In memory of Leonard Cohen.

RJF · 13-11-2016 7:57pm #1

Just a few words inspired by the works of Leonard Cohen
May he rest in love and peace.

As I fell into oblivion, I threw a last thought to you
Spiraling through the tears of the nights drunken emotion
Not content with simple love
I looked to build a cathedral
to passionate pain
and searing hurt
To true love found
And lost again
To all that I can never have
to all I've had and taken too
And upon that high alter
I place my beating heart
An offering to your convenience
For you to use
As you see fit
Or abuse
In moments of lost devotion.

Temptamperu · 13-11-2016 8:14pm

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-11-2016 8:17pm

That does no justice to Cohen's work.

Duckworth_Luas · 13-11-2016 8:19pm

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
First we take Manhatten,
Then we take Berlin.

lawlolawl · 13-11-2016 8:21pm

I took a really horrific diarrhea ****e earlier on today and it was better than anything Leonard Cohen ever did.

Ted111 · 13-11-2016 8:25pm

Oh captain, my captain.

13-11-2016 8:31pm

And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.:P

murpho999 · 13-11-2016 9:29pm

lawlolawl wrote: »

I took a really horrific diarrhea ****e earlier on today and it was better than anything Leonard Cohen ever did.

I hate that the internet gives people like this a platform.

Ulysses Gaze · 13-11-2016 9:36pm

murpho999 wrote: »

I hate that the internet gives people like this a platform.

Well you could just No Platform the poster.....

boobar · 13-11-2016 9:48pm

And I said to Hank Williams how lonely does it get...

Hank Williams hasn't answered me yet.

boobar · 13-11-2016 9:52pm

If the sun would lose its light
And we lived an endless night
And there was nothing left that you could feel
That's how it would be
What my life would seem to me
If I didn't have your love to make it real

If the stars were all unpinned
And a cold and bitter wind
Swallowed up the world without a trace
Ah, well that's where I would be
What my life would seem to me
If I couldn't lift the veil and see your face

And if no leaves were on the tree
And no water in the sea
And the break of day had nothing to reveal
That's how broken I would be
What my life would seem to me
If I didn't have your love to make it real

If the sun would lose its light
And we lived in an endless night
And there was nothing left that you could feel
If the sea were sand alone
And the flowers made of stone
And no one that you hurt could ever heal
Well that's how broken I would be
What my life would seem to me
If I didn't have your love to make it real

Ted111 · 14-11-2016 4:27am

You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
you know Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows
All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say,
Rudolph with your nose so bright,
Won't you guide my sleigh tonight
Then how all the reindeer loved him,
As they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the red-nose Reindeer
You'll go down in history
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it,
You would even say it glows,
And all of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names,
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games,
Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say,
Rudolph with your nose so bright,
Wont you guide my sleigh tonight
Then how all the reindeer loved him,
As they shouted out with glee,
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
You'll go down in history

biko · 14-11-2016 9:23am

Les Allemands étaient chez moi
ils m'ont dit "Résigne-toi"
mais je n'ai pas pu
j'ai repris mon arme

J'ai changé cent fois de nom
j'ai perdu femme et enfants
mais j'ai tant d'amis
j'ai la France entière

Un vieil homme dans un grenier
pour la nuit nous a cachés
les Allemands l'ont pris
il est mort sans surprise

Advbrd · 14-11-2016 9:25am

Temptamperu wrote: »

How mature.

Advbrd · 14-11-2016 9:26am

lawlolawl wrote: »

I took a really horrific diarrhea ****e earlier on today and it was better than anything Leonard Cohen ever did.

Just... wow.

gramar · 14-11-2016 10:03am

So in the night I stand beneath the backstreet light
I read the words that you sent to me
I can take the afternoon, the night time comes around
too soon
You can't know what you mean to me

Since you've been Cohen....Rainbow

take everything · 14-11-2016 10:14am

Read all the stuff about him in the papers over the weekend and even though i never got into his music, he seemed like such an interesting and cool guy.