Leonard Cohen - Closing Time

[Sergueivster]

Me encanta el poeta canadienese.

[edelweiss1001]

3.29am night night

[lazyles26]

Mmm.............

[Tommyfazz]

I'm your man when it comes to the pickled eggs mind.

[panagiop]

The amazingly wise and deep words? The incredible soothing and sexy voice of Leonard?The fantastic artistic presentation of this video?The bittersweet spirit that defines this song,and that applies to real life in so many ways? The gorgeous co singers that you can't get your eyes or ears off? Or the 'I loved you for your beauty,but that doesn't make a fool of me,you were in it for your beauty too..' that he says with a smile,a line that means SO much?I don't know what i love more about this song

[fizzguts]

@panagiop Thanks. you expressed it words I could never top or articulate. hat tip to you

[sootybambam]

those were the days f++++ing gov stopped that,next thing alchohol will b banned

[XuZhongRui]

« even though he was built to see the world this way, he was also built to disregard, to be free of the way he was built to see the world »

[hiddeninromance]

This is one of the best

[zapkvr]

Thank the Buddha it isn't Matchbox 20. Damn they stink!

[House38500]

I'm in love with the brunette chorist: 2:29

[slotmetoo]

this is a fantastic song ..one of LC best.......

[PhilsGirl100]

Couldnt agree with lostnalone more! Well said, and same here! ;)

[pjaymulholland]

@PhilsGirl100 lol yeah... Leonard is such a great poet

[maridoboa]

HARCHI NUL

[pjaymulholland]

sublime..."looks like freedom but it feels like death"...exactly:)

[1991GIFT]

Great tune I love the backing vocals and the violins great lyrics 

[tolenaars53]

Tom Jones never left the Mud

[pencooper]

I want this at my funeral ... including the video !

[stepenwolf7]

I love the lyric, I lift my glass to the awful truth that you cant reveal to the innocent youth except to say it isnt worth a dime. Pure magic

[toagne85]

i'm listenin Primus now. that's all

[westthethird]

what a sweethearted perv! Its like a guide to the game for romantics

[krabatt76]

Thank you Mr.Cohen !

[dambers1]

last one for tonight, i promise.

[edelweiss1001]

last song of the night....all true...good night

[coifgx]

i searched "closing time" in youtube, and the song closing time by semisonic was above Leonard Cohen.... people get you shit together please!

[sail1948]

@coifgx Duh !! Its not even the same song it just has the same title.

[coifgx]

@sail1948 I think you missed my point.

[sail1948]

@coifgx Yeah I think I missed your point. I thought you were saying semisonic had done a cover of Cohens closing time, obviously they havnt. I still cant see your point though. :)

[Cazzie53]

Long live Leonard Cohen. What a voice. What a performer.

[sylviawisniewski]

I think he is great,have been listening to his music for 1 year now,what a turn on :)

[spencerkicksass]

This was 'my song' of summer 2010!

[karenmacful]

ahhhh I love it!

[Brigham2u]

Its pickled eggs.....YUK!!!!

[cicciribicci]

pure poetry..

try to listen to in dark, possibly in your lover's arms

...badaboom

[skanktipple]

this is thee man!

[anneporter]

i just can't get enough of Leonard Cohen. But I love the Lisadell 31 July version. We were all with him totally, He's just so charismatic. I still cry when I watch him skip off the stage, i don't know why, he just gets to me. I don't need any other music. And the words, no one else could do it. Everyone else pales into insignifance compared..He's just a genius. the best.

[AuntPearlsGlorybox]

@anneporter Hey Anne I feel exactly the same and I dont know why either. Glad Im not alone there!

[elfynwilliams]

I do love my pickled onions

[lostnalone]

This is so sexy Leonard, I cant get enough of this song, it vibrates my inner bedsprings

[HisGibbonsVoice]

@lostnalone LOL sexy Leonard!!

[wclicker]

Happy birthday Leo!!!

[dermircro]

brilliant

[johnmckinlay67]

..opening time now !

[musicalear1]

fantastic, soooooo smmmmmmmoooooooth!!!!!

[Beniamino007]

a fucking genius ... yesterday sang here in Italy in Florence ... the first and last time in Italy ... pig god

[coolseamus]

can i work there :-)

[sofakingdrunk66]

The Johnnie Walker wisdom running high....Classic lyric...

[Exmech2]

Mr. Cohen, it always takes me a while before I can decypher the messages in many of your songs. I think I finally got this one, and yeah... yer right. So eloquently you put it. Moving on is something in between freedom and death. Well done, again, sir.

[cpm0479]

het man

[MrDogdayz77]

i was 14 when i was introduced to Mr Cohen. all thanks to a little movie called "pump up the volume"

[timsel10]

@MrDogdayz77

Pump up the volume was my first time with Mr.Cohen, as well,cant remember how old i was,but i love that movie!:-)

[margaritanewman]

he also composed opening song for show:sopranos

[mcconnc]

Lisadell was sublime last night. What a "closing" song.

[anneporter]

@mcconnc

I totally agree. pity it had to end.

[glaciola]

Aint this just beautiful ?

[monasote]

LEONARD COHEN´S MUSIC IS WONDERFUL.

[rockerman443]

dont make em like this anymore, where has the substance gone in music today.....o wait ...when media tells you that something is good ..it has to mean it rite! damn, music isnt food for the soul any more , its just a way for people to get rich off the poor saps who buy the crap they shove down our throats! o well at least we have some great music to look back on....lets hope we have some to look foward to!

[L1J2D3]

@rockerman443 Damn right... Everything seams to be about "gangsta", or sex... I hate all the music videos which show the big parties, and make girls look like objects... The songs just have no depth at all. They just go over my head... Not like this, This is brilliant... I think the current music industry is hideously misrepresenting young people (17) like myself who prefer this to the spew in the charts today. Went to see Leonard two nights ago - simply magical stuff.

[hecklovetch]

With a voice and lyrics like that, you can get away with a casio keyboard for a band!

[lgmnc]

Can't believe I've never heard this song before, total goose bumps! What an amazing combintation, that voice and those lyrics. Total surrender.

[mikethompson2400]

old school!! this song reminds me when i was really young

[pertlypink]

Ahh Leonard! The best :)

[nixperiphera1]

LITERARY ORAGSM

[madscally1]

greatest poet of our generation

[Upasionat]

Oh my goodness this man is wonderful....how could I live my life and never have heard of him before? ooohhhhh he is wonderful!!!

[anneporter]

@Upasionat I soo agree. I only "discovered" Leonard Cohen about two years ago so I know what you mean, but heh it's really brightening up my latter years (I'm 59). And there is so much to still discover. He is a genius at lyrics.

[deanerspace1231]

this song reminds me of the long drives in northern ontario... i love it... the whole future album...

[austininc457]

This is for my  Hume, at Huffington Post. I miss all my FRIENDS, and I mourn for the lost of my FRIEND........

[sylviawisniewski]

he is hot and his voice is a turn on :)

[Rhianon48]

@sylviawisniewski

The kind of voice a woman wants to hear in the middle of the night saying, "Turn over baby."

[sylviawisniewski]

friggn luv his music awsome :)

[thedagger88]

Cohen is great

[rivercryforrain]

Leonard - we love you!!!! forever!!!! You come as close to heart as a thought could be.....so close, so one with it .....

[donrob1935]

Leonard is just Bloody Great! Makes me want to have a cup of hot tea.

[hillmanranchgal]

OMG what a fabulous video and song. I am so in love with his beautiful sexy voice. 

[ckazules]

The most fabulous song of all time! Makes me sorry I stopped drinking!!!

[herbhumby]

Why Not Share This Video?

[shoppersgirlforever]

I first heard Leonard Cohen years ago on the movie Pump Up The Volume and I've loved him since.

[Kinlochbervie50]

i quite fancy a pickled egg, now!

[moishefriedman]

There's simply no one like him. But the people in his field are few. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, the storytellers, the poets, those who could match word to music to meaning.... FEW and far between.

[85Nmgn]

@moishefriedman Indeed man. Listening to his songs this evening, with a glass of wine, thinking about the woman with whom I have shared these songs, who has told me this evening she is in love with another. That's alright.

[sweetgypsywife]

Fabulous romp!!

[nisesabe]

levedad, calidad de estar contigo

[CapeRayer22]

The First Time I Heard This Song, I Was Like "What The Hell Is This?" But After getting used to it, it grew on me. Cohen's best song.

[Sevilea]

Canada kicks ass with Leanard Cohen and now we have a new up and coming star ..... Justin Bieber. they should play as a duet.

[leekadams]

@Sevilea Go away now, and stay off my Youtube...

[Sevilea]

Canada kicks ass with Leanard Cohen and now we have a new up and coming star ..... Justin Bieber. they should play as a duet.

[bloommingrose]

He is A SONG WRITER!!!!

[jfitch2007]

What a rock solid performer! Cohen's voice flows like smoke, smooth and strong; his persona immoveable int he midst of passion and disappointment. Amazing!

[paschal421]

too cool

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[sootybambam]

smoing ban killied this

[GilliceF]

What time?

[ToedDILLYBAR]

@GilliceF

Game time?

[froggi79]

best song of his for me has to be Waiting for the miracle!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gabriellebc1]

the older he gets the better he looks and sounds.

[nannyr1970]

great great song from a great poet...

[sixstringfender]

I aint a big fan. but I like this song allot.

[TheJaynethepayne]

Fantastic. I just LOVE this video, it is so alive

[17Hongo]

I think that this is possibly the sexiest song ever - it certainly leaves tom jones in the mud!

[Rhianon48]

@17Hongo

I second that.

[musicalear1]

@17Hongo oh yes lol what an amazing guy

[818creature]

one of his best songs.to me its a perfect way to describe relationships and being love or coming out of love.

[marceladns]

I love him ,his deep voice, the lyrics, and the feelings I get when I listen to his songs, all comforting

[lostnalone]

ahhh...bad kamma at closing time:) Lovely song.

[alphadot]

when i was 19-20 i didnt understand him at all, just today i said let me look him up, just in 4 years how i appreciate his words an music it makes my heart sink inside such depth Im glad now to listen to this song, and dance me to the end of love going to listen to more

[Odinsjoke]

I just recently discovered him. Was searching for K.D. Lang and her singing Hallelujah. Came across Leonard and started watching his videos. Now I can say I hooked. Wow....I am a fan of music of all types and can't believe I missed him all these years. Better late than never.....Such great music.

[Lurkage]

Great song, but... man, these are some of the most depressing lyrics I've ever heard.

[j7612206]

fuckin A

[madelinemoore]

The moon was swimming naked

The place was as empty as heaven on a Saturday night

[TheTreehaus]

He has a voice that is both comforting and sensual at once! Leonard is one of the few artists in the world who is not looking for fame or money, but to simply to share his gift.

[crazyurosh]

prelepa pesma i prelepe zene

[sabinabarbara]

bellissimo,grazie

[1234singer]

My ex-neighbour in MTL, quality man. The lyric "The Johnny Walker wisdom's running high" sums up the pointless debates that take place around tables in pubs and bars everywhere

[grismacp]

@1234singer Those debates are NEVER pointless.

[AduumbWalz]

@prammaven

haha yes that works.. in a perfect rhyme the last syllable of the words are pronounced exactly the same way. In a slant rhyme, they just have to sound somewhat similar

[SanChristoA]

@prammaven

I suppose, but between "ass sex" and "night raper," you're kind of freaking me out.

[SanChristoA]

@prammaven

Hmm... both of those are perfect rhymes, but "scraper" and "rapier" would be slant rhymes.

[SanChristoA]

@prammaven

There are perfect rhymes like "rhyme" and "lime" and then there are what's called slant rhymes, such as "rhyme" and "line." They're also referred to as "near" or "imperfect" rhymes. Make sense?

[Gaytze]

Julie and Perla, the backup singers are great, and in this number Perla is realy HOTTTTTTTT

[tonyteel]

@Gaytze If you know the names of the backup singers,would you happen to know the names any of the other people in the video,such as the person with the eye patch or older woman he dances with?

[Gaytze]

@tonyteel  Sorry, I don't have any further information about the support cast.

[SanChristoA]

Leonard Cohen is a genius. He's got rhymes so slanted, they're practically upside down. Just check out some of the couplets:

beauty, fool of me:

body, God to me

blessed, left

wrecked, next

death, guess

[spencerkicksass]

"i miss you since our place got wrecked by the winds of change and the wades of sex and it looks like freedom but it feels like death its something in-between i guess"

[master10734]

This  sounds so original

[PYSCOPOMP]

Amazing tune!!!!

[gmpm]

CANADA!

[BoboConan]

lol, i was looking for another song called closing time but i got this instead but i liked it and cooldnt stop listening

[psychomaniacward]

this is just so awesome mr.cohen if you read this you are a genious and your music is legendary and i am so glad to have come across it i wish you many long years and i hope that you tour the states again one day maybe you will come to tennessee i would love to see a real legend in concert such as yourself

[ear2ear81]

I like his voice alot. I like trying to figure out his points to some videos. There more to his songs than music.

[TheOwl1970]

THIS GUY ROCKS!!!!

[22bruser]

wicked

[lainie4]

~~*~**~*~*~* awe sweet memories..

[cdwalte]

well I just like the song and apparently so do a lot of other people also his original of haleluja was amazing too

[cdnlady7]

I loved you when our love was best and I love you now there's nothing left, but closing time.....

I've love his songs forever ....

[JoachimderZweite]

The women are great und Ich hoere einen deutschen Ton.

[chevaldemarseille]

just a gift..

[shniblob]

lol your dad raped you to this song? on your farm? shieeet.

[qTheOnep]

He could be the next God Father i think lol

[motherocean24]

This song just gives me goosebumps....it's just brilliant.

[tkh450]

amazing song, deserves more then 600 000 views, in my opinion,

[RCRamone1971]

This song...this video...very very sexy

[meoneandonly]

I remeber this party. AH!

[Djehuti8]

Ummm... Huh?

"Closing Time from the album Closing Time (C) 1992."

Closing Time was on the album The Future. Like many people my age this album was my introduction to Leonard and I wore it out repeatedly listening to this and all the other gems on it. The Future was released in 93 or 94 and I have a hard time accepting that the same version of the same song would be released on two albums so close together.

[15Ceri]

Released the year I was born, 1992 :)

[Djehuti8]

Ummm... Huh?

"Closing Time from the album Closing Time (C) 1992."

Closing Time was on the album The Future. Like many people my age this album was my introduction to Leonard and I wore it out repeatedly listening to this and all the other gems on it. The Future was released in 93 or 94 and I have a hard time accepting that the same version of the same song would be released on two albums so close together.

[dragontailjunkie]

Love the harmony along with leonard's coarse voice.

[PrZemek44]

beautiful song

beautiful clip

beautiful man... (I'm not gay... :))

[Witchywoman78]

I love Leonard Cohen's voice, one more reason why Canada kicks ass.

[obyone67]

j sus last coment harsh, its about L. Cohen , Fantastis musician, end of story, now, go to sleep boys and girls, less of the cynicism , good chaps

[ijetskilc]

One word. SEXY!!

[vivahate33]

@ijetskilc

Hell yes! ;-)

[demonsoundify]

damn, it is that time...

[MrCopperhead1861]

He has a odd voice, but its cool because of that.

[argentee]

One of my friends claims this is an allegory for the book of Revelations. Can someone give evidence for/against?

The narrator would be the Beast, the 'Very Sweet Companion' the Whore of Babylon, the bar symbolizes the world, and the 'boss' is God.

Or does my friend have toooo much time on his hands?

[iriswigle]

@argentee Boss can't be God. He would be breaking His own rules. Beast is political (book of Daniel). Whore of Babylon is the religious empire. Bonnie Tyler did a similiar vid and called it He is the King. And, where do we find the King? With the sweet companions, bedding with the whore of Babylon? Food for thought..eh?

[farmgurl01]

My Dad turned me on to this Man. Great Musician...

[Huffnhustle]

@farmgurl01, Your Dad is a great Dad who wants you to know at least some of the Great Artists.

[janengstrom69]

wauw i love this song ,te gek nummer!

[bbbsq11]

@farmgurl01 My dad too! :)

[barra112]

@farmgurl01

As a point of interest, I believe he was awarded an Order of Canada.

[1985murph]

@fa mine too! my dads irish

[gribae]

Right back at you, fucking yank bastard. Looks like you didn't learn from the tower attack, eh?

[gribae]

Yeah, keep saying that prick. It's not like you can boast at doing anything with your life, when this dribble is all you can spout from the safety of a computer in your bedroom.

How much kiddy images have you got on your desktop now?

[deanpap]

Why?

[EvilToeJam]

"and I lift my glass to the awful truth

which you can't reveal to the years of youth,

except to say 'It isn't worth a dime.'"

[gribae]

Definitely the best part to down a shot, that part of the song

[amritaSG]

amazing song writer!!

[karmacounselor]

Genius! Merci Leonard! I call this one my favorite break-up song. But it feels more than that everytime I listen to it. Thanks!

[welcometoarizonabay]

sounds like a polyphonic ringtone you'd fine on a 5 dollar go-phone.

[peachman1970]

Awful singer...terrible song...period.

Has Leonard Cohen ever sold a record?

Who would buy such crap?

[eurkzilla2]

Fuck u hatin bitch

[peachman1970]

@eurkzilla2 ...you are an idiot.

[veinknamjenbi]

@peachman1970 The first time I heard Leonard Cohen 'voice words in a somewhat melodic fashion' was when I heard a recording of 'Suzanne' in a secondhand record shop. I'd never heard anything like it, and I wanted to just sit down and catch my breath, I was so taken away. I have been 'brainwashed' ever since. So, while I recognize your right to hate the singing of whomever you choose, I urge you to acknowledge that some of us recognize in Leonard something beautiful that you, apparently, don't.

[veinknamjenbi]

@peachman1970 Oh, and (I nearly forgot!), go fuck yourself, Twice.

[cdwalte]

@peachman1970 omg r u kidding??!!!

[peachman1970]

@cdwalte ...nope...not kidding...Leonard Cohen sucks ass...horrible vocalist...an embarrassment...he doesn't even really "sing"...just voices words in a somewhat melodic fashion.