There's so much to learn from Leonard Cohen's perception of selfless love as well as Rabindranath Tagore. All the philosophers have made life so simple and found peace in pain.
When a poet becomes a song writer.......you get some amazing songs. Bob Dylan once asked Cohen how long it took him to write a specific song, and Cohen was to embarrassed to say 4 years so he cut it in half and said 2 years. Dylan nodded thoughtfully, and replied ..."I thought so."
This song has so many layers..no matter how you approach it, it's almost impossible to fuck up. I've always felt it was the scariest song I ever heard. The indescribable feeling of knowing you've been betrayed by the one you love, the one who means more to you than anything, and somehow finding the grace of love in forgiveness and acceptance. It's a beautiful description of the glory and humiliation of this unfathomable human experience. Nicely done, sincere and with the reverence it' deserves.
Totalmente d'accordo con Damien Rice, quando mette in evidenza la stupenda frase: "And thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes; I thought it was thee for good, so I never (really) tried". Fosse solo per questa meravigliosa confessione, Famous Blue Raincoat meriterebbe di essere considerata una canzone eccezionale. In ogni modo, la mia preferita in assoluto, specie interpretata da Damien Rice nel Tribute to Cohen a Montreal (novembre 2017) o dallo stesso Cohen a Monaco di Baviera, nel 1979. In entrambi i casi, bellissima voce, interpretazione perfetta, presenza scenica sobria e commovente, musicisti esperti che contribuiscono all'ambiente senza soffocare il testo, che cosa chiedere di più? GRAZIE.
Very, very few artists can touch a Cohen song (for a few reasons, some too personal) but Damien gets "it" just my opinion-miss Leonard soooooooooooooo much
Very beautiful. Another interpretation is from Aurora. She grew up with Cohen music and was asked by the organization in Norway that organized a tribute evening after Cohen's death. Also very beautiful. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Oaf0gzQSiOM.htmlsi=Xjv-fa5QuanHa33a
Great lil story time.. Leonard Cohen song.. ..”🎼Thx for the trouble you took from her eyes.. I thought it was there for good and so I never tried”... holding love and thanking another man for bringing happiness to his wife.. soooo beautiful deep sweet... I just make notes that I transfer to my Facebook.. xo.
Damien gets it and does a great job, but I think Leonard is a tough cover. Most of his material is genuinely personal and fully complete and I can't see anywhere to go with it without getting further from the core.
Cohen is writing about his own blue raincoat, he said so on numerous occasions. He never said, but either he is writing to himself, his own alter ego, or he was the one whgo shagged his friend's wife and lacking a letter of forgiveness from the friends, he is writing a letter of forgiveness to himself in his friend's place! But as if his friend did it to him, and he is doing the forgiving, as an exercise in futility cos you can't forgive yourself in place of a loved one, only in your own place. It's a song shrouded in mystery, having never been explained by Cohen, beyond: it was actually my own coat I sang about. What it for sure isn't is a song that condones whoring around a calling that love. There can be no long term love without an ample dose of forgiveness, but people who easily find excuses to lay with someone else while being in a relationship are weak and self-destructive and deserve 'punishment', a concept most of us will resort to when faced with being cheated on.
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 Well, 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
Sry but nothing can stand Leo Cohens power in this song. I gave it a try but... This song was better each year he lived with it till he passed out! RIP Leonard Cohen
