Here It Is Lyrics

Lyric discussion by warmPhase 

Cover art for Here It Is lyrics by Leonard Cohen

A haunting and beautiful song. I can't properly give it an interpretation based on anything but gut, emotional response.

I hear the following two words differently:

"Here, you are *hurt, And here, you are gone..."

as if pointing out time periods of change and/or death or change in a life. ...reminds me of Hitchcock's "Vertigo" where Madeleine observes her history in the cross-section of a sequoia, saying "Here, I was born and here, I died..."

" And here is the love That *lives where it will"

As if love were something fickle that may or may not enter into a life, despite our actions.