Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen

The video is from the Movie "Macabe and Mrs. Miller - Warren Beatty and Julie Christie - they opened a "house" in 19th century Oregon. They used this song and many other Leonard Cohen tunes as the backdrop. That's why y'all think it's about prostitutes.

Reductive?! Come to Norway, a land where all is reduced and streamlined until it's about money or nothing at all. Are you a publisher? Have all your books translated to Norwegian and then have them quote/sell it all back to you as though they were theirs to start with. Ahh, so streamlined. So effektivt! So ... reduced.

It's not "ABOUT" prostitutes. Cohen said some young women were stranded during a snowstorm and he invited them to stay in his hotel room. They slept and he wrote this song--he claims--the fastest of any he's ever done. Besides, saying a song is "About" something ruins it. Try checking out the amazing poetry, alliteration and imagery. And this gorgeous melody. Don't be so reductive.

HeHe,

There is no difference between them...

I think perdidoFantasma could easily be right. I'm sure that Eldritch of The Sisters listened to Cohen now and then - just as I know from what I read that he listened to Nick Cave. Secondly, the lines from Cohen's song: 'It won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night... We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be alright'  could give a clue to what it's about. But then again I never thought about it before. So thanks for the reminder, Spectrum99122

Oh yeah, and this album, "Songs of Leonard Cohen" came out the same year as "Velvet Underground and Nico". (Thanks to my buddy VLU for pointing that out!)

Yeah, I get it. I think John Cale would've had fun this tune.

ahhm i think you a re a bit wrong, sisters of mercy is a completely different band.. Leonard Cohen did this song, whose name is the same as the band's, but they are not related in any way

As far as I know the band was named after this song. The titel of an album from the sisters of mercy Some Girls Wander By Mistake is also a reference to a leonard cohen song