Your Favorite Leonard Cohen Line

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 6:02 am

"I loved you all my life / and that's how I want to end it."

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Aug 04, 2002 5:47 pm

"Next Tuesday, when the sun goes down, I will play the Moonlight Sonata backwards. This will reverse the effects of the world's mad plunge into suffering, for the last 200 million years."

BlueNote

Paula · Post by **Paula** » Fri Aug 09, 2002 2:29 am

And then she clearly understood if he was fire then she must be wood

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 2:46 am

There is no decent place to stand in this massacre
But if a woman should take your hand then go and stand with her

Andrew McGeever · Post by **Andrew McGeever** » Sun Sep 15, 2002 9:53 pm

It's not my favourite line, but lines, and it's not from a song. Am I cheating here? Tell me if I am, though Leonard's "I wonder how many people in this city" (from "The Spice-Box of Earth") has remained an enduring pleasure to read and inspiration to write.
So here it goes....
I WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THIS CITY

I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when I look out at the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me,
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down.

Andrew.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Sep 15, 2002 11:29 pm

I love that inevitable twist that he does. Sounds like it was written in N.Y.C. If it's a favourite and it's Cohen, it seems fair game to me for inclusion here. It's still words on paper, and I could imagine it in a song, even with him never putting it there. I enjoyed reading it.

Andrew McGeever · Post by **Andrew McGeever** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 1:28 am

Dear Elizabeth,
It is a favourite, and it is Leonard Cohen, and it is "words on paper"(sic), and it is his poem, no "ifs" about it.
Andrew.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 7:01 am

Did you take me literally on the "if," Andrew? That was a projected, "If/then" structure....."If" blah, blah, blah....[and since that criteria was, in fact, met....which I knew], "then".....[appropriate placement already in place].

P.S. I have the book. I recognized the poem. It was nice to read it here.

September_Cohen · Post by **September_Cohen** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 3:23 pm

"there is a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in"

raffzahn · Post by **raffzahn** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 3:59 pm

Where is my gypsy wife tonight?

neveranygood · Post by **neveranygood** » Tue Oct 01, 2002 6:02 am

I got this rig that runs on memories.

jurica · Post by **jurica** » Wed Jan 15, 2003 7:58 pm

Well, I found a silver needle,
I put it into my arm.
It did some good,
did some harm.
But the nights were cold
and it almost kept me warm,
how come the night is long?

wilcotree · Post by **wilcotree** » Thu Jan 16, 2003 9:41 am

It changes by my mood, today it's...

"She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters"

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:34 pm

Let's meet tomorrow if you choose,
upon the shore, beneath the bridge,
that they are building on some endless river.

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:07 am

ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paul Ostermeyer