| Leonard Cohen – Everybody Knows Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Something about the honest, cynical truth in this song really appeals to me. I think it is the fact the everybody knows the truth about the world, even though they don’t want to admit it, deep down they all know. The honest lyrics just cut through all the backstabbing, all the pretending that something isn’t going all, all the dishonesty with each other and oneself. Whether it is a relationship, a sinking ship, a disease, or even any optimism about the world at all. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Heart with No Companion Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is less literal than some other songs and hard to attach one meaning too, but this is how I connected with it… Now I greet you from the other side Of sorrow and despair I have felt sorrow and despair, I survived, now I reach out to you With a love so vast and shattered It will reach you everywhere I have so much love left, even after it all. However, It has been so shattered that it must be capable of reaching you, wherever you are. The pieces are everywhere. And I sing this for the captain Whose ship has not been built I sing this for those that have not yet reached their ambitions, yet they will. For the mother in confusion Her cradle still unfilled For those that do not understand “in confusion” , that are mourning what will never be, no matter how hard you try “still unfilled” For the heart with no companion For those that no one understands, whose deepest longings yearn to be shared, but there is no one. For the soul without a King For those searching for values, for something to live for, something to rule their mid and decisions, their soul (could be God etc) For the prima ballerina Who cannot dance to anything Although you have the capacities to dance beautifully, you cannot. I imagine a beautiful dancer with pointe shoes on sitting on the floor hugging her legs as music comes on and off, with each song her head gets lower, no, not that. I think what he is getting at is that there is a melody of sorrow, and that once you experience despair, deep suffering, it is like no one understands. That melody of sorrow cannot be heard or understood by others, therefore you cannot dance to it. Although you are accomplished, no one will ever see. Through the days of shame that are coming Because of what you are suffering from, maybe a divorce you will be ridiculed for things will not get better right away Through the nights of wild distress You will not be able to sleep for many nights, you will agonize, debate whether you made the right choices and wrestle with God Tho' your promise count for nothing Whatever you are living for will seem like nothing You must keep it nonetheless You must keep it for the captain Whose ship has not been built For the mother in confusion Her cradle still unfilled Keep it for those that will find peace and success instead of having to go through this suffering. Keep this hope for the person you were before this happened. Keep this hope for others that will go through what you have. For the heart with no companion ... And yet, you will have no companion, you must got though this alone. I greet you from the other side ... You will survive, eventually, and those who have survived before you can at least understand that no one can understand |
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| Leonard Cohen – Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, What we had was real, I acknowledge that it was true and mutual your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm, But even then your hair, like a storm foreshadowed that we could never be a permanent couple yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new, Why do I feel like we are the only people that are hurting because we cant be together? in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, I know that countless others have felt this way, have shared love like we have, but ours cannot last as theirs might have but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, We have no choice but to separate, it could never happen and we knew it. We cannot understand, but we must accept it. your eyes are soft with sorrow, You are holding back tears, so am I, neither of us want this separation Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. Gently, I know we feel this way, but lets try to see past this I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time, This was not an affair, it was a relationship. I am not looking for another, I don’t know if what we had could be replicated walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme We will always understand each other, we shared a special connection you know my love goes with you as your love stays with me, I will never stop loving you, and I know you will never stop loving me it's just the way it changes, like the shoreline and the sea, But sometimes life is like this, and things change. We cannot do anything about it. but let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, Lets not focus on what we cannot change. We cannot untie our love, it will always exist, but lets not focus on how we must leave each other now. One of my favorite all time songs. Cohen captures perfectly how it feels when a relationship ends imperfectly that feels like it was meant to be. |
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