Leonard Cohen------Come Healing.wmv

From Leonard's great new album....Old Ideas

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[marjanmarianne]

Come Healing

O gather up the brokenness

And bring it to me now

The fragrance of those promises

You never dared to vow

[marjanmarianne]

The splinters that you carry The cross you left behind Come healing of the body Come healing of the mind And let the heavens hear it The penitential hymn Come healing of the spirit Come healing of the limb Behold the gates of mercy In arbitrary space And none of us deserving The cruelty or the grace

[marjanmarianne]

O solitude of longing Where love has been confined Come healing of the body Come healing of the mind O see the darkness yielding That tore the light apart Come healing of the reason Come healing of the heart O troubled dust concealing An undivided love The Heart beneath is teaching To the broken Heart above

[marjanmarianne]

O let the heavens falter And let the earth proclaim: Come healing of the Altar Come healing of the Name O longing of the branches To lift the little bud O longing of the arteries To purify the blood And let the heavens hear it The penitential hymn Come healing of the spirit Come healing of the limb

[dummermut]

...and no one of us deserving the cruelty or the grace... So true, so simple, so wise.

[livingcircle]

It's not just that the words and music touch on truly felt meanings, but that its all coming from a place that feels and lives it.

Not believes it - but lives it.

Perhaps truer to say 'It lives him' - for that's the only way to really know life, humanly and Divinely, so intimately.

Intimacy shared with a wry humour and a scathing capacity to feel all of it and yet sing from somewhere beyond all definitions - with such eloquence.

I forgive him his drum machine and his little keyboard.

;-)

[KajaGeek]

Speechless....

[birdstuckinchimney]

I also gotta say that whoever is doing his arrangements nowadays needs an award

[birdstuckinchimney]

There was a time when I thought that Dylan would, *for me*, always be the paramount Jewish/American song writer, with Berlin 2nd, the Girshwins 3rd and Cohen a distant 4th. Somehow that's all changed and I'm not sure why but nowadays His-Leonardnis is right up there in my feelings of affection with the Bobmeister. Songs like this bring me to my knees and help me pray...thanks Mr Cohen

[damronormad]

Outstanding!

[LightReaping]

Now this is what you would call music!!!!!

[scooternelly]

Absolutely breathtaking, unique and truly beautiful.

[thebanshee62]

So beautiful