Your Favorite Leonard Cohen Line

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 6:14 am

tehehe - Not really. I stole that from a friend.

"I can see where you're hanging, and I think I can see how you're pinned. If you're not feeling holy, your loneliness tells you you've sinned."

That's at least ONE of my many favourites....

B

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:33 pm

" Your vision is right. My vision is wrong. I'm sorry for smudging the air with my song"

'..smudging the air....' easy to do and intriguing to imagine.

Pete

wilcotree · Post by **wilcotree** » Sun Feb 02, 2003 3:47 pm

"I was walking in New York City when I brushed up against a man"

wilcotree · Post by **wilcotree** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 6:58 pm

"I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?"

altinkum · Post by **altinkum** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 7:25 pm

She died without a whisper
also
The Johnnie Walker wisdom running high

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Feb 16, 2003 9:11 pm

"...although I wear a uniform, I was not born to fight..."

Coco · Post by **Coco** » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:32 am

"Come on back to the war."

thelonious · Post by **thelonious** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:00 pm

I am looking for the transcription of an interview, or the title of the book in which the interview can be found, with LC dating from the 80s or 90s. The book was published in Canada and was a collection of radio interviews conducted by a CBC radio personality (CBC Ottawa?) . I cannot recall the author's name or the book's title. Perhaps the interview is transcribed and appears within this site, thought I haven't found it.

Thanks so much...

Kush · Post by **Kush** » Fri Mar 07, 2003 5:06 pm

between the peanuts and the cage
between the darkness and the stage
between the hour and the age

between the dancer and his cane
between the sailboat and the drain
between the newsreel and your tiny pain

elazar · Post by **elazar** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:42 pm

"and who shall i say...is callin´?"

saluté
elazar

elazar · Post by **elazar** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:48 pm

"i saw a begger leaning on his wooden crutch he said to me you must not ask for so much...and a pretty women leaning in her darkened door,she cried to me why not ask for more?"

"i said lady unfold me"

there are sooooo many....!

saluté
elazar

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 10:27 pm

yes, elazar, the answer to this could be, "How much time do you have?" Not his line, but mine regarding his.

flannobrien · Post by **flannobrien** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 5:02 am

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

Andrew (Darby) · Post by **Andrew (Darby)** » Tue Mar 11, 2003 4:09 pm

flannobrien wrote:there's a crack in everything
that's how the light gets in

Apart from also being one of my favourite lines, I read recently that one of our contemporary high profile Australian artists (Robert Owen), who met Cohen on Hydra whilst they were residents there in 1963, has the recurring theme in his artwork of "bringing light out of darkness" and that he also loves this Cohen line. (No surprise there!

)

Not to double up though, I'd have to say that other favourite LC lines of mine are from 'Waiting For The Miracle':

"The Maestro says it's Mozart
but it sounds like bubble gum
when your waiting
for the miracle to come".

Cheers
Andrew (Darby)

flannobrien · Post by **flannobrien** » Wed Mar 12, 2003 3:45 am

I have spent some time on Hydra, the first time before I knew of the existence of Leonard Cohen. Beautiful place, beautiful harbor. I was sorry to miss the Hydra event.

I also am partial to "Democracy Is Coming to the USA." Unfortunately these days "Democracy Has Left the Building" is a more accurate line. Here's hoping against hope that disaster does not await us (as a global community) imminently.

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