Leonard Cohen Concert Sunday 15th June 2008
Kilmainham Dublin
Ok! Competition time:
How many people on the move while Leonard performs Bird On A Wire. Find how many were walking and how many were...
Leonard Cohen Concert Sunday 15th June 2008 Kilmainham Dublin
Ok! Competition time: How many people on the move while Leonard performs Bird On A Wire. Find how many were walking and how many were running? How many flags? And where were all these people going? It's very difficult to count them at the end, they are coming and going from all directions. Imagine if you were at a concert in the Opera House and everybody walking and running all over the place. There wouldn't be many left in the theatre, as most would be evicted.
The prize for the correct answer is a cookie! (= an eCookie )
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Bird On A Wire From Songs From A Room (1969)
LYRICS
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. Like a worm on a hook, like a knight from some old fashioned book I have saved all my ribbons for thee. If I, if I have been unkind, I hope that you can just let it go by. If I, if I have been untrue I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby, stillborn, like a beast with his horn I have torn everyone who reached out for me. But I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong I will make it all up to thee. I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, he said to me, "You must not ask for so much." And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
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iGaucho - Thank you for this. I'm a big fan of Mr. Cohen's. Don't know how I missed this clip - it's brilliant imo. Apologies to Stitchkneemcgee, but I quite like the bubbles - very tongue-in-cheek with a glimpse of igaucho's personality - makes me feel like I was at the concert with a very good friend. Thanks again - lmao.
Thank you Beverlyc3 for your kind comments. I was just having a bit of a laugh, i'm glad you enjoyed. That concert was the best i was ever at. It was my woodstock! It rained throughout the concert but it was just great to be there to see the great man live. I saw him in Berlin also. Would have followed him all over Europe if I could have afforded it. May he continue to give us great music for years to come.
Oh yah - the annotations on the vid you deposited here, like a turd in a punch bowl, are really useful. Useful for gauging your usefulness to art, culture, and humanity. Please get yourself sterilized before you have children.
You do not deserve to ever have heard this song. You do not deserve to have a working pair of ears.
You do not deserve to have a working brain, but thankfully, God has already taken care of that.
The irony is that the idiot who annotated this video with these comments is doing exactly the same thing as the "down in front" idiots he is commenting on.
hope the Master is ok after his fall last ngt in spain, it was a shock hearing it on the news this morning, also big HAPPY BIRTHDAY for tomor Mr C 75th year celebrations go out to you, saw his gigs at the o2 also this year, anywho who could fooking believe the day we'ed get him back to Irish Shores for gigs, IMMA was an amazing experience and I think these gigs in 008/08 were better than the ones in the National Stadium 17 year ago, we had these two fookin bastard cuntz talking the hole way tru
Sorry, gave you a thumbs-down instead of the intended thumbs-up. This is one of my all-time favourites and I cried when I heard him perform it live last year. It may not be his most lyrical piece, but I have always felt that it is my anthem and strikes a chord deep within my soul. A great man indeed.
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You do not deserve to ever have heard this song. You do not deserve to have a working pair of ears.
You do not deserve to have a working brain, but thankfully, God has already taken care of that.
Let's hear it for brain cell death.