Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Live 1979) w/ lyrics

Outstanding live performance of Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen on German TV

Lyrics:

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

Sincerely, L. Cohen



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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Leonard
• Cohen
• Famous
• Blue
• Raincoat
• hallelujah
• suzanne
• live
• 1979
• closing
• time

[thecrowdgasps]

THIS IS SO AMAZING. 'What can I tell you, my brother, my killer/ I guess I miss you, I guess I forgive you/ i'm glad you stood in my way.'

UGH. SLAYS ME. Amazing. Amazing.

[didik79]

^^Wooooooow!!!!

This awesome record was produced in the year when i was born... - maybe this is the connection to this song? ...maybe i've been a thought - a flashlight in cohen's brain before i was born? i don't know and i can't explain, but there's some special link ;o))

yesterday, when i bought new strings for my guitar, i recognized the guitar hanging there on the wall - reminded me to anything - today i know, that's been a Godin... the very rare nylon-string-guitar from his 2008/2009 tour

[katsavoinen]

I am listening to that for a week now. Amazing Cohen's lyrics...

[argedino3]

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair

She said that you gave it to her

That night that you planned to go clear

Did you ever go clear?

[mamabari07]

BEST EVER version..

[crystalship40]

Are you living for nothing now???

For such is our existential condition, shall we live for something or nothing...

Such is that which defines our existence.

Therefore, this song speaks to our very being...Being in general...forever...

Thanks Leonard!