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Sorry Hartmut, good try but not that song....think about what we have recently written

The only item of clothing is associated with these words, and most applicable to one of them:
accordion, box, bias, crystal, knife, godet or inverted.

Some more descriptive words:
fragrance, fragments, coquetry, colour.
....... and an extremely tall woman

Ok, now it's very obvious. But since I have a generous disposition, I'll refrain from answering so that other participants have a chance to shine.

Hi Bev,

Obvious to me as well. As did Hartmut, I'll refrain (for the same reason).

The only song I could come up with as a solution is a relatively unknown one: "Suzanne".

Hartmut, I assumed your answer was a tongue-in-cheek one but just in case it's not, for you and everyone else

B4real wrote:....think about what we have recently written

Hartmut wrote:More hints? Ok: Cohen co-wrote that song together with someone who then recorded it.

B4real wrote:Half The Perfect World

Hartmut wrote:thanks for the dance

B4real wrote:....... and an extremely tall woman

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How dare you suggest my answer was in jest!



Clothing, box, bias: rags from Salvation Army counters
Tall woman: Our Lady of the Harbour
"think about what we have recently written": tea

Ok, I forgive you. Since your description also sort of kind of works for the song "Blue Alert", I guess.

It's one of the first songs, in a way. And the last song, in another way. It's also a song about heliocentrism and about surgery.

Much too easy, of course. Im coddling you.

Yes Hartmut, the song is Blue Alert from the album of the same name as are the other two songs recently mentioned.
For those who are wondering about the other clues:

With clothes refers to her skirt and there are different types of skirt pleats. The knife pleat is the one that is referred to by way of “Your lip is cut on the edge of her pleated skirt”....yes, knife edge pleats are extremely sharp
Without clothes refers to “nakedness”.
Religion is from the line, “You talk religion”.
A bursting charge is “shrapnel flying”.
Fragments also refers to shrapnel as well as the line, “Bits of beauty everywhere”.
Fragrance is “perfume”.
Coquetry refers to the line, “You're such a flirt”.
Colour relates to blue for the title of the song “Blue Alert”.
With that extremely tall woman, the line goes, “Her body's twenty storeys high”.

And having said all that it's back to my project and over to you Hartmut or whoever wants to post a question.

Thank you for the explanations, Bev.

I already posted a new question.

Hi Hartmut,

"You Know Who I Am" sort of fits.

It's "one of the first songs, in a way," as it's from Songs From A Room, released in 1969.

It's "the last song, in another way," well, maybe... dependent on content interpretation.

There's "heliocentrism" indicated by "you've stared at the sun."

"Surgery" comes into it with words suggestive of an abortion procedure: "and I need you to kill a chid."

Were the song to have appeared last on the album, we'd have a surer fit.

Hi Steven,

Steven wrote: "You Know Who I Am" sort of fits.

Yes, it does.

Steven wrote: It's "the last song, in another way," well, maybe... dependent on content interpretation.

It's the last song alphabetically.

At least until the song "Zut alors (If you knew how long the time is)" (LC's translation of "La Manic") from the upcoming album next year.

Steven wrote: "Surgery" comes into it with words suggestive of an abortion procedure: "and I need you to kill a chid."

I was thinking of the following lines:
And I will leave with you one broken man
Whom I will teach you to repair

Your turn now.

Hi,

What song has a possible reference to another specific L.C. song?

Hi Steven,

You got me singing
The Hallelujah hymn

?

Roman's answer is most probably the correct one.

There is also, a bit more obscurely, the Cohen / Glass piece "The Book of Longing" - which is mentioned in the song "That Don't Make It Junk" ("So I closed the Book of Longing").