† LEONARD COHEN

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne, and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Baby I have been here before

I know this room, I've walked this floor

I used to live alone before I knew you.

I've seen your flag on the marble arch

Love is not a victory march

It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know

What's really going on below

But now you never show it to me, do you?

And remember when I moved in with you

The holy dove was moving too

And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Maybe there’s a God above

But all I’ve ever learned from love

Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you

It’s not a cry you can hear at night

It’s not somebody who has seen the light

It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain

I don't even know the name

But if I did, well really, what's it to you?

There's a blaze of light in every word

It doesn't matter which you heard

The holy or the broken Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

† I do what I have to do to get by

"I don't remember lighting this cigarette 

and I don't remember if I'm here alone 

or waiting for someone."

† Leonard Cohen

† YOU ARE HERE

I lost my way, I forgot to call on your name.

The raw heart beat against the world, and the tears were for my lost victory. 

But you are here. You have always been here. 

The world is all forgetting, and the heart is a rage of directions, 

but your name unifies the heart, and the world is lifted into its place. 

Blessed is the one who waits in the traveller's heart for his turning.

~Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

I got an early Christmas present!!! I am seeing Leonard Cohen on Monday! Cannot tell you what that means to me. Leonard Cohen is an amazing singer/songwriter/poet and personal hero!

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin. -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 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.” - Leonard Cohen

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” - Leonard Cohen

“A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.” - Leonard Cohen

A Thousand Kisses Deep

The Future

Destroy another fetus now, We don't like children anyhow

Give me crack, Give me anal sex

Chelsea Hotel No 2

Waiting for the Miracle

Avalanche