Leonard Cohen Lyrics

    ------ About the song Hallelujah performed by Leonard Cohen

Here in New Zealand we are privelleged to see on Maori Television the annual Kapa Haka contest between all the Maori tribes in NZ besides Haka the tribes perform Poi and choral work . Ive just seen a brilliant performance of Leonards song (Hellelujah) Although many Maori are Christian their history with the religion is very unique - their principal interst is in the old rather than the new testament .Check out Maori Television New Zealand - unique and fantastic entertainment Kia Ora Brent

    ------ About the song Suzanne performed by Leonard Cohen

All of these interpretations are correct and wise. The simple truth is that most men are afraid to surrender to a true love. The world is a very dangerous place and fear isn't always a bad thing. Most marriages are more like "cutting a deal" rather than a union of love. That is why the divorce rate is so high. Business deals come to closure. Suzanne is just a woman in many kinds of love. She is unimpressed with herself or the ways of the world and extremely innocent. That is why she "sees" the flowers among the garbage. Many women would turn to a man and say, "Bring me where there are beautiful flowers with no garbage". I am a bit like Suzanne, kind of like a stray dog, I appreciate every good thing that comes my way. Any wise person would succumb to such a love. One more simple truth, neither of the people in this song are really in control. Neither have a goal in mind. They are just simply blessed. A gift to each other. They will go on blindly that way forever and together they will see heros in the seaweed which the passing boats have missed. Forever children in the morning. I too am blessed in this way with my lady. God Bless our simplicity.

    ------ About the song Suzanne performed by Leonard Cohen

ah, she's admiring herself (wearing her creatively redesigned treasures from the Salvation Army) in her Siren's mirror, in keeping that she's a Siren, seducing him, a Sailor, to drown in the sea and know Jesus whom he'd dropped like a stone with his reason. In real life Leonard Cohen and Suzanne prayed together at a table with lit candles, sometimes to Jesus, and Cohen is the name of a Jewish tribe. Many of Leonard Cohen's songs involve religion. Sirens' seductions do make things seem unearthly beautiful and Suzanne showing where to look for hope, with the sun's first rays pouring down like honey on Our Lady of the Harbor (Church) and Our Lady's arms outstretched over the St. Lawrence, facing East, and the resulting submission to eternal love just blows me away.

    ------ About the song Hallelujah performed by Leonard Cohen

This is written from the story of David and Bathsheba. She lived across the way from David's Palace. Her husband was at war, she was bathing on the roof. Her temptation to him was that the marble palace and war that he reveled in as king was not what life was about, life is about experiencing love. The affair broke David's relationship with the man at war and his relationship with God. The rest of the song conveys the battle within him from that point on. Before the affair he composed songs to God and sang hallelujah. After the affair, he attempted to sing through his brokenness, confusion and pain that disloyalty and murder brought him. The song seems to shift from David's story to the story of the writer of the song. An inner struggle, almost of giving up and throwing the Hallelujahs back in the face of Heaven. In the closing verse, he realizes in his last days he stands before the God, life fully exposed, acknowledging his mistakes and once again returning hallelujahs to the God he always knew. Coming to God, broken but restored.

    ------ About the song Hallelujah performed by Leonard Cohen

a new book by Alan Light titled "The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of "Hallelujah"" (published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is part of CBS Corporation)

    ------ About the song HALLELUJAH performed by Leonard Cohen

It's hard for me to believe anyone can think at least SOME of this song isn't about sex! Good grief. It is constantly misused at ceremonies and on television. The producers of these events don't seem to bother listening to the lyrics. It's an absolutely gorgeous song, so I understand the temptation. I love Jeff Buckley's version.

    ------ About the song Waiting For The Miracle performed by Leonard Cohen

When will this song stop haunting me . Yes and on many levels.
It's a good Song , However it haunts me. No I do realize Mr.
Cohen didn't have this in mind when he wrote his "Waiting for a
Miracle".
Most of his work I have always relied upon the sarcasm that was heeped
upon himself . Some, The tounge & cheek manner in which he sang. The word play ,with that rich golden voice .
ah it's the last of the Waiting for a Miracle that haunts me .(Yes ..I'm sure)

Leonard , Where is that song you promised me ? Remember? (Long time ago)
It was to be "Hymm's for Drowning"
Your faithfull fan , Lorraine' Bennett

    ------ About the song The Traitor performed by Leonard Cohen

From The Netherlands,
for me The Traitor is about an englishman who got the scarletfever and went to fight with the Reds in Spain against Franco.

But this volunteer died when he lingered on her side (trench) and is kissed by mustard gas. He is not able to tell the other soldiers in the trench nor the ones in the lands of the mothers. Betrayed by politicians and betraying his own life with fatal daydreams.

    ------ About the song First We Take Manhattan performed by Leonard Cohen

Dear norman ; ))

remember me, we will meet latest 24- 26 august 2012 aalborg denmak, I hobe your injoy the concert tour thank you

Love peace proud pride & freedom
Your frend james goldenhart

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dk 9505 rold denmark

Ps. Iam traveling to sweeden friday with the ferry grenå-varberg depetour 13.15 oclock - train direckt to Stockholm - Borlange

PEACE & LOVE HEY HEY HEY

    ------ About the song Suzanne performed by Leonard Cohen

This poem is on levels not always parallel: Suzanne is a person Leonard Cohen knew; she is an Evangelist and a Siren (mythological creatures sailors are in fear of because Sirens lure sailors to their deaths with their beautiful singing from the waters, and are similar in appearance to mermaids). The river (in the landscape of the song the Saint Lawrence River) is Spirituality or the River of Life. “Suzanne” as a Siren (my job was Siren and there are other Sirens such as Paul) was, as Cathie (aka Donna Wilson-Tudor), absolutely like A Beautiful Mind out of touch with reality with no insight to that fact. "Just when you mean to tell her you have no love to give her" is the first logical kick to Christ’s heel that binds and makes you slave to yourself, asking “what kind of love?” with “no” in place. Before moving toward the mirror at the end of the third stanza, it should be noted that this "wavelength" of Spirituality, the River of Life answering, is non-physical and the words "perfect body" are word-play. Of course our bodies aren't perfect, the point being that one of the mirrors held in the third stanza is the mirror of Narcissism which leads sailors to their deaths. Sirens are known as always looking in their mirrors of vanity, but not so with the Siren here. This Siren is Evangelizing and holding her mirror TOWARDS all Sailors (all of you, male and female) and she is calling out from the Sea of Love (Mercy).

Jesus was a Sailor, in human form just like us, and is watching and waiting for the New Heaven and New Earth (Heaven) to be appreciated. However the Sirens’ (Evangelists) jobs have to be done during great trials and tribulations, and disciples made of ALL beforehand. The wooden tower is part of the landscape in Old Montreal, next to a church called "Our Lady of the Harbor" (in English) on the Saint Lawrence. Suzanne the Evangelist had done her work in the first stanza and you let the Spiritual River of Life answer, defying the logic that binds, and you think you can trust her and are testing the waters. In the second stanza Jesus can say "ALL shall be Sailors then so until the Sea shall FREE THEM", the same Sea of Love/Sin he sank in, the Sea of Love in which the Sirens wait, calling all out with three mirrors to be passed through (we'll save them for the end with the mention of the mirror(s)).

Jesus sank like a stone to the bottom of the Sea of Love/SIN, the DEAD SEA (metaphorically HELL until Easter) completely succumbing to Sacrificial and Unconditional Love (not erotic). In the Dead Sea, in the second stanza, as you hold onto murderous logic for Sailors (humans) you SWIM AND PLAY thinking love is erotic and kicking Christ on the heel, and since it is the DEAD SEA, you are FLOATING anyway (on one level the concentration of sea salt will not let anything sink) because of HIS MERCY although we’re born “sinners” (thinking we’re smarter). So our LOGIC (not eroticism) keeps us thrashing in water where we will not sink, and only Christ or someone who gives themselves to Him can succumb to Agape (a Greek word) Love without thinking, sinking in sin WITH LOVE when He previously WALKED ON THE FRESHWATER. There is progress in this poem about serious Evangelism: you think maybe you'll trust Him because a Siren’s having a blast (I called the dayroom the “workroom playroom dayroom”) and Rockford was relaxing when I couldn’t get a bunk and was sleeping in the brush, after being locked up so long.


In the third stanza we’re back to Suzanne picking up the ball of Trust again, and she actually takes your hand and leads you to the River of Life. The sun pours down first thing at sunrise from the East on Our Lady of the Harbor Church with Our Lady stretching her arms out over the Saint Lawrence, and there is the wooden tower with Jesus standing waiting in it (the backdrop of Suzanne’s actual home in Old Montreal). Suzanne shows where to look for hope and points up at the flower, Jesus, in the tower high above next to the church where He’s waiting for appreciation (when I realized that the Lord had taken me over completely I broke down sobbing, because I knew I had met my Maker right there at Alexian Brothers psychiatric hospital, able to tell heaven from hell [inspired by Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here]). Then things become wonderful for us with wavelengths of Spirituality, the Lord right there and not at the bottom of our sins and logic and in hell after all, and ALL wiped away clean. There are heroes in our darkness full of seaweed; there are children in our mornings as young as the youngest chick and it is sunrise right now, the sun pouring down like honey with soothing caresses. Heroes and children lean out for love forever as you, all Sailors gone on to the third stanza, see yourselves leaning out for love eternal while this Siren (“Cathie” since “Suzanne” had been chosen among several names) turns around 190 degrees all in her path and in her wake—an about-face flushing out Truth, teaching that Happiness is Contentment and is exponential 10: it builds on itself.

The three mirrors (all in one towards all directions) that a Siren tests Sailors with are:
1. The mirror of Narcissism (vanity) in which one admires oneself.
2. The careless Religious Truth; if one goes back and forth between narcissism and false religion, the Sea of Love is lost on them; back and forth to yourself and you always see your own reflection, "Lex Luthor" which is your own evil side reflected in the mirror. If you remember the 1960’s Batman with Adam West, Batman and Robin saw “Lex Luthor” whenever they were about to fight evil (the evil side of their own selves). Superman is the good side of us and Lex Luthor is our evil side.
3. Orpheus' mirror: the REAL Truth. Orpheus (myth) couldn’t resist looking and the mirror shattered. When our reflections shatter we see Truth and admit the Sea of Love (God’s Mercy), where a Siren (Cathie) was waiting in the midst of the Sea, sinking in DEAD SEA SALT because she completely gave herself to (as did her husband) and operated as did the Lord, seeing all through God’s eyes for others' sake. Having a look in the mirror of Truth, blowing on that old dandelion and sowing seeds, I too experience the Love I Preach instead of being a Desperado (Eagles) in a prison of my own making. Ringo Starr’s octopus in Shady Acres has been struck on the head by Christ, no longer grabbing innocent sea creatures with the strength of suction cups on all eight tentacles. All the creatures swim happily after ALL octopi are hit on the head with Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Beatles). No more WHOLE ROAD OF ABBYS: played backwards, last to first song, we start with Paul McCartney singing Her Majesty and end with John Lennon singing Come Together (…right now, OVER me). Well Christ hit the more popular on the head already (Genesis 3).