| Leonard Cohen – Un Canadien Errant (The Lost Canadian) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A wandering Canadian, banned from his hearths, travelled while crying travelled while crying in foreign lands. One day, sad and pensive, sitting by the flowing waters, to the fleeing current he addressed these words: to the fleeing current he addressed these words: "If you see my country, my unhappy country, go tell my friends that I remember them. go tell my friends that I remember them. O days so full of charms, you have vanished... And my native land, alas! I will see it no more. And my native land, alas! I will see it no more. |
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| Leonard Cohen – I Tried to Leave You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've written many songs of parting. Don't wanna feel that I'm leaving you anywhere that I'm not going. Anyhow, this is a song of staying. It's one of those delirious songs of monotony called marriage. This is a song written out of my old age, my middle-age, my wrinkles, my weakness, and my failures called "Je voulais te quitter" (I Tried To Leave You") http://pagesperso-orange.fr/pilgraeme/ |
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| Leonard Cohen – I Tried to Leave You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's a song translated by Graeme Allwright. Originally written in french. | |
| Leonard Cohen – The Old Revolution Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it has something to do with war. "All the brave young men" would be the only ones in war, not women. I don't think he's speaking about Jews entering the gas chamber, I think it's more abstract than that, and also there would be women and children entering the gas chamber. Maybe breaking into the prision (during the Vietnam War) means not going to war and facing prison if refusing to go when drafted. There would be other draft dodgers in prison and that might be finding his "place in the chain." |
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| Leonard Cohen – Why Don't You Try Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Thank you Leonard. | |
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