RIP Leonard Cohen

[Feros]

I saw him in concert back in 2008, at the very start of his return to the music scene after a fifteen year break. It was the first concert on what became an incredible world tour and it happened in my home town of Fredericton, NB, Canada.

It was an absolutely amazing performance by one of the greatest songwriters to ever live and one of the most memorable moments of my life.

Good bye, Mr. Cohen. Long may your poetry be spoke and sung.

[jocundthejolly]

Such a great artist. Check out Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows from a couple of years ago, if you haven't seen it.

[Hitdice]

Sad news :(

[Ambrosia Slaad]

Damn this year. :(

[jocundthejolly]

Ambrosia Slaad wrote:

Damn this year. :(

I feel like Faye Dunaway. This is my sister my daughter my sister my daughter.

[Pan]

I was just talking with a bloke in a pub in London about how great Cohen is. Great songwriter and will be missed. :(

[Aberzombie]

He was a pretty cool dude. R.I.P.

[Sissyl]

There is a crack
a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Thank you.

[Sundakan]

I had honestly never heard of the man until earlier this week when somebody played one of his new songs (You Want It Darker?) for me.

The man had an amazing voice, and if the rest of his songs hold up to that quality an amazing songwriter. Wish I'd known of him sooner.

[Hitdice]

His life wasn't wasted, the music's still there. :)

[thejeff]

If it be your will
If there is a choice
Let the rivers fill
Let the hills rejoice
Let your mercy spill
On all these hearts burning in hell
If it be your will
To make us well.

[Feros]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
Everybody knows

[Purple Dragon Knight]

Hallelujah - used to express praise, joy, or thanks especially to God

Thank you, Mr. Cohen, for a beautiful life, and the betterment of ours.

May your soul soar into the infinite layers of the multiverse empowered by your mythical music.

God bless you!

[thejeff]

Just to add here from an atheist's point of view, some of Leonard Cohen's songs were among the few things that almost made me wish I could be religious. A rare ability to let me glimpse a very different viewpoint.

And even though it all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah