| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I always imagined the song was addressed to a woman, with whom the writer might previously have had a relationship, who then makes friends with Jane and shows her life outside her relationship with the writer. And Jane is changed and no longer fits inside the relationship. The reference to 'brother' I thought of in relation to Baudelaire 'mon semblable, mon frere'- ie this person is like a mirror image in some way of the writer, with all the ambiguity and uncertainty that that implies... anyway the song marks you... | |
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