I Love Listening to Leonard Cohen

Don't matter if the road is long
Don't matter if it's steep
Don't matter if the moon is gone
And the darkness is complete
Don't matter if we lose our way
It's written that we'll meet
At least that's what I heard you say
A...

Simple.......I have a tattoo of "The Future" by leonard on my back.   enough said i think.

Friday night very talented Australian group M Camembert preformed a Leonard Cohen Show- songs and poetry at the Perth Concert Hall (they have played L Cohen festival in Canada).
Guest singer Aby Dobson took me somewhere...

I discovered Leonard Cohen at age 11 when my dad played "Suzanne" on an old record.  Something about his deep voice and the lyrics struck a chord with me and put me at ease ( I was a tense kid).  Since then I've...

And it's no complaint you hear tonight 
                            
and it's not some...

The first Leonard Cohen song I remember loving was "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye." I was a freshman in college and bought The Essential Disc One used, and it was like he was speaking directly to me, like everything I had lived had...

"but the room just filled up with mosquitos
they heard that my body was free
then I took the dust
of a long sleepless night
and I put it in your little shoe
I then (I confess)
that I tortured the dress
that you w(h)ore
for the world to...

Though this isn't Cohen, I've always loved this song and its imagery, especially the reference to Cohen.

"Under You" By Better Then Ezra

Along the edges colors blur, it seems familiar
While you read your magazine
I was...

I started early on Cohen to. I think my favourite poet/singer of all time. I listen to his songs very often. And no I don't think they are depressing at all. Often I find them enlivening and encouraging and exciting.
And that's the...

RESPONDING TO THE WORLD

I first came across Leonard Cohen in the early months of 1968 when I was living on Baffin Island.  Leonard Cohen had come to the music industry relatively late, having already established himself as a...

Simple.......I have a tattoo of "The Future" by leonard on my back.   enough said i think.