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Thank you for posting this. Leonard Cohen truly is a genius, and even, dare I say, a prophet. The last verse of this song has to be one of the coldest, saddest, and harshest pieces of song ever written:

I don’t mean to suggest
That I loved you the best.
I can’t keep track of each fallen robin.
But I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel.
That’s all, I don’t think of you that often.

Russian Jewry have produced so many poetic lyricists and they often stopped at the Chelsea Hotel. a place that encompasses so much of that history and culture unique to NYC

@SithianHawk
You spoke my mind

Another Cohen song that sums up something that happened to me. Even though its about Janis Joplin I still think anyone who lost someone they loved but didnt love them back can relate to this. Thats the beauty of Leonard. His songs are stories where anyone can find something, a line, a character, an event, and feel like someone understands them.

I wanna be there

“You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.”
I just love this line.

chelsea hotel ,… lot of famos people stayed there, somes for months.
He wrote the song and yes also Janis sung it

best song ever written about getting a blowjob off janice joplin

not confused….just bewildered:-)

loving janis.

such a hard hitting lyric…
that would make anybody sad.

yep.
are you confused?
its a fairly simple sentence

giving me head on an unmade bed?

…We are ugly but we have the music!!!!..poet.

everybody knows

My all-time favourite song by Leonard is Stories of the Street. Check it out, folks!

Of his early work I would recomment:

The Master song
Stories of the street,
The story of Isaac
Sisters of mercy
The Stranger song
Teachers

And the whole album of New Skin for the old Ceremony; especially
Why don’t you try,
I tried to leave you,
and Field commander Cohen

Great song for Janis Joplin

This was written for and about Janis Joplin…they were lovers

This song was written for and about Janis Joplin…they were lovers.

i remember you well at the chelsea hotel. but that’s all, i don’t even think of you that often.

Anthony and the Johnson’s do a beautiful version of If it be your will

tower of song, chelsea hotel, I’m your man

Glad to hear that El Cohen is fit and well again