this is a novel in song form, and brilliant for all that. Cohen takes notes from his own life, and likely events in the lives of people he met along the way, to compose a complete story in five acts, from the fracturing innocence of a boy dealing with loss and horror all the way to an old man's search for peace amid the debris of regret. And always the open door of death calling to him as an escape from pain; with something always tethering him to life because it isn't yet his time.
It's one of those songs I wish Cohen had turned into a novel.
this is a novel in song form, and brilliant for all that. Cohen takes notes from his own life, and likely events in the lives of people he met along the way, to compose a complete story in five acts, from the fracturing innocence of a boy dealing with loss and horror all the way to an old man's search for peace amid the debris of regret. And always the open door of death calling to him as an escape from pain; with something always tethering him to life because it isn't yet his time.
It's one of those songs I wish Cohen had turned into a novel.