| Leonard Cohen – Teachers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is the song that introduced me to Leonard Cohen. It hooked and held me. The infinite search for life's lessons and knowledge that will bring us peace and comfort. Instead, we find teachers and lessons that are for others or are not what they seem at all. I met a man who lost his mind, in some lost place I had to find. "Follow me," the wise man said, but he walked behind. A descent into madness, "led" by someone who egged on until ending up in a mental hospital "Where none are sick and none are well.. Some girls wander by mistake into the mess that scalpels make. "Are you the teachers of my heart?" "We teach old hearts to break!" The splatter of heartbreak from love, of being used and tossed aside with callous disregard. He's seeking something definite, while they (the girls) just wander by mistake. The song is just so incredible, so powerful, hitting on so many levels, it's impossible not to find a commonality. | |
| Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The depth of Leonard Cohen's songs are amazing. And for the most part I don't have any complaint with the interpretations given; with the exception of this part: "And then leaning on your window sill he'll say one day you caused his will to weaken with your love and warmth and shelter And then taking from his wallet an old schedule of trains, he'll say I told you when I came I was a stranger I told you when I came I was a stranger." I take this to be when the dealer/player is breaking up with her: leaning on her window sill, blocking her view, her ability to see anything beyond what he is telling her. She caused his will to weaken. Rather than changing him for the better with her love and warmth and shelter, she's caused him to become weak and turn away from the life he has always known and loved. And then taking out an old schedule of trains he'll remind her "Hey, you knew what kind of person I was when you met me." |
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