What's your favourite Leonard Cohen lyric /mu/?

''My father held a gun to his head, and my father assured the bandleader that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract.”

>>68671474
If you're gonna make the joke at least make it a fucking Adam Sandler one cumshite.

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>>68671507
Sandler is an unfunny retard, shit actor and Pacino looks more like him

"But you stand there so nice
In your blizzard of ice
Oh please let me come in to the storm"

"And then leaning on your windowsill
He'll say one day you caused his will
To weaken with your love and warmth and shelter"

"And you won't make me jealous if I heard that they sweetened your night
We weren't lovers like that
And besides it would be still all right"

"And your fine spiderweb
Is fastening my ankle to a stone"

"Like a baby stillborn
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me"

"Some women wait for Jesus
And some women wait for Cain
So I hang upon my altar
And I hoist my axe again"

And of course:
"Myself, I long for love and light
But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright"

nevermind

"It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better"

>>68671453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they're the crumbs I've left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it's just the shadow, shadow of my wound

>>68671765
Yeah pretty good too

I dig the new album, what else should I check out?

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever
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 he gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer that you've always been her lover
so the first one, I guess.

>>68671453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2wmKcBm4Ik

>>68671765
Avalanche is the best song ever written.

"I have begun, to long for you, I who have no greed
I have begun, to ask for you, I who have no need
You say you've gone away from me but I can feel you, when you breathe"

>>68671814
>>68671765
what is Avalanche about?

>>68671845
Self-loathing

>>68671845
The original poem is about depression, but I always took the song to be written from the perspective of God, or at least a God like objectivity

>>68671791
Check his first four albums, particularly the third.

>>68671814
i agree

>>68671453
I've heard the soul unfolds
In the chambers of its longing
And the bitter liquor sweetens
In the hammered cup
But all the ladders
Of the night have fallen
Only darkness now
To lift the longing up

Don't know if it's my absolute favorite, but it's definitely up there.

>>68671791
If you like the new album, I'm Your Man and the Future are probably the best transition albums between folk and neo-Lenny

>>68671791
Most of them.

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>>68671927

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

>>68671695
That whole song man
>Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
>I thought it was there for good so I never tried

Also, while not strictly a Cohen song, this line always hit me way hard for some reason
>The were three of us this morning
>I'm the only one this evening

>>68671695
First song I've heard by him. Probably my favorite.

Well, it's pretty hard to pick out specific parts, but this one always gets the feels going

>If I, if I have been unkind
>I hope that you can just let it go by
>If I, if I have been untrue
>I hope you know it was never to you

>>68671453
my favorite line of his is from one of his poems

>I walk down back alleys
>looking for disgarded foreskins
>to sew them back onto their owners

giving me head on the unmade bed
while the limosines wait in the street

he can be pretty damned blunt and vulgar, but even when he's at his most vulgar it comes off as romantic. Damned lucky man

>>68672592
>You told me again you preferred handsome men
>But for me you would make an exception

Kek every time

I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit.
Then he wrote himself a prescription,
and your name was mentioned in it

>>68671802
This

>>68671453
>The man in me will do nearly any task / And as for compensation, there's little he would ask / Take a woman like you / To get through to the man in me… Full lyrics on Google Play Music

My fave

>>68673358
>Full lyrics on Google Play Music
Thems some damn good pottery