… I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm Yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new In city and in forest they smiled like me and you But now it’s come to distances and both of us must try Your eyes are soft with sorrow Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye
And all go stumbling through that house In lonely secrecy Saying “do reveal yourself” Or “why has thou forsaken me?”
And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh, love I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, oh I need you now
All at once the torches flare The inner door flies open One by one they enter there In every style of passion
And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh, love I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, oh I need you now
And here they take their sweet repast While house and grounds dissolve And one by one the guests are cast beyond the garden wall
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
I have changed my name so often I've lost my wife and children But I have many friends And some of them are with me An old woman gave us shelter Kept us hidden in the garret Then the soldiers came She died without a whisper
Yeah, 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 comin’ on I’m just payin’ my rent every day, in the tower of song
“...I would like to remind the management that the drinks are watered and the hat-check girl has syphilis and the band is composed of former SS monsters. However since it is new year’s eve and I have lip cancer I will place my paper hat on my concussion and dance.”
Leonard Cohen
Sad songs never looked so sharp.
4 days ago | [YT] | 1,943
View 17 replies
Leonard Cohen
… I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm
Yes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new
In city and in forest they smiled like me and you
But now it’s come to distances and both of us must try
Your eyes are soft with sorrow
Hey, that’s no way to say goodbye
📸 Ralph Gibson
1973 // Montréal
6 days ago | [YT] | 2,178
View 42 replies
Leonard Cohen
And all go stumbling through that house
In lonely secrecy
Saying “do reveal yourself”
Or “why has thou forsaken me?”
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh, love I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, oh
I need you now
All at once the torches flare
The inner door flies open
One by one they enter there
In every style of passion
And no one knows where the night is going
And no one knows why the wine is flowing
Oh, love I need you, I need you, I need you, I need you, oh
I need you now
And here they take their sweet repast
While house and grounds dissolve
And one by one the guests are cast beyond the garden wall
1968 // Nashville
Photo by Tony Vaccaro
1 week ago | [YT] | 2,831
View 52 replies
Leonard Cohen
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women
There’s a shoulder where death comes to cry
There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows
There’s a tree where the doves go to die
There’s a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,770
View 63 replies
Leonard Cohen
Ah the man she wanted all her life was hanging by a thread
“I never even knew how much I wanted you,“ she said.
His muscles they were numbered and his style was obsolete.
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,267
View 47 replies
Leonard Cohen
I have changed my name so often
I've lost my wife and children
But I have many friends
And some of them are with me
An old woman gave us shelter
Kept us hidden in the garret
Then the soldiers came
She died without a whisper
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,145
View 75 replies
Leonard Cohen
Sail on, sail on
O mighty ship of state!
To the shores of need
Past the reefs of greed
Through the squalls of hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on...
4 weeks ago | [YT] | 1,812
View 40 replies
Leonard Cohen
Yeah, 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 comin’ on
I’m just payin’ my rent every day, in the tower of song
1 month ago | [YT] | 1,742
View 37 replies
Leonard Cohen
“I have tried in my way to be free”
1 month ago | [YT] | 1,592
View 24 replies
Leonard Cohen
“...I would like to remind
the management that the drinks are watered
and the hat-check girl
has syphilis
and the band is composed
of former SS monsters.
However since it is
new year’s eve
and I have lip cancer
I will place my
paper hat on my
concussion and dance.”
1 month ago | [YT] | 1,287
View 38 replies
Load more