I can’t make the hills
The system is shot
I’m living on pills
For which I thank G-d
I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the car
November 05, 2011
October 26, 2011
I balance on a wishing well
I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose,
yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose.
I know you’ve heard it’s over now
Leonard Cohen
October 02, 2011
September 30, 2011
do inform my loneliness
Put her somewhere
leaning against a wall
naked on your bed
dressed up for the ball
Put some thoughts
in her head
Put some money
in her hand
Be sure that you can make her come
at least a second time
Brother, that's your girl
and speak together of the coming age
when you will put on woman's flesh
and let your beauty once again engage
the courage of a heart to start a fresh
do inform my loneliness with moments
of the coming unity, do confess
your body to my utter ignorance
and rest the dreamer from his dreamlessness
Leoard Cohen
+ Morrissey: Please help the cause against the loneliness
September 29, 2011
Kiss your lover's face
I blew smoke rings into your alleged beauty, "alleged" because everyone believes in it but you and me.
Leonard Cohen
September 25, 2011
I miss you most in the morning
+ Rachael Yamagata: "Even If I Don't"
“Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there..."
Leonard Cohen
September 03, 2011
nor ever will
As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill,
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor ever will.
Leonard Cohen
August 25, 2011
August 24, 2011
Letting it go
In love with the women of other men. Once it was an affliction. I hated my envious heart. I love you J. I love you D. How brave they are, the custodians of your beauty, the men whose diaries I no longer read.
L. C.
August 07, 2011
August 02, 2011
we disappear
"We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear."
Leonard Cohen
July 22, 2011
Women and God are about the only things that interest me.
Women and God are about the only things that interest me. I think the content of everybody's heart is just the people they know or want or love and then trying to discover what is the fundamental reality in which all these other manifestations take place.
Leonard Cohen
July 20, 2011
we are women's content
I think our content is women and we are women's content. I know that my mind, my emotions are involved with a woman. Sometimes when I'm feeling strong, which is rare, I can get beyond that concern. But most of the time, what I care most about is whether or not I'm being welcomed by her and I think a lot of the time she worries about whether she is being welcomed by me. So we are each other's content and we exist in that condition, which goes all the way from grave discomfort to absolute peace and everything in between. That seems to be what the activity between a man and a woman is.
Leonard Cohen On "What the activity between a man and a woman is"
July 18, 2011
July 17, 2011
from marrow to pore, from longing to skin
Beloved, I'm yours
As I've always been
From marrow to pore
From longing to skin
Leoanrd Cohen
flowers
July 06, 2011
and every word i speak it counts against me anyhow
[ Leonard Cohen: A thousand kisses deep (recitation) ]
i know you had to lie to me
i know you had to cheat
to pose all hot and high
behind the vails of cheer deceit
our perfect porn aristocrate
so ellegant and cheap
i'm old but i'm still into that
a thousand kisses deep
i'm good at love
i'm good at hate
it's inbetween i freeze
than work it out-but it's to late
it's been to late for years
but you look good you really do
they'll love you on the street
a snowflake must have died for you
a thousand kisses deep
June 30, 2011
I wish I could say everything...in one word
"I wish I could say everything...in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end."
Leonard Cohen
sauce
June 13, 2011
June 03, 2011
.alone.
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
Leonard Cohen
By juiceboxgasoline
June 01, 2011
Beneath my hands your small breasts...
Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are the upturned bellies
of breathing fallen sparrows.
Wherever you move
I hear the sounds of closing wings
of falling wings.
I am speechless
because you have fallen beside me
because your eyelashes
are the spines of tiny fragile animals.
I dread the time
when your mouth
begins to call me hunter.
When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.
I want them
to surrender before you
the trembling rhyme of your face
from their deep caskets.
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want my body and my hands
to be pools
for your looking and laughing.
LEONARD COHEN
lachlan bailey
May 03, 2011
Another mile of silence
Maybe I'm still hurting
I can't turn the other cheek
But you know that I still love you
It's just that I can't speak
+ Leonard Cohen: Coming Back To You.live
via Pinterest
March 31, 2011
February 26, 2011
February 18, 2011
I'm aching for you baby, I can't pretend I'm not
Ruth Dolores Weiss : Ain't No Cure For Love
bartosz ludwinski
February 14, 2011
November 23, 2010
October 29, 2010
September 28, 2010
please let me come into the storm
+ Leonard Cohen - One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong.live.1968
September 21, 2010
September 12, 2010
September 08, 2010
August 11, 2010
August 01, 2010
July 31, 2010
I missed the anniversary
I missed the 7th anniversary of this blog. A Post from that summer that I liked, represented:
...not only am I lonely but alone. I am like an eye dangling by a few nerves from a man’s socket, and I long for detachment or to be part of the body whole, anything but blind useless pain. I have not given up by any means so don’t let me depress you. There are insights to be gained from the tedious chaos. I could do so without such an education but since I have no choice I might as well learn. Laughter is a first in the face of the gods and I will make those heavenly faces bloody and blue
July 03, 2010
marriage is the hottest furnace of the spirit
[ Sting: Mad About You.live ]
"I think marriage is the hottest furnace of the spirit today," Leonard Cohen said on the phone from Mexico. "Much more difficult than solitude, much more challenging for people who want to work on themselves. It's a situation in which there are no alibis, excruciating most of the time...but it's only in this situation that any kind of work can be done. Naturally I feel ambiguous about it."
Leonard Cohen
to be and to have are two different things: Tupelo Honey
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
// Herbie Hancock + Pink + John Legend: Don't Give Up
+ Leonard Cohen: First We Take Manhattan (Alternate Version)
Where are you Anne Marie F. , I miss you.....June 28, 2010
June 26, 2010
May 27, 2010
Blue is such a cold shelter
"Just the thought of you turns my world misty blue,
and the very mention of your name fans the flicker to a flame."
L. Cohen
via some required
May 06, 2010
April 16, 2010
My heart is under arrest again, My head is giving me life or death, But I can't choose
+ Foo Fighters - Best of You
Having suffered from depression during much of his life (although less so with the onset of old age), Cohen has written much (especially in his early work) about depression and suicide. The wife of the protagonist of Beautiful Losers commits a gory suicide; "Seems So Long Ago, Nancy" is about a suicide; the darkly comic "One of Us Cannot Be Wrong" mentions suicide; "Dress Rehearsal Rag" is about a last-minute decision not to commit suicide; a general atmosphere of depression pervades such songs as "Please Don't Pass Me By" and "Tonight Will Be Fine".
Who2 Biography:Leonard Cohen, Singer / Poet / Songwriter
+ LC "I was coming off amphetamine" : "One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong" (from "Live At The Isle of Wight 1970")
"I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit"
sad bunny
April 15, 2010
All My Life I've Been So Blue
"My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone."
Leonard Cohen
need a girl
March 31, 2010
comes a prayer that we'll never part
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
Punk Girl von Martin-Neuhof: andilicious.com
March 11, 2010
February 28, 2010
February 17, 2010
February 13, 2010
Love is blindess, I don't want to see
The old are kind.
The young are hot.
Love may be blind.
Desire is not.
Leonard Cohen
February 12, 2010
To those few high school girls
"To those few high school girls who preferred my work to Dylan's, I leave my stone ear and my disposable Franciscan ambitions."
Leonard Cohen
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