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Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker Lyrics 8 years ago
Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
I believe he may be referring to the SHOAH = Holocaust and ages-long persecution of the Jews:

"Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the love that never came
You want it darker
We kill the flame"

"Magnified, Sanctified be thy holy name" is a straight English translation of the first four words of the Kaddish, a Jewish prayer for the dead
"A million candles burning for the love that never came" - 6 million were were not saved - at the Jerusalem memorial 1 1/2 million candles are burning to commemorate the murdered children.

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