In My Secret Life

In My Secret Life

A Thousand kisses deep

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 thousand kisses deep

I loved you when you opened
Like a lily to the heat
You see, I'm just another snowman
Standing in the rain and sleet
Who loved you with his frozen love
His second hand physique
With all he is and all he was
A thousand kisses deep

I know you had to lie to me
I know you had to cheat
You learned it on your father's knee
And at your mother's feet
But did you have to fight your way
Across the burning street
When all our vital interests lay
A thousand kisses deep

I'm turning tricks
I'm getting fixed
I'm back on boogie street
I'd like to quit the business
But I'm in it, so to speak
The thought of you is peaceful
And the file on you complete
Except what I forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep

Don't matter if you're rich and strong
Don't matter if you're weak
Don't matter if you write a song
The nightingales repeat
Don't matter if it's nine to five
Or timeless and unique
You ditch your life to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep

The ponies run
The girls are young
The odds are there to beat
You win a while, and then it's done
Your little winning streak
And summon now to deal with your invincible defeat
You live your life as if it's real
A thousand kisses deep

I hear their voices in the wine
That sometimes did me seek
The band is playing Auld Lang Syne
But the heart will not retreat
There's no forsaking what you love
No existential leap
As witnessed here in time and blood
A thousand kisses deep

A minha discoteca: " Songs from a room " - Leonard Cohen(vinyl)

The Partisan

The Old Revolution

Ver aqui na Wikipédia.

Leonard Cohen, em Lisboa(19/07/08)

Leonard Cohen - "Take This Waltz "

«Tudo o que Cohen fazia, com o chapéu de galã e um sorriso calmo, era bem recebido pelo público. Desde a valsa oferecida com Take This Waltz, que pôs muita gente a dançar aos pares, até aos momentos em que a voz sempre viva das canções se interrompia para falar. «É uma sorte podermos ter momentos destes quando há tanto caos, escuridão e tristeza no mundo», disse, seguido de uma ovação. »

Por Catarina Homem Marques, no "Sol"Online

Leonard Cohen -" Take This Waltz "

Os videos não são do concerto em Lisboa.

Hallelujah

Rufus Wainwright

Leonard Cohen

John Cale

Jeff Buckley

"The Stranger Song" - Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen: foram reeditados os três primeiros albúns da sua discografia. Amo a sua música, sendo estes os discos que me marcaram mais. Marcelo Costa, no seu blogue Revoluttion, cultura Pop, partilha a mesma opinião.

Leonard Cohen - Isle of Wight 1970

Famous Blue Raincoat
from
Songs Of Love And Hate

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 youI'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

Leonard Cohen - "Famous Blue Raincoat" - Germany, 1979