FROM LEONARD: HAPPENS TO THE HEART
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Beautiful. A life's reckoning and re evaluation.
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Yes, Joy, for me, too, I thought... verbatim "This sounds like the 'old' Leonard." And, as I read it, I heard Leonard's voice as in A Thousand Kisses Deep, with the same rhythm and speed.
As I read comments said and quoted, I was thinking that it WAS on his next album. I guess not so, though? In any case, I don't know what's to nail that wasn't.
Thank you so much for this, Leonard. Jarkko... you've been the gateway to so many things from Leonard. Thank you once again and many times over for all you've done and do. Leonard clearly appreciates it, too.
Much love to both of you,
Lizzie xoxox
As I read comments said and quoted, I was thinking that it WAS on his next album. I guess not so, though? In any case, I don't know what's to nail that wasn't.
Thank you so much for this, Leonard. Jarkko... you've been the gateway to so many things from Leonard. Thank you once again and many times over for all you've done and do. Leonard clearly appreciates it, too.
Much love to both of you,
Lizzie xoxox
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Yes, I remember posting on the forum about this from that same RS interview:
viewtopic.php?f=82&t=35420&hilit=rolling+stone#p348282
and wondered then if we would ever get to hear that song and now here are the words. Thank you!
So visual! Those captivating lines are forming such graphic images in my mind ....
I love the overall pattern especially the imagery and rhythm.... I can easily hear and see LC reciting (or singing) the words. To me it’s a reflection on the past based somewhat on truth with the voice of experience. I truly hope it’s on the next album after You Want It Darker.
And speaking of dark, one of the lines “I should have seen it coming” is exactly the same as in Darkness on the Old Ideas album.
viewtopic.php?f=82&t=35420&hilit=rolling+stone#p348282
and wondered then if we would ever get to hear that song and now here are the words. Thank you!
So visual! Those captivating lines are forming such graphic images in my mind ....
I love the overall pattern especially the imagery and rhythm.... I can easily hear and see LC reciting (or singing) the words. To me it’s a reflection on the past based somewhat on truth with the voice of experience. I truly hope it’s on the next album after You Want It Darker.
And speaking of dark, one of the lines “I should have seen it coming” is exactly the same as in Darkness on the Old Ideas album.
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Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
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Gorgeous, wonderful poetry, as always...
I find myself reading this to the rhythm of Almost Like The Blues
I find myself reading this to the rhythm of Almost Like The Blues
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Actually, i find it impossible to read this without , in my mind's ear,hearing Leonard's beautiful voice .
I'm very grateful for that !
I'm very grateful for that !
Leonard's work resonates
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Very true, same here!cohenadmirer wrote:Actually, i find it impossible to read this without , in my mind's ear,hearing Leonard's beautiful voice .
I'm very grateful for that !
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Just noticed more people have now viewed this thread than its new album counterpart! Hope Leonard hasn't inadvertently sabotaged You Want It Darker's PR campaign...
A temporary phenomenon I'm sure but Happens in the Heart more than deserves its moment in the limelight.
A temporary phenomenon I'm sure but Happens in the Heart more than deserves its moment in the limelight.
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Not necessarily: this thread has more views, but it could be that many of the same people are coming back to this one repeatedly, perhaps to re-read the wonderful new poem numerous times. Once people have read about the new album, unless they have some inexplicable fetish about song-length that they must go on about, there is not much reason to return to that thread.JudasPriest wrote:Just noticed more people have now viewed this thread than its new album counterpart!
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Decent point Lisa....
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Thank you dear
Leonard for sharing this priceless poem with us. Thank you Jarkko for posting it. What another masterpiece from the one and only Man we all love so much. He has given us so much over the years and now this. I do too, hear his voice while reading it. It is truly a jewel.
And yes Pironi I feel the same.
Leonard for sharing this priceless poem with us. Thank you Jarkko for posting it. What another masterpiece from the one and only Man we all love so much. He has given us so much over the years and now this. I do too, hear his voice while reading it. It is truly a jewel.
And yes Pironi I feel the same.
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Exactly what I thought too!cohenadmirer wrote:
Actually, i find it impossible to read this without , in my mind's ear,hearing Leonard's beautiful voice .
I'm very grateful for that !
Thank you Leonard for sharing this with us and weaving such beauty with your words.
Leslie PY
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Not easy to understand and grasp everything at the first time. This is the good thing of Cohen. You go back to the stuff over and over again, and with the sensation that you'll always get something new, even from the same lines which will have different meanings depending on how and where you are in your personal journey...Many Thanks!
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Well put, multicolouredme.multicolouredme wrote:Beautiful. A life's reckoning and re evaluation.
Many thanks for this superb present !
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Therefore know that you must become one with the bow, and with the arrow, and with the target —
to say nothing of the horse.
♪... for a while ♪
♪... for a little while... ♪
(Just a filthy beggar blessing / What happens to the heart)
Therefore know that you must become one with the bow, and with the arrow, and with the target —
to say nothing of the horse.
♪... for a while ♪
♪... for a little while... ♪
(Just a filthy beggar blessing / What happens to the heart)
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exquisite.
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Caught it just in time.
Ps. Who is it about, Leonard?
Ps. Who is it about, Leonard?
'In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer' - Albert Camus