LEONARD COHEN, BOOGIE STREET

[gugavar17]

dzalian miyvars es simgera :))))

[golactica]

Everyone of us live on that street, it is boggie street

[winggoddess]

some of us come and leave in hate.

[zdory12]

This nastrojowośćCoena honey is at the heart

[magoulianitissa]

I thank God for Leonard Cohen... he makes my day every time!!!

[nico5773]

And O my love, I still recall

The pleasures that we knew;

The rivers and the waterfall,

Wherein I bathed with you.

Bewildered by your beauty there,

I’d kneel to dry your feet.

By such instructions you prepare

A man for Boogie Street.

[wisked]

jeez...I heard this for the first time when i was in England, in some shop of 'magic' stuff....still remember the impression I was under due to this song..

[cabytjuh]

geweldig!!!!!

[jleinonen1985]

I hope I can live as long as mr Cohen and learn to see and understand life like he does.

[mallducklard]

I can't get enough of this stuff.

[lehnerangelica]

He is one of the best..............

[MJ4evermore]

Oh man, Cohen said it all andleft nothing to be said...He's a LEGEND!!!

[paticakoos]

Must have been written for a Monday morning

[CHMEULDELAER]

Le noir et le blanc n'appartiennent pas au cercle chromatique... Mais lui sont indispensables.



[cronogeo]

@CHMEULDELAER Oui, je suis d'accord, cela est tre' vrai

[CHMEULDELAER]

@cronogeo J'aime les ombres, les reflets, la lumière et l'espace, tout ce qui me confine à la nuit des temps, quand j'inscrivais sur la roche, la mémoire.

[danielv62]

L.Cohen avait "disparu" pendant je dirais... 10 ans et un jour j'entends cette chanson.

Je me suis demandé ce que j'avais fait pendant ces 10 ans... moi?

Magnifique chanson.

Et merci pour ces images...parfaites.

Un univers;

Daniel

[cronogeo]

@danielv62 Je suis heureux que vous ayez appre'cie'. Paix

Cronogeo

[rbradaigh]

@cronogeo

talk English hoss, this is America.

[rbradaigh]

@cronogeo

"talk English hoss, this is America."

[glenn194513]

@rbradaigh - what kind of an idiot comment is that?

[rbradaigh]

@jhigdon21 Either you want your comment available to the greatest number of readers or you're trying to flash your intellect to a relatively small group of people. Your choice.

[rbradaigh]

@jhigdon21 I am from a place where we learned to spell in school along with grammar and where we don't flaunt our collection of off color language. And what third world hell hole did your parents crawl out of?

[pmpcorrea]

great pictures

[namestable]

My life is one long street. Boogie Boogie. Sipping life the best i can. Leonard nameste to you.

[hirundine]

nobody has told us yet, what boogie street is for?

Very nice artwork!

[belleangele]

i like this video, very nice with this song....which i can never have enough of it..

[stkonstantyn]

ДЯКУЮ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[im4out]

sweet....

[takolipo]

A sip of wine, a cigarette,

And then it’s time to go....

[Aphidboy]

Very nice. Moody, sleepy, and smooth.

[Movielunatic]

Take a look at my video production. There you will find trains, the Finnish army, the beautiful scenery of Finland, folk music, sailing ship Sedov, martial arts, sports, art exhibitions, animals, animation, a lot of Super 8 films and other interesting stuff!

[PhotoCher]

The best type of music video. The wonderful drawings are perfect!! Ty!

[telavivlady11]

beautiful he so good

i can hear him 24 hours

[aristotle1900]

@telavivlady11 24 hours ?

are you ok ?

ahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[telavivlady11]

@aristotle1900 i am great i go to sleep my radio is on if where all is songs i hear him all night in my sleep too not really lol i love all music and i think he have great music

[sweetgypsywife]

Nothing Leonard has written with or without Sharon can be appreciated on just one level....those of us who are truly touched and lifted by his poetry and songs, listen and listen again as we grapple with the layers of meaning....and the melodies become part of our souls...

[thepassion10]

oogie Street represents for me Leonard Cohen's return to the very nebulous business of making music. He has always been completely ambivalent about the Business and its conflict with his spiritual concerns, namely finding some means of feeling part of rather than apart from. He talks about this concern in most of his Interviews.

[thepassion10]

Boogie Street represents for me Leonard Cohen's return to the very nebulous business of making music. He has always been completely ambivalent about the Business and its conflict with his spiritual concerns, namely finding some means of feeling part of rather than apart from. He talks about this concern in most of his Interviews.

[Ninnykuh]

who is the woman singing in that song ? i can't find a live version, is it really sharon robinson ? please help me :)

[Zewaldi0007]

@Ninnykuh Yes it is Sharon Robinson

[oliver2277]

What a true artist , one in a million! We are privileged to be around at the same time as he is!

[oliver2277]

What a true artist , one in a million!

[TheOgando]

In short: you can't discuss filosophy with an empty stomach.

[TheOgando]

While the presentation is very entertaining, my opinion is that this song is not about the love between a man and a woman.

"oh Crown of Light" -> Jesus, Good, Light side of the Force, whatever you want to call it

"oh Darkened One" -> The Devil, Evil, Bad, etc..

This song is about that fight inside each one of us, and how, in the end, there's something called routine, or "Boogie Street", which is something that you need, but doesn't quite fit into a normal value scale.

[TheMalawi3]

amazing... saw him last night in florence (italy)... no words to describe it..

[pieladysmalls]

Look what you started Louis! :0 Saw LC in San Jose last Nov. This may be the best that Sharon Robinson and Leonard Cohen have done...to date, I hope.

[rosesredvioletsblue]

Incredible!!! 10***************

[nasgos1]

It is great video. i cry.

"..You kiss my lips, and then you're gone:

I’m back on Boogie Street..."

[TheGuitarjerry1126]

Outstanding! What a great upload! Thank you, for posting.

Jerry

[ingostorm]

i am on the boogie street ....

...

simple time to go...

[albertovalachi]

Poema y Talento del Maestro Leonard Cohen...genial,supremooooo.

[majagnat]

I just love it !

[SUNNYDORA]

Леонард Коен е един от най-божествените изпълнители на времето, в което живеем! Обичам всичко, което е изпял!

[ShayanTabbakh22]

"So come, my friends, be not afraid.

We are so lightly here.

It is in love that we are made;

In love we disappear.

Tho all the maps of blood and flesh

Are posted on the door,

Theres no one who has told us yet

What Boogie Street is for."

[ingostorm]

@ShayanTabbakh22

unpredictable !

[Kbrt111]

nu raz tvoemu ziatiu tak nravitsia ...vot eshjo odna v stile thousand kisses deep---prekrasnaja ...o ulice v Novom Orleane ..red district --krasnyj rajon ...

[psyqho666]

Wonderful.

[shivanet]

Why is there 30 seconds of silence at the end of this?

[bretbryan]

@shivanet, i've listened to this song countless times, many 30 seconds of silence to feel what i've just heard, and search for what it means. Listen for references to Boogie Street in A Thousand Kisses Deep

[TheOgando]

@shivanet : So you can meditate on the revelations sung here.

[TheHinksey]

A very good graphic presentation.

[drjosephus]

czech698 blows

[lmontecillo]

I just love Leonard Cohen, if only I could get to a concert. I remember spotting someone in the crowd in his "Live in London" DVD, holding a sign saying "Len I'm yours!", and I told my BF I wouldn't mind doing that, to which he replied, we should try it, so he could hold another one up saying "Len, she's kidding, we're both yours!" :p

[untwerf]

why did you put this video up as a response to edith piaf?

[1zappacadabra]

1A yes

[makiliiiiiii]

where can i find instrumental???????

[rileypam]

See his concert if you can. It will fill your heart and soul.

[Ghostbead]

Looks like an out take version of The Book of Longing--great etchings/woodblocks. Very much in period, like my very early memories of San Francisco.

[rileypam]

Did you mean to send this comment to me? I am confused.... smilin

[Ghostbead]

It's on sort of the same topic, but I'm nodding off. I thought someone asked where they could get the instrumental--same answer. Cohen/Glass The Book of Longing.

[LokIArioch]

Just saw him at Madison Square. Freakin' incredible. Just incredible.

[HrMadsen]

So nice. Love this and all his songs..

[AnippeJustice]

very tasteful sound and lyrics

[beacode]

And Sharon Robinson was like silk next to him.

[merzer131]

@beacode Like smoke above his shoulder.

[beacode]

He was beyond belief. Such a charisma, intelligence, you just wanna be in the same room with him.He is deep and just being a 100 % MAN now matter how old he is.

[laggie24]

This was absolutely stunning last night at Mr. Cohen's Budapest's Concert:.... He is magic ... this melody diggs a hole in my soul , ) , )

[howtroyburns]

pure spirituality..........

amazing lyrics........

I am 62 years old and have been a follower since first hearing probably 'suzanne' some where in the sixties....what guideposts on my own merry-go- round.............

[44pullups]

"So come, my friends, be not afraid.

We are so lightly here.

It is in love that we are made;

In love we disappear.

Tho all the maps of blood and flesh

Are posted on the door,

Theres no one who has told us yet

What Boogie Street is for."

[CrazyForMoony]

I love the complete and utter sadness this song seems to radiate... magnificent.

[mdavid1000]

We are so privilege to live at the same time with L.C

[Topaze285I]

The problem would have been to live in a time where L.C. wasn't born..... but let's say those weren't good times on their own.... though I totally agree with you.

[mdavid1000]

Thank you for your replay. We live in a difficult times and L.C is a little light to help us pass them

[keynna47]

this is my favourite leonard cohen song. i love the lyrics

[FloMonKish]

Nice I didnt know this one! reeaaaal good!

[1963michael]

Love this song, cool rthmm and the perfect voice from Leonard Cohen to sing it.

thnxs for placing it here!

[wyoming99]

sharon sings this solo on his latest tour.. amazing really... fantastic concert.

[bsmartdavis]

Friends, I must tell you, I am his addict, I mean LC... I just got couple his cds, one is my ever favorite ever-- ten new songs... I have it even when I cut my grass or water my garden... and I lay in bed and listen him and I feel at peace.. I look at his song as abstact painting, and I picking up what appeals to me at that very moment of my life...Thank you for posting this video. very stylish, and deep philosophical... Leonard, Bless your amaizing voice and Heart!!! Forever!!!

[nowheresland]

@bsmartdavis its also my favorite album!

[incarnazione]

I discovered this song just a week ago and i really think it is one of the greatest f'n songs i have ever heard.

I'M back on boogie street

[oldeblueboy]

god bless sharon robinson - a most under-rated singer songwriter.

[existingappointment]

Just about the time I think I know the LC songs I come up on something I haven't heard before. Somehow I thought this was from A Thousand Kisses Deep. Confused. God I love Leonard Cohen.

[TurquoiseLamp]

This song is so haunting, it has so many levels of meaning. Leonard Cohen writes brilliant songs. Beautiful!

[danielv62]

Géant

[kotea2]

it's an incredible song (its lyrics)...and the performance is perfect as well.

I love it so much:)

5/5/favs:)

[kevinbucky]

just saw him last night in saskatoon. a great concert. it lasted 3.5 hrs and it was all him and his band. if you get the chance everyone should see him.

[BannedHumor]

can't wait to see him next month.

[rimboval]

anyone know the opening singers name.

Haunting song.

[braggingfly]

Sharon Robinson--she has collaborated in writing a number of Leonard Cohen's pieces

[newmediaformat]

Great Video!

[louiseduvee]

Brilliant video for a great song. Love it.

Thank you!

[abrey2008]

Leonard Cohen is a genius !

[Eagleray99]

Yeah, I love the dark nature of the animation; very appropriate. Gives a whole new meaning to "Sex and the City"!

[uffx3]

mad props for the animation to this amazing song.

[VercingetorixXIII]

this man is amazing.....

[syraho]

When I'm bit out of order I always search for tranquilisers in form of this song. That vocals and lyrics are just so in the tune and I'm going straight out of blue...

[WudiRudi]

I love it

[cronogeo]

Thank you. Cronogeo

[Jonwints1945]

Thanks for your understanding Sir Leonard. You are spot on and fair dinkum!!!

[syraho]

quite a song and big up for animation clip. Whole album was great and finally someone posted my favourite song here...

[artmaniac53]

genious!!!

[mbleonhard]

Beautiful...

[LEWOOF]

lol......intelligent.... ;)

just one of my past lives impeeding on present day experience

[LEWOOF]

thanks Alegrastar. It seems to me that the people who fall deeply into Leonard Cohen's music are usually highly creative and intellegent.

[LEWOOF]

90mph across Arizona at 2:00am....this album up loud..the stars ...the darkness..time slows down...Leonards voice becomes your inner voice

[akyini]

Hmmmmmmmmm...so agree with you...even though I am from Germany. But I have been there and done that and its honestly the greatest feeling. It makes me wanna go again....wanna come? :D

[LEWOOF]

...always......a sip of wine..a cigarette...

[alegrastar]

Wow! Your comment hit my soul!

[cocochanelleke]

Quite impressive and oppressive.

Thanks for posting Cronogeo, and thanks for sending LEWOOF.

[Martindanse]

This song...

George Michael should cover this...

right up his alley.....

[lakedolfin]

How in the world George Michael can cover this song? He has nothing in his brain, only up his a..

[joanlagoy]

I love this one! Thank you...joanie

[DoctorScissors]

Very nice.

[lakedolfin]

"O Crown of Light, O Darkened One", who is "darkened one"?

Mesmorizing song, but magic starts when LC starts singing. You can't listen to his songs without reading the words along, because if you don't, then you lose the meaning.

"It is in love that we are made;

In love we disappear." that's a truth and pure beauty in poetry.

[captainirrelevant]

like most of Cohen's songs this one is both about love and religion. In "Leonard Cohen: I'm your man" the suggestion was that this song was inspired by his time in a buddhist monastery. Especially the "back on boogie street" seems to refer to that: coming back into the mundane. The darkened one is a gnostic way of refering to god. The song is about a brief glimpse or hint of another world. Also note by the way that "crown of light, o darkened one" could be a description of a solar eclipse.

[captainirrelevant]

There also seem to be some references to Jesus, which makes sense considering 'Suzanne'.

"you kiss my lips and then you're gone"

"I'd kneel to dry your feet"

oddly enough it seems to be written from Jesus' perspective.

Anyway, it is hard to mistake the meaning of the last lines "there's no one who has told us yet what boogie street is for": the meaning of life is as of yet unclear.

I focused on the religious elements as they are less obvious, but the romantic are just as essential.

[captainirrelevant]

Cohens songs are not metaphorical: they are similies. Two concepts are compared, one as central and valid as the other.

[factional]

Exacltly what I thought when I heard this song for the first time... It seams he is refering to the "modern" life that he is got back to after his time in the buddhist monastery... It was harder for me to "guess" what he meant by drakened one. But I think you are right by thinking he is refering to God.

[LakeMaryBallroom]

This is inspired by Hindu Literature. the "darkened" one is Krishna, who is not Dark, But like the sky and the oceans, which are clear but will appear dark to us when we are far away or when light is scarce. If the invisible man were in a dark room, well, you get it and I'm running on.

It is such a privilege to hear his voice and words. Thank you, Leonard

[factional]

You are 100% right. One have to listen to the lyrics very carefully in L Cohen's songs. He is a great poet. I just LOVE the part that you have written "It is in love.."

I think a lot in this song is refering to the "modern" life that he is got back to after his time in a buddhist monastery...

It is harder to "guess/understand" what he means by drakened one! But I think "captainirrelevant" must be close that it is refering to God!

Any way... Leonard Cohen is just great!

[ouzsubu]

Unreal...definately one of my faves!!

[deapetz]

Love it - thank you...

[CooperSonic08]

Superb.

[crnirok1]

Great video...

[cronogeo]

thank you , like your work as well

[23891887]

Interesting pictures. What is that type of art called?

[cronogeo]

wood cuts done around 1930

[23891887]

Amazing! Who created them?

[cronogeo]

Franz Masareel

[23891887]

Thanks for the upload, one of my fave Cohen tracks.

[cronogeo]

thank you