Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
Leonard Cohen
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
Leonard Cohen
May 21, 2008 at 1:53 pm
I’m not sure I understand the last clause. Apart for that, this could be liturgy.
Unrelated: I’m amazed at his voice on songs like “So Long, Marianne,” as I’ve come to know him backwards.
May 21, 2008 at 2:07 pm
It’s from Book of Mercy (my favourite book), which definitely has a ‘liturgical’ feel.
Then you’ll have heard this, also from the first album (watch what happens at the end): http://youtube.com/watch?v=RLq7Aqd_H7g
May 23, 2008 at 3:20 pm
how is “Beautiful Losers”? have you read that one?
May 23, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Yes, it’s a crazy, obscene, pop-art novel with some lovely passages here and there, like this one: http://notesfromaroom.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/magic-is-afoot