R.I.P. Leonard Cohen

[moonpie23]

man, 2016 can't get out the door fast enough for me....

this year just sucked....

[OldPhiKap]

Long career, long life, a sometimes tortured man.

One of my favorites, Everybody Knows:

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

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah, give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah, when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

[JasonEvans]

One cannot separate the man from his most famous work. As this wonderful Wash Post article says, Hallelujah is pop music's "most sacred text."

Leonard version is amazing and so many people have covered it. A friend sent me this version. Wow...



--Jason "RIP, Leonard" Evans

[OldPhiKap]

The Duhks cover of Everybody Knows:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxHJL9e9l6A

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

2016 has stolen two of my all-time favorites from me in Bowie and Cohen. Extremely sad, even knowing he was old and in poor health.

Take a moment today and just listen for a bit...

[freshmanjs]

One cannot separate the man from his most famous work. As this wonderful Wash Post article says, Hallelujah is pop music's "most sacred text."

Leonard version is amazing and so many people have covered it. A friend sent me this version. Wow...


--Jason "RIP, Leonard" Evans

...and so many misunderstand the song, failing to realize it is so much about sex. It always strikes me as so odd when it's played or sung at solemn events.

There was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do ya?
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

[moonpie23]

One cannot separate the man from his most famous work. As this wonderful Wash Post article says, Hallelujah is pop music's "most sacred text."

Leonard version is amazing and so many people have covered it. A friend sent me this version. Wow...



--Jason "RIP, Leonard" Evans

one of the all-time best movie placements in one of the all-time best movies...

[jimsumner]

2016 has stolen two of my all-time favorites from me in Bowie and Cohen. Extremely sad, even knowing he was old and in poor health.

And both released new studio recordings only weeks before their passing.

Hard to believe.

[JasonEvans]

one of the all-time best movie placements in one of the all-time best movies...

Watchmen?

[moonpie23]

Watchmen?

negative....you know....Shrek...