My favorite line is, "And springtime starts and then it stops in the name of something new". It so heartwrenchingly and powerfully conveys how love can renew the world, but then if it goes bad, the world suddenly plunges into darkness. Something so horrible has happened that it upsets the very balance of nature and surely the sky itself will come crashing down.
Leonard Cohen is a master songwriter. As a singer . . . well . . . Anyway, this is one of his great works. Thankfully, it has been covered by many skilled artists.
The guy doing the intro is Ray Martin , a muckraking tabloid journalist and it really pisses me off seeing him in the same video as Leonard . The ridiculous to the sublime .
