Leonard Cohen - Lady Midnight

[TheCaz]

What a GREAT, GREAT, GREAT songwriter! In 2175, I wonder if Leonard Cohen's songs will be louder than many of his (currently) more famous contemporaries, like Bob Dylan.

[harleymaori]

Sorry for my french but leonard fucken rocks!!!!!!

[darqueangels]

@harleymaori On occasions such as this, I must agree! Fucking rocks indeed. He makes me *swoon*

[gueifaosantos]

less than 180k views... probably i'm lost in heaven and almost nobody has been good...

[shankapotomusful]

i tried to pick my fave lines...impossible. i love this song. he is amazing. as always.

[AGlowingDream]

Long live Leonard. 

[HikiLuoma]

"0 dislikes". Maybe there is some kind of cosmic justice after all.

[TheKenney81]

why did that song just make me cry my eyes out?!

[TheThroney]

nobody cares but i miss my catherine.. though im dead and can never return my thoughts have nowhere to go.

[polmaccaba01]

HI JENNIFER! 

[chickiesgrettagirl]

so good a song!! many stars!

[sketchead2]

anyone got the chords to this?

[biggusdikkus88]

BEST SONG on the album lol... but then again second half of this album is flawless

[thoekie]

prachtig

[AbsintheColour]

Oddly enough, there is a vid on here of Heath Ledger in High school singing Hallelu...and now sometimes i think of him when i listen to certain Leonard Cohen songs. God I love Leonard! Topps!

[TheBlindPig1]

@AbsintheColour "Our lady darkness" is the defier of god, she is also the mother of lunacies, and the suggestree of suicides. Suffer not the morning come to me i am your lady darkness. Banish the frailties of hope, now i feel my greatness lies in grief.

[AbsintheColour]

@TheBlindPig1 thanks for the heads up Bling ;^)

[Jimmy94spaces]

when this?

[emptysense]

This song is about enlightenment. Leonard Cohen is a Zen Buddhist. The lady is enlightenment that is elusive. Only after many hours of meditation does she relent and embrace him in the morning.

[TheBlindPig1]

@emptysense You are wrong, but thats ok. Check out my post to AbsintheColour

[Grelin1999]

@emptysense Well we all make interpretations of lyrics. But as far as is known, Cohen wasn't into buddhism when he wrote the song in 1969. And today, he still considers himself happy with "the old" (judaism) ;)

[ristau]

He's as optimist, but only deep deep deep inside. But Very talented, you should hear 'Tower of Soud' with Bono and Edge. Amazing!!

[pjhirsch]

"you've won me, you've won me ..." Man turns out to be an optimist.

[AbsintheColour]

@pjhirsch lol. nice

[walkertongdee]

I did not know he was a ventriloquist.

[rubelcastle]

Thank you, Matt Ferguson, for playing this album over and over on Bluebird Road in the foothills of Glendora, California, in the 1970s. When I saw Leonard sing this year (2009), there was an empty seat next to me, and you were with me. You taught me so much.

[chaamjamal]

nancy wilson turned me on to leonard cohen in 1969. thanks nanc.

[AoifeNiPhleiminn]

Fave LC song ever

[Demoman1980]

Fucking love this tune,his voice was amazing in them days.

[EAMOOOO1]

Whats this about I ask meself, I`ll tell ya if you don`t mind. Its about the higher self the real self. The self covered up who wants to be known. He wants us all to know him. his self can only express in a way that we understand. and this way is limited for want....blah blagh. and so on. its words, they ring true and also they

[Ditchdiggers1]

I think you may be right. But what do you think he means with 'you've won me my lord?' Fantastic song, but I don't exactly grasp the meaning.

[nedmanxxx]

@Ditchdiggers1 well....once he'd won her....he WAS her lord....so to speak....in her heart.

[zeldagoblin]

@Ditchdiggers1 He's wooing his Lady Midnight. She is refusing him throughout the song, issuing a challenge, "don't try to use me, or slyly refuse me, just win me or lose me..." til at last he walks away through the "sweet early morning", and she finally relents..."you've won me, my lord". In the Old Testament story of Abraham, Abraham's wife calls him "my lord". Perhaps this is the inspiration for that phrase.

[KamilliasTube]

Lady Midnight

I came by myself to a very crowded place;

I was looking for someone who had lines in her face.

I found her there but she was past all concern;

I asked her to hold me, I said, lady, unfold me,

But she scorned me and she told me

I was dead and I could never return.

Well, I argued all night like so many have before,

Saying, whatever you give me, I seem to need so much more.

[KamilliasTube]

Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor,

She said, dont try to use me or slyly refuse me,

Just win me or lose me,

It is this that the darkness is for.

I cried, oh, lady midnight, I fear that you grow old,

The stars eat your body and the wind makes you cold.

If we cry now, she said, it will just be ignored.

[KamilliasTube]

So I walked through the morning, sweet early morning,

I could hear my lady calling,

Youve won me, youve won me, my lord,

Youve won me, youve won me, my lord,

Yes, youve won me, youve won me, my lord,

Ah, youve won me, youve won me, my lord,

Ah, youve won me, youve won me, my lord.

[MuzakConcrete]

You've won meeee, you've won meee, my lord.

Wonderful outro. Always captures me.

[maimrozek]

Amazing. Love this song!. Thanks for the post!

[grannypoe]

thanks for sharing

[OsvaldoPaese]

Thanks for posting this. I love this song.