"Suzanne" - Isle of Wight performance (1970) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_56ep729TE - Live in London (2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snMOmHzgssk
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.
You can hear the boats go by,
You can spend the night beside her,
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there,
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China.
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover.
And you want to travel with her,
And you want to travel blind,
And you know that she will trust you,
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
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First words of his speech accepting the Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist in Canada (1992)
"You Want It Darker"
You Want It Darker (2016)
"The Stranger Song" (1966)
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
“It's you my love, you who are the stranger.”
"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
"First We Take Manhattan"
I'm Your Man (1988)
"Waiting for the Miracle" (co-written with Sharon Robinson)
The Future (1992)
"I'm Your Man"
I'm Your Man (1988)
“At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again.”
Variant: first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again
Source: Book of Longing
“The sweetest little song:
You go your way
I'll go your way too!”
Variant: You go your way
I'll go your way too
Source: Book of Longing
“Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah”
Source: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs
“Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.”
Source: Selected Poems 1956-1968