Book of Longing (Song) & Puppets-YouTube (KCRW Demo Version)

[sturgess66]

Uploaded to YouTube yesterday by "TheBigJerkFace" -

Leonard Cohen - Book of Longing (KCRW Demo Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_LvBbYOuQA

The song is discussed at length in an earlier thread here at the forum and I put a link to the YouTube video there yesterday. BUT - thought I would start a new thread - most of the links in the earlier thread no longer work.

Listen to the 2nd KCRW interview
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6629

From that earlier thread - here are the lyrics -

The Book of Longing (song)

Can’t make the hills
The system is shot
I’m living on pills
For which I thank G-d

I used to be strong
Cock of the walk
But time is long gone
Past my laughing stock

I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart

My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The hand wouldn’t write
The song wouldn’t sing

My animal howls
My angel’s upset
But I’m not allowed
A trace of regret

For someone will use
What I couldn’t be
My heart will be hers
Impersonally

She’ll step on the path
She’ll see what I mean
My will cut in half
Freedom between

For less than a second
Our hearts will collide
The endless suspended
The door open wide

She will move on
with nary a care
What no one has done
She’ll heal and repair

I know she is coming
I know she will look
That is my longing
This is my book

I know she is coming
I know she will look
This was my longing
And this was my book

[Stamatina]

And just imagine I was looking for it a few weeks ago..! Thanks.

[Susy]

Hey Sturgess66,
many thanks for this video!
I sure have the Book of Longing,and love it, but I just can not stop
to listen to his voice, THAT voice gets always under my skin
Thanks and Greetings, Susanne

[sturgess66]

And now Jason (TheBigJerkface) has uploaded "Puppets."
Thank you!

Leonard Cohen - Puppets (KCRW Demo Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIMnOG6F ... re=channel

[tomsakic]

Thanks, Jason, higly appreciated! Is there a chance you can do the same with The Street, which Leonard recited in another of two 2006 interviews for KCRW radio?:)

[TheBigJerkface]

Thanks, Jason, higly appreciated! Is there a chance you can do the same with The Street, which Leonard recited in another of two 2006 interviews for KCRW radio?:)

I don't think that recitation was on the radio. So far as I know, there have only been two public recitations. One was on Norwegian TV (only one verse). I've never seen a video of this.

The other was at the Indigo bookstore in Toronto on 05/13/06 (also only one verse). From the Indigo, I only have copies of the LC and Barenaked Ladies doing Marianne, less than a minute of Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye, and a portion of Anjani and LC singing Never Got to Love You. No copy of the recitation, though they supposedly exist.

Oh, and that link that was posted earlier in this thread to another thread calling the KCRW interview the 2nd one is the only reference I have ever seen to there being two. I don't think there were. I think the only 2006 KCRW interview was the one of June 26.

[sturgess66]

"Euro Modus" has uploaded a video of "Puppets" (the KCRW soundtrack)

Puppets Poem By Leonard Cohen Of The Other Songs Album Education Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRp6DyUyntE

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Same video uploaded by "Meditatie Mindfulness"
Mindfulness Leonard Cohen Puppets Poem Of The Other Songs Album Education Only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu62wsTZAMM

Published on Oct 14, 2014

Mindfulness Leonard Cohen Puppets Poem Of The Other Songs Album Education Only

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