My brother, on the other hand, hated it absolutely. In fact, one day, a few days after he had moved out, we were in his car and a cd played, which he had burnt himself long ago and which included Dance Me To The End Of Love in the tracklist. He said we wouldn't have time to listen to it, because the house where we were going was not far and then I told him that even if we did, I'm pretty sure he'd skip to the next song (he had got sick of Leonard's music, thanks to me). Then he turned and said "Nah, I wouldn't. Yesterday I realized I'm never going to sleep listening to Cohen again..". I found it so funny.. 
On the subject in hand, I can't go to sleep listening to Leonard as my mind would be racing too much, his songs always make me think and think. However, I do often find that when I get up in the morning I have a song going round my head (usually an angry one like Dress Rehearsal Rag as I HATE getting up!), so you're not alone Lilifyre! 
That thread title.......
(I hope you arrived back in the UK safely) 
I actually ended up having a very intense dream last night that I was at Leonard's upcoming concert in Lille and was rushing around trying to give away my two spare tickets as the show was about to start and I didn't want them to be wasted, I woke up feeling quite panicked (I do have two spare tickets but am going to try and sell them, I can't afford to be that generous!). Evidently, I was sleeping with Leonard myself last night. I awoke at roughly 4 AM with "Sisters of Mercy" playing in my head...no iPod, just my own background music. The lines are all rearranged in my mind right now and keep flooding me with the feelings of longing, gentleness, encouragement....etc.That one seems to be the appropriate verse for this thread. So whether you're sleeping with Leonard's voice sweetly caressing you, or dreaming of his body doing the same, it's alright.We weren't lovers like that
And besides it would still be alright.
I would have my mp3 player with Leonards songs on shuffle and therefore not know what was coming next. Each song song would be a pleasant surprise and I'd get more and more relaxed and soon drift of 'til that moment maybe 5 minutes or even 30 minutes later Hallelujah would start and my mind would automatically awaken and I'd find myself 100% alert singing along. As my user name suggests I am totally music mad and over the years I've often gone to bed listening to the music of various artists and fallen asleep to the tunes but never before had 1 specific song woken me the way Hallelujah does. Strange I know but for me this song transcends all others and maybe this is the reason this happens.LEONKA wrote:musicmania
rather listen to No Way To Say Goodbye and Take This Waltz, Go No More.
If you can not sleep, then dancing with Leonard.
Years ago, more years than I care to mention, I had a similar thing happen, altho not with a Leonard Cohen song. I was going to college and lived in what could best be described as a boarding house. I would listen to the radio every night, all night to fall asleep. This is when FM radio was rather new and my favorite station played various artists of the time....Dylan, Baez, Rolling Stones, Beatles, and Pink Floyd. Every Sunday night they would play Pink Floyd's "Echoes". That song would immediately wake me and keep me wide awake the rest of the night. Something about the song that made my brain NOT sleep.
