Favourite humourous LC lyrics

[LisaLCFan]

Now, just to add to the humour of LC remember this video

We could have a whole new thread for "Funny Video Clips of Leonard," which could include the entire "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen" video!

(On an oddly related matter, I ignore the advice of The Banana Song, and keep my bananas in the fridge. They taste great cold!)

[AlanM]

Closing Time:

"And the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night"

Alan

[friscogrl]

And to add to that.

"She's a hundred, but she's wearing something tight"

Closing Time

[MaryB]

All of Dear Heather and

'Look at me Leonard'

[Goldin]

I suspect 'brief elaboration of a tube' is a hilarious too, if we could only work out what the hell it means!

source

[sturgess66]

"The present's not that pleasant
Just a lot of things to do"


THE DARKNESS

- and -

"I dreamed about you baby
You were wearing half your dress"

"Have mercy on my baby
After all I did confess"

AMEN

- and -

"And then I confess that I tortured the dress
That you wore for the world to look through"

ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG

[Leonarddicted]

"So the great affair is over,
but who ever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant
and so deeply unimpressed"

from Death Of A Ladies' Man

...it was mentioned before, but it's my absolute top favourite one, so here again it comes:

"... and I can't forget,
I can't forget,
I can't forget,
I can't forget,
but I don't remember what"

the entire "Diamonds In The Mine" lyrics


... and many, many more. My mother, by the way, cannot stop laughing at the line

"an eskimo showed me a movie"

from One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong.

[IMM]

The old improv where LC teaches the audiance to sing:
No, it wasn't any good - there's no reason why you should, remember me
to the person next to them.

[BlizzardofIce]

It was half my fault and half the atmosphere

From the Traitor.
I love that one, so many layers in that line.

[Leonarddicted]

Aah, and of cause:

I'm waited at the traffic jam
they're saving me a seat ...

[maroo]

One of the my favorite:

"let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon"

From "Dance Me to the End of Love"!!

Piero

[jazzmanchgo]

"She said there is a table set in Heaven
But I don't like to eat there all the time . . ."
-- from "Guererro" [unrecorded early version of "Iodine" -- I heard this in concert in 1975)