love this
llangol 2 years ago 2
wat a song
star1969xxx 2 years ago
MAGIC !
mobyboy 2 years ago
456
m74k3H 2 years ago
@m74k3H though I was hoping SoM did a song called "Leonard Cohen"
m74k3H 2 years ago
say 123 if u got here form "sisters of mercy" the goth band -.-
sinnerx923 2 years ago
say 456 if you like both artists and already knew that the "goth" band probably named themselves after cohen's song
coffeescup 2 years ago 2
@sinnerx923 123 :-)
clearviewmind 2 years ago
123 u.ú
jesuisxD 2 years ago
great job! great film! great song!
fattysummers 2 years ago
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Look up "My Balls". It's epic
Go with Christ brah
jessicafischerqueen 2 years ago
You know what I truly love about Leonard Cohen is his music is for all occasions when you are at the pinnacle of happiness of if your down and out and can hardly face the world you can always find some thing that Leonard can relate to .
seeker375 2 years ago 6
It's about all of you that are worn out by "Life". Comparing Jesus Christ "hanging from pins" to the beauty and purity of a woman that you have not had yet. Peace and comfort that you get laying besides her...
nickkler 2 years ago 3
The video is from the Movie "Macabe and Mrs. Miller - Warren Beatty and Julie Christie - they opened a "house" in 19th century Oregon. They used this song and many other Leonard Cohen tunes as the backdrop. That's why y'all think it's about prostitutes.
cjKahuna 2 years ago 2
Reductive?! Come to Norway, a land where all is reduced and streamlined until it's about money or nothing at all. Are you a publisher? Have all your books translated to Norwegian and then have them quote/sell it all back to you as though they were theirs to start with. Ahh, so streamlined. So effektivt! So ... reduced.
oilgasfish1 2 years ago
It's not "ABOUT" prostitutes. Cohen said some young women were stranded during a snowstorm and he invited them to stay in his hotel room. They slept and he wrote this song--he claims--the fastest of any he's ever done. Besides, saying a song is "About" something ruins it. Try checking out the amazing poetry, alliteration and imagery. And this gorgeous melody. Don't be so reductive.
peterzang 2 years ago 66
@peterzang Very close. Cohen tells the complete story of this song on the bootleg recording, "Complete BBC 2 Broadcast, 31 Aug 1968" about two girls from Edmonton in 1965. I won't give it away. Go on Captain Crawl and search it out for yourself.
UrbanGraffito 1 year ago
@peterzang That's fine. But wouldn't a song honoring two prostitutes (if it that was what it was about) in such a beautiful way be Productive and not Reductive? To sing a beautiful song about two women living a life that mostly is considered shamefull and gritty. It's probably correct what you say about the meaning of the lyrics, but if people think it's about prostitutes it doesn't ruint he beauty of the song.
Wowbagger86 1 year ago
@peterzang its got to be from a filmn tho?
scrumpyjack2007 1 year ago
@scrumpyjack2007 Yes Robert Altman's McCabe And Mrs Miller. Show up above. One of the most perfect matchings of films and songs ever.
peterzang 1 year ago
@peterzang Sometimes just the visual of the written lyrics can spoil it's magic, all the awesomeness of music happens in our minds.
Farctow 1 year ago
@peterzang Know that for a fact? Or are you making assumptions too? Anyway, at least the guy is using his imagination. I think you're the one reductiving, clever clogs.
I've loved this album and imagined what the songs could be about for 40 years now, and every track starts a little film in my mind, stranger song being the most convoluted (I have the album on vinyl still in perfect knick) and now you've spoilt it for me - I always thought this was about porn nuns. (kidding).
harrynicholas 1 year ago
I think perdidoFantasma could easily be right. I'm sure that Eldritch of The Sisters listened to Cohen now and then - just as I know from what I read that he listened to Nick Cave. Secondly, the lines from Cohen's song: 'It won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night... We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be alright' could give a clue to what it's about. But then again I never thought about it before. So thanks for the reminder, Spectrum99122
MrThomasdrewsen 2 years ago
Quel génie!
janodid 2 years ago
All these years I had thought this song was about Nuns! OM fucking God, it's about prostitutes. How can someone be so wrong! Hehe
spectrum99122 2 years ago 2
There is no difference between them...
cytherea78 2 years ago
HeHe,
TedMichaelMorgan 2 years ago
@spectrum99122Yes i also thought it was about nuns! I also thought hallelujiah was about jesus things too.... no.... sex apparantly!
louelladevlille 1 year ago
you want the truth you cant handle the truth.
azazel637 2 years ago
it sounds like the velvet underground
dont think that??
ArbeitmachtfreiX 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I get it. I think John Cale would've had fun this tune.
TonyRoq 2 years ago
Oh yeah, and this album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" came out the same year as "Velvet Underground and Nico". (Thanks to my buddy VLU for pointing that out!)
TonyRoq 2 years ago
great. <3
niespokojna69 2 years ago
I don't watched the movie, But sisters of mercy always did great songs
And this is one
autoLOW 2 years ago