| Leonard Cohen – Treaty Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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With regard to following verses: They’re dancing in the street, it’s Jubilee We sold ourselves for love but now we’re free I found that Jubilee is a Jewish celebration where all slaves are set free. But why says Cohen in the next verse ‘we’? Does he mean ‘me and God’ as the whole song is about him and God? How can God sell himself and thereafter become free? |
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| Leonard Cohen – Treaty Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[emptyempty:26656] Thanks and lots of enjoyment with Leonard’s songs! | |
| Leonard Cohen – Treaty Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[emptyempty:26632] I agree that this song results of Cohen’s wrestling with God during his life. He had both fantastic and very disappointing experiences with God, and now, at the end of his life, he longs for a treaty to stop the wrestling. You were my aerial could mean that God was his contact with the Universe, contact he lost since he began to doubt God is a loving being. But he doubts as well that he is not the one to blame in the fight, as he is a sinfull being. It takes a wrestling with God to create a divine song. |
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