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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.
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.
Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.
Pretty sure I am going to continue to want to hear Leonard or Judy's versions over time, but happy to hear one of the best written songs being reinvented, albeit slightly. Plus harmony.
I think it is telling when a cover makes you want to pause the RP stream to go back and hear an earlier version. Not sure what it tells me about this version beyond the fact that they found something different.
I have always felt that one of the higher aspirations of art should be to provoke a multiplicity of interpretations., but as our dearly departed Mr. Cohen once recognized - I want it darker.
...time passes... slightly more than 3:47 of it...
I went for another cover. Very satisfying cleansing of the aural palette, I now realize.
London/2008:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...(Leonard_Cohen_album)
...more time passess...
YouTube music follows up my random selection with Forever Young from the Last Waltz concert. A segue BillG might even have curated, but I will be back on the RP stream as soon as it ends. Honest. God, a lot of shit sucks here in the future (or your past, dear reader), but access to the 1000x more music at 100x the sonic fidelity of my youth is an unimaginably beautiful thing to have come to pass. Robbie is nailing the harmonics once again, but I will be back on stream...NOW.
That's an interesting ramble, and I'm trying to like this version more.
What I do want to add is that Forever Young is Dylan at his accessible best and Indigenous Canadian Robbie Robertson is always understating himself. Dylan wrote it for one of his kids.
I've often wanted to sing Forever Young to my daughter but couldn't keep it together long enough to get past the first few words.
I think it is telling when a cover makes you want to pause the RP stream to go back and hear an earlier version. Not sure what it tells me about this version beyond the fact that they found something different.
I have always felt that one of the higher aspirations of art should be to provoke a multiplicity of interpretations., but as our dearly departed Mr. Cohen once recognized - I want it darker.
...time passes... slightly more than 3:47 of it...
I went for another cover. Very satisfying cleansing of the aural palette, I now realize.
London/2008:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...(Leonard_Cohen_album)
...more time passess...
YouTube music follows up my random selection with Forever Young from the Last Waltz concert. A segue BillG might even have curated, but I will be back on the RP stream as soon as it ends. Honest. God, a lot of shit sucks here in the future (or your past, dear reader), but access to the 1000x more music at 100x the sonic fidelity of my youth is an unimaginably beautiful thing to have come to pass. Robbie is nailing the harmonics once again, but I will be back on stream...NOW.
thats the way it should be
I don't know what it is exactly, but this cover absolutely does it for me. Sublime.
I agree!
I don't know what it is exactly, but this cover absolutely does it for me. Sublime.
Cannot tolerate that accent. Weird but there it is.
Oh yeah. Not crazy about those harmonies either.
They probably don't like your accent either.
Oh yeah. Not crazy about those harmonies either.
A nice version. So Long Marianne from the same album is exceptional (although I prefer LC’s versions in both cases).
I looked it up on YouTube, absolutely brilliant. I saw Cohen at his last show in Milwaukee, my future wife was tearing up during So Long Marianne so the song has a special spot in my heart.
Great harmonies, but to me it is exhausting to listen to them harmonize every word in the song.
The first verse is not harmonized,: I'm not sure if that alleviates it for you.
Great harmonies, but to me it is exhausting to listen to them harmonize every word in the song.
The harmonies didn't bother me, but the choice to sing up an octave on miiiIIIND did bug me. It just doesn't fit the mood of the lyrics for me. Kind of like someone choosing to cover the Ray Lamontagne song as: Be here nooOOOW!
Great harmonies, but to me it is exhausting to listen to them harmonize every word in the song.
isn't that what Simon & Garfunkel did? And even better...
100% agree.
100% disagree
Leonard Cohen songs are much better when sung by someone other than Leonard Cohen.
100% agree.
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