Leonard Cohen @ WordReference Forums

[Goldin]

(1967)
And you want to travel blind
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/suzanne.493678/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... nd.314509/

He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... m.1422207/

To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... en.219321/

He was just some Joseph looking for a manger
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... r.1619060/

And then leaning on your window sill
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... re.582458/

And while he talks his dreams to sleep
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ep.605386/

You try the handle of the road
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.2841291/

Come over to the window, my little darling
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t-12746540

Your eyes are soft with sorrow
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... s.2538632/

Hey, that's no way to say goodbye
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.1365770/

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... al.393570/

With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... l.1018721/

I balance on this wishing well that all men call the world
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.1018713/

Child, you are a bone
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.2871358/

One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... g.2870174/

Is to tarnish the golden rule
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.2457498/

His spirit continues to drool
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ls.236894/

(1969)
I have saved all my ribbons for thee
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... s.2778594/

I have torn everyone who reached out for me
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... me.973967/

I don't cry no more (1994)
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... n.1348228/

(1971)
You who wish to conquer pain (...)
I who have no need
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... sh.973047/

Dress Rehearsal Rag
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... st-8512392

And I didn't feel like very much
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... h.2315748/

Did you ever go clear?
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ear.74980/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... r.1853444/

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... st-7606080
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ost-131964

Saying this she climbed inside
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... de.712777/

(1972)
They Locked Up A Man
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.2246077/

(1974)
Giving me head on the unmade bed
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ve.397531/

And all of that jiving around
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... nd.732868/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ve.397531/

Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... y.2583339/

You fixed yourself...
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... f.1040560/

I closed the book on us
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... s.1432553/

And who shall I say is calling?
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... en.298837/

(1979)
She gathered in my soul
From many a thorn, from many thickets
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... n.2580969/

But whose head is this she's dancing with on the threshing floor
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... r.1440487/

(1984)
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.1831990/

Dance me to the end of love
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ove.24735/

And they called me on that too
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... g.2646654/

It goes like this...
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... g.2546220/

The baffled king composing Hallelujah
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/baffled.2518070/

She tied you to the kitchen chair
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ir.232739/

Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ve.826227/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... a.1157221/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/outdraw.1373502/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/outdraw.2142410/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/outdrew.980094/

I'll stand before the Lord of Song
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.1988131/

When I moved in you (1994)
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... u.1273694/

And the holy dove, she was moving too (1994)
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... k.1298626/

Though your promise count for nothing
You must keep it nonetheless
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.2089442/

(1988)
First We Take Manhattan
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... n.1233769/

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.1728643/

Remember me, I brought your groceries in
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... n.1596248/

There ain't no cure for love
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... n.1348228/

I'm aching for you baby, I can't pretend I'm not
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... e.1979521/

Everybody knows
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... s.2682238/

Everybody talking to their pockets
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... s.2364723/

Give or take a night or two
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ake.66124/

Ah when you've done a line or two
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... o.2532570/

For your ribbons and bows
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ws.437460/

If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... de.712777/

And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... n.1442941/

(1992)
And they're gonna hear from me
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... u.2544813/

From the ashes of the gay
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... y.2722221/

From the wells of disappointment
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t.2381854/

(2001)
And summon now to deal
With your invincible defeat
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... l.1243929/

I'm turning tricks, I'm getting fixed
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.3082037/

Boogie Street
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t.1532422/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... p.2757779/

(2004)
Or did you report
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t.1032526/

(2012)
O see the darkness yielding
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... g.2377852/

O troubled dust concealing
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.2784193/

(live)
To pose all hot and high
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... h.2484905/

I was about 60 years old, a crazy kid with a golden dream (e.g., Oberhausen 2008)
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t-11406804

(Nirvana)
Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... d.2006755/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... ld.486128/

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don't / doesn't
(e.g., It don't matter how it all went wrong / That don't change the way I feel)
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t.2234699/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... t-14746598
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... g.1928782/
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/he-dont.1063823/

...
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/ ... m.1989296/

It's humorous, don't worry

I've googled it a bit and I couldn't find this quote..I don't think he actually said it...

[Jean Fournell]

That's a very nice collection of research work, Goldin. Thanks a lot!

Just had a look into a dozen or so of these references, and found them quite helpful.

No wonder that "One of us cannot be wrong" got no really conclusive comment — since it is a gorgeous koan, requiring a bit of homework to be done...

Here some of my second thoughts concerning:

"Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows"

and concerning:

"Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song"

They are both on the album "I'm Your Man", with the title song saying:

"If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you"

Now Paul Simon, in his song "The Boxer", says:

"I am just a poor boy
Though my story’s seldom told
I have squandered my resistance
For a pocketful of mumbles
Such are promises
All lies and jest
Still, a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest"

and:

"Asking only workman’s wages
I come looking for a job
But I get no offers
Just a come-on from the whores on Seventh Avenue
I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome
I took some comfort there"

But Seventh Avenue in New York City, to my very best knowledge, is not exactly a red-light district; and so the "whores" are presumably not exactly normal streetwalkers, mothering "a poor boy" (nor a grey-haired man)...