Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen
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Album Review
Cohen, Leonard : Ten New Songs
King of misery returns from monastry with synthesizer.
Even his most optimistic fans could've been forgiven for thinking that they'd heard the last of Leonard Cohen, the most urbanely depressed of rock's elder statesmen. After all, he's just turned 67, hasn't released an album in nine years and, most pertinently, appeared to have found contentment of sorts living as a Buddhist monk in California. Fears of a red wine...
- Oct 16, 2001
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| Jun 21, 2013 00:00 | Leonard Cohen | The O2 Arena | London |
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| Aug 26, 2013 00:00 | Leonard Cohen | Bournemouth International Centre | Bournemouth | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Aug 28, 2013 00:00 | Leonard Cohen | The Brighton Centre | Brighton | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Aug 31, 2013 00:00 | Leonard Cohen | Manchester Arena | Manchester | Tickets not currently available. |
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| Sep 03, 2013 00:00 | Leonard Cohen | Motorpoint Arena Cardiff | Cardiff | Tickets not currently available. |
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Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen Lyrics
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne Lyrics
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know, she's half crazy
Leonard Cohen - Love Itself Lyrics
The light came through the window
Straight from the sun above
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of love
Leonard Cohen - Night Comes On Lyrics
I went down to the place where I knew she lay waiting
Under the marble and the snow
I said, "Mother, I'm frightened, the thunder and the lightning
I'll never come through this alone"
Leonard Cohen - Sisters of Mercy Lyrics
Oh, the Sisters of Mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought, I just cannot go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Yes I hope you run into them, you who've been traveling so long
Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne Lyrics
Won't you come over to the window, my little darling?
I'd like to try to read your palm
You know I used to think I was some kind of gypsy boy
Before I let you take me home
Leonard Cohen - Take This Longing Lyrics
Many men have loved the bells you fastened to the rein
And everyone who wanted you
They found what they will always want again
Your beauty lost to you yourself just as it was lost to them
Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz Lyrics
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where death comes to cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
Leonard Cohen - The Future Lyrics
Give me back my broken night
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to torture
Leonard Cohen - The Guests Lyrics
One by one the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few
Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song Lyrics
It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
Who said they were through with dealing
Every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man
Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song Lyrics
Well my friends are gone and my hair is gray
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song
Leonard Cohen - Waiting for The Miracle Lyrics
Baby, I've been waiting
I've been waiting night and day
I didn't see the time
I waited half my life away
Leonard Cohen - Who By Fire Lyrics
And who by fire?
Who by water?
Who in the sunshine?
Who in the night time?
Leonard Cohen - In My Secret Life Lyrics
In my secret life
In my secret life
In my secret life
In my secret life
Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will Lyrics
If it be your will, that I speak no more
And my voice be still, as it was before
I will speak no more, I shall abide until
I am spoken for, if it be your will
Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Lyrics
I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm
Yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new
In city and in forest, they smiled like me and you
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Leonard Cohen - A Partisan Lyrics
When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender
This I could not do
I took my gun and vanished
Leonard Cohen - A Thousand Kisses Deep Lyrics
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
Leonard Cohen - Ain't No Cure for Love Lyrics
I loved you for a long, long time, I know this love is real
It don't matter how it all went wrong, that don't change the way I feel
And I can't believe that time's gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of
There ain't no cure, there ain't no cure, there ain't no cure for love
Leonard Cohen - Alexandra Leaving Lyrics
Suddenly the night has grown colder
The God of love preparing to depart
Alexandra hoisted on his shoulder
They slip between the sentries of the heart
Leonard Cohen - Anthem Lyrics
The birds they sang at the break of day
"Start again", I heard them say
Don't dwell on what has passed away
Or what is yet to be
Leonard Cohen - Bird on The Wire Lyrics
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
Leonard Cohen - Closing Time Lyrics
We're drinking and we're dancing
And the band is really happening
And the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
And my very sweet companion
Leonard Cohen - Democracy Lyrics
It's coming through a hole in the air
From those nights in Tienanmen Square
It's coming from the feel
That this ain't exactly real
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows Lyrics
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat 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
Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan Lyrics
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah Lyrics
Now, I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man Lyrics
If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you
