Leonard Cohen's Divergent & Devastating Version Of "So Long, Marianne" - Oslo 1993 

Leonard will never be gone.

He went out on the day that Trump was elected.

AllanaGaming beautifully put

Well Put.

yes

AllanaGaming i

Both the song and the comment; all I can say is beautiful.

Such a touching letter...and little did we know it would be so close.

He had terminal cancer so he DID know....

It seems to be a reference to a poem by Fernando Pessoa. I don't know the original portugese version, but in Italian the lines read: "Se potessi tendere la mia mano fino a toccare le tue sarebbe come lo spuntar del giorno dietro le torri di qualche città dell’Oriente". "If only I could stretch out my hand to the point where it reaches your hands, it would be like the day breaking behind the towers of some Oriental city".

Beautiful

Beautiful, thanks for sharing this.

Renaissance man and also a highly Romantic man : what kind of a true artist!

Now he is in another plane of existence, but his words are now ours forever. The World is a much better place for having him share his insightfulness with us. RIP Leonard. Peace.

Phizeke S : Actually Phizeke S. his words will in this earth will not " be ours forever " they are never ours by ownership either. However dear they were left here for us to listen to as much as they are here for future generations ... hopefully to listen to one of the greatest Prophets ever to do more than simply scathe the surface of of human life and existence also to open windows, doors, cracks and whatever he still can to the celestial 'Life after Life' . I have loved Leonard since a young girl I will forever love Leonard . His magnitude of depth ~ perception of truth (as he said during an interview) when questioned as to if he thought he was an honest man: " to be Honest in this business is very difficult". He has hit every nail of Truth with his hammer of words and hasn't bitten his tongue by missing the purpose of his appointment here amongst us. Leonard should have been Internationally Famous thirty - forty years ago ... he came to this world enlightened and left that enlightenment behind him as he entered the Celestial realm and the physical/spiritual dirt ~ filth even of this earth was blown away from him by the Holy Wind ( I do not mean " Structured Religion's holiness " I mean the breath in your lungs that no one lives w/out ~ if not for Creators Holy Wind our breathing would cease . Leonard knew this and shared " religious experiences with all religions/peoples/race/creed/color. He wrote too that: " There is no heaven above us and there is is no hell below. ~ I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible " ~ We who cried for mercy from the bottom of the pit were our prayers so damn unworthy that the son rejected it' ? ~ he should be remembered in part as ' the man who told the truth thousand ways , in many spoken and written languages . He got his message across even if he had to become your religion to prove it or to assure himself you were comfortable with him shape shifter. Yes he would even become a sheep in wolves clothing to fulfill his purpose of delivering ' the Truth' err go no matter where he is in the Celestial Realm I will forever love him as I did forty five years ago knowing I will see him again 🦅 🖤 🔥 walking through wormholes in new dimensions w/out skin ...

Quite a lot you say here. Actually I didn't read beyond the second sentence because it is nonsense. I am seriously thinking that you know nor understand anything about him.

Phizeke S Jim

Me, too. First time I saw him perform was in 1967 in Vancouver, B.C. The last time I saw him perform was in Seattle in 2013. There is a hole in the world.

Wonderfully said...same here...

Me too My transformation belong to this song.

Could not be said any better. Thanks Esther.

Yes Me too I miss him

;--) me too!

Kim{male}Swales: Not "weird", man, "ENLIGHTENED"!!! One needs a special Spirit to really hear these words and we have that! I still cry over the loss of this great man of words and melodies. It's prob'ly been a bother for you (named my daughter Christian), but I love your name! HES{female}McMillan

Kim: So sorry for your loss. So many miss him.

Hes McMillan you're right a lot! I agree totally

Well said my man

marco brenni

Giannip45 Leonard is up there in heaven. When I must go too, I want to that part where you are. If they let me enter the gate too. You, Leonard, have given to me so much comfort in life on earth. I need it there too.

Peder Lettstroem and

he knew he had cancer and was dying when he wrote his last letter to Marianne.......

Mongoose 218 Sadly yes he did. His last interview talked about how much pain he was in. He gave us such beautiful songs. I would love to hear a good female or make singer record them. Our love to you L. Cohen.

Giannip45 💌

Joan Lawrence-Studebaker blue alert

not even matured enough to not use the F word in public? It contributes nothing to your otherwise acceptable comment.

Well, hello, Societal Word Policeman! LOL. As is evident from the punctuation, it is a quote of Mr. Cohen. It expresses a certain feeling, perfectly. Learn the language.

@William: Not even mature enough to recognize when the F word is used in a justifiable context. Grow up.

Comer----hilarious

Rosalie DeGregory m

non ci sarà mai più un uomo come te Leonard

Tara Gď1reene "Tara Tarot" Astrologer Psychic Consultant fygg5

seriously?

Marianne died last week.

Allan Show

See an article about his last letter to her, his life long friend and muse: (and lover for 10 years): www.telegraph.Co.Uk/news/2016/08/07/so-long-marianne-leonard-cohens-final-letter-to-dying-muse/ In it, written 6 weeks before he died, right after she had died, he wrote: ""It said, 'Well Marianne, it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine. "And you know that I've always loved you for your beauty and for your wisdom, but I don't need to say anything more about that because you know all about that. But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey. "Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road."'

So sad - may they both Rest In Peace. together. I believe it.

Kathy Gabriel

May be, with Janis Joplin too.

Why not.

Tom Albanese one would hope so; unfortunately Leonard does not believe in God or the after life like some people do, so maybe he will not meet with Marianne; but I would love to think he will take care my friend

actually, if you read Sylvie Simmon's bio of him, "I'm your man" you wouldn't say that, he was an observant Jew all his life as well as a Buddhist monk for many years!

What did he believe when he died. I have just found this recently, I have heard by hundred artist's, but really never listen to the words. I have now. I believe he is with God in Heaven

I understand what you say. I also understand that I don't miss him at all for all he has left us to continue to enjoy. Those who truly miss him are the unexposed, those who don't or can't "get it" for whatever reason. I'm grateful we do get it. He will always be with us.

I believe she was 81

Yes she was 81, the 18th of May 2016

What's a decade here or there? But wait a minute. I don't have more than two or three decades left to go, regardless of how you cut the mustard. If I have 3 decades, do I really want to be maintaining a simulacrum of life in this third decade?

"I don't have more than two or three decades left to go" Who knows? Some people say science is approaching the point that we'll even beat mortality. Others say that our bodies might inevitably die, but we might be able to save our consciousnesses in the cloud, and achieve some kind of permanence that way. One way or another, there's a very good chance that some of the people in the world today will never pass. Too soon to say -- but we'll all find out at some point, won't we?

81

Robert Mcintyre m

Didn't know that.......how sad. Thanks for sharing it.

I don't think you understood what it was that was important to focus on.