Which is the most sensual Cohen's song
lizzytysh
lizzytysh,
Tacoma trailer outside? Come to think of it, i'd never ever thought of it in that way. For some reason, I find all of cohen's music to be fundamentally urban. even the ones where he talks about the country (like the desert in famous blue raincoat) I get a prevalent sense of city streets, typewriters, and the like.
I always interpreted 'trailer' as a trailer in a movie. like the music was musical accompaniment to some event. but trailer as in two wheels? that probably fits better with the tacoma; i don't even know what tacoma refers to. anyway, I listened to it while imagining the outdoors. it didn't have the same power as when i think of late nights in an apartment with sparse decoration. you know?
Tacoma trailer outside? Come to think of it, i'd never ever thought of it in that way. For some reason, I find all of cohen's music to be fundamentally urban. even the ones where he talks about the country (like the desert in famous blue raincoat) I get a prevalent sense of city streets, typewriters, and the like.
I always interpreted 'trailer' as a trailer in a movie. like the music was musical accompaniment to some event. but trailer as in two wheels? that probably fits better with the tacoma; i don't even know what tacoma refers to. anyway, I listened to it while imagining the outdoors. it didn't have the same power as when i think of late nights in an apartment with sparse decoration. you know?
Style
Yes, I do, Style ~ it just happens to be that the Tacoma is a "brand"[?] of trailer [and I think now also a type of Toyota vehicle, as well], with which I happened to have a strong association. I also had never thought of it as a trailer in a movie, until I noticed your trailor spelling of it. Perhaps that is indeed how it's meant, as a trailer to the album. Doesn't it come at the end of the last side? It makes more sense the way you've described it. I didn't really mean that he meant an actual trailer, either, it's just what I always think of when I hear it. Yes, urban does seem to figure prominently with Leonard, except for Hydra, of course.
I was amazed when I learned that he had lived for awhile in the virtual woods in Tennessee [correct me if I have the state wrong] for awhile, with a horse on his land and beneath him, as well, at times. Pin-striped suit on horseback
. Then, there was his gallaaaaant entry to one of his concerts [somewhere!] on a white horse ~ due to a tie-up with traffic[?]. I want to say it was New York, but I'm more certain that I'm wrong than right on that part. Boston and another country, altogether, also come to mind. Geez.....I hate it when the details of his life start mixing and matching with me 
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~ Elizabeth
~ it just happens to be that the Tacoma is a "brand"[?] of trailer [and I think now also a type of Toyota vehicle, as well], with which I happened to have a strong association. I also had never thought of it as a trailer in a movie, until I noticed your trailor spelling of it. Perhaps that is indeed how it's meant, as a trailer to the album. Doesn't it come at the end of the last side? It makes more sense the way you've described it. I didn't really mean that he meant an actual trailer, either, it's just what I always think of when I hear it. Yes, urban does seem to figure prominently with Leonard, except for Hydra, of course. I was amazed when I learned that he had lived for awhile in the virtual woods in Tennessee [correct me if I have the state wrong] for awhile, with a horse on his land and beneath him, as well, at times. Pin-striped suit on horseback
. Then, there was his gallaaaaant entry to one of his concerts [somewhere!] on a white horse ~ due to a tie-up with traffic[?]. I want to say it was New York, but I'm more certain that I'm wrong than right on that part. Boston and another country, altogether, also come to mind. Geez.....I hate it when the details of his life start mixing and matching with me . ~ Elizabeth
to Adam
Adam...the music in that song is very sensual too then the mixture is a bomb
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I'm with you
Aisling wrote:So you're dismissing submissiveness entirely? Odd, I know a lot of women that enjoy a bit of dominance, and have never ended up with anything in an oven.lightning wrote:Cohen was being ironic about male dominance not sensual when he wrote "Lie beside me baby that's an order." Few of us like to sleep with Nazis and those that do often wind up with their heads in the oven.
I love that line, however it was meant, Dance Me to the End is great too.
I'm with you Aisling, it is ABSOLUTELY a turn on when he says lie beside me baby, that's an order.
Dance Me to End of Love is the best ever though. I heard it first on the radio in a small country town at the age of 13 and never could find out who it was that wrote/sang it. I just found out at the age of 33!!! It's been in my head that whole time and I'm in love with LC.
ZZ
What we have learned is like a handful of earth. What we have yet to learn is like the whole world. (Avvaiyar)
What we have learned is like a handful of earth. What we have yet to learn is like the whole world. (Avvaiyar)
Welcome to the Forum with your 20-year quest, Zabka 
! How did it finally come to this ? Not knowing how much you've perused the Forum yet, I can give you a bit of other good news.....you have an annual, Leonard gathering right there in Australia. See Andrew (Darby) in the Other Gatherings section. You're, of course, welcome to join us in New York in June, 2004. You'll find info on that in its own section, as well as in the Files. Either would be well worth your 20-year wait .
I am wondering [seriously] how did your 13-year-old heart perceive the song when you first heard it? What did it mean to you then? How has that changed through the years since?
~ Elizabeth
! How did it finally come to this ? Not knowing how much you've perused the Forum yet, I can give you a bit of other good news.....you have an annual, Leonard gathering right there in Australia. See Andrew (Darby) in the Other Gatherings section. You're, of course, welcome to join us in New York in June, 2004. You'll find info on that in its own section, as well as in the Files. Either would be well worth your 20-year wait .I am wondering [seriously] how did your 13-year-old heart perceive the song when you first heard it? What did it mean to you then? How has that changed through the years since?
~ Elizabeth
Hi all,
Dance me is the one. It opens all doorways for all other love songs to follow, it is the grounding uninihibited expression of love. there is great debate about Take this waltz going on at the moment and it comes an equivalent close second for many who see the adoration in the piece. I fell in love over Dance me and I am still am with both woman and artist.
Next for me is Thats no way to say goodbye, strange you might think on a topic of sensual, but this piece is full of regret and sorrow, and most importantly love, to me that is sensual. Wanting, longing, loving, sharing and living.
(TAL) KS
Dance me is the one. It opens all doorways for all other love songs to follow, it is the grounding uninihibited expression of love. there is great debate about Take this waltz going on at the moment and it comes an equivalent close second for many who see the adoration in the piece. I fell in love over Dance me and I am still am with both woman and artist.
Next for me is Thats no way to say goodbye, strange you might think on a topic of sensual, but this piece is full of regret and sorrow, and most importantly love, to me that is sensual. Wanting, longing, loving, sharing and living.
(TAL) KS