Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan

Example, the monkey, I'm assuming is/was his drug addiction. etc. Please grow up, age has nothing to do with talent. When one is young they never think they will age. Cohen is 75, got ripped off for his life savings, by his manager Kelly Lynch, and has to go out and hustle all over again at his age. I know I will hold a wake if Cohen dies. To me he is irreplacible. One has to really listen to his music to catch his drift and even then you may have it wrong. He will live forever in my heart.

Cohen songs always have a deeper meaning that what is on the surface. If you've read some of his books with the commentaries you would see this. The Traitor, he says is sometimes one believes they are supposed to do one thing, and then find out the thing they thought they were called to do was not so, and they end up doing the opposite, thus the traitor, but that was really what they were meant to do, not what they thought. I'm paraphazing here, but he is deeper than on the surface of songs

Leonard Cohen is addictive. Your first thought is that other people sing his songs so much better than his monotone. But I find I play his recordings over and over and over.

His voice is like no other man's on this Earth. No one can compare!

Great song

well you got manhattan. you got palestine.

all i see is more drugs and more fashion and more vanity.

oh well. his everybody knows song is classic

I went to the Vegas US show on Thursday. Best f'n concert I ever been to.

I think his concert version blows his original song out the water.

I think Jeff Buckley did very good justice to Hallelujah don't you? I know this song has an 80's sound but his voice, the way he delivers the lines make it different to the other 80s stuff.