Leonard Cohen - Democracy

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @hilkelieberth8620
    @hilkelieberth8620 9 месяцев назад +99

    We urgently need this song everey hour in every radiostation all over the World !!!

    • @Rhiannon011
      @Rhiannon011 9 месяцев назад +6

      Yes I agree..👍👍

    • @OGFrylock
      @OGFrylock 9 месяцев назад +3

      😂😂😂

    • @kmcq692
      @kmcq692 8 месяцев назад +4

      And local chapters of A Conspiracy of Beards.
      It’s a prayer. It’s liturgy.

    • @Iris-qd9cs
      @Iris-qd9cs 8 месяцев назад +3

      Coudn't agree more. Germany

    • @majensen2007
      @majensen2007 Месяц назад

      @@kmcq692

  • @RaoulDukeSr
    @RaoulDukeSr Год назад +31

    One of Canada's most exemplary patriarchs.....of which there are so very many !
    🌲🍁🍁💞🔮💞🍁🍁🌲

  • @suemoses9330
    @suemoses9330 Месяц назад +29

    This needs to be played non stop in America everywhere today. Such a wonderful song.

    • @01thme
      @01thme Месяц назад +2

      amen. praying for our heart to open in a fundamental way. tipping point. praying for democracy.

    • @JousifVocelovej
      @JousifVocelovej Месяц назад +1

      Today? ...All those years since establishing the Country.

  • @DougWeiss-c1p
    @DougWeiss-c1p 10 месяцев назад +33

    He may have been an alien from another galaxy. Lol! He had insights that no human has matched. He is so needed today, and So missed.

  • @lindasmithdominguez9401
    @lindasmithdominguez9401 2 месяца назад +19

    If just for once, at this very critical time, the masses listened to the very wise.

  • @PieterJansevanRensburg-s5s
    @PieterJansevanRensburg-s5s Год назад +23

    The way he used words to paint a picture is absolutely mind boggling

  • @LlewellynKriel
    @LlewellynKriel Год назад +50

    On the seventh day God rested. And, relaxed, content and in a creative mood, He made Leonard Cohen. And He said; "There! That's it. Nice!" and smiled.

  • @archiecharny
    @archiecharny 2 года назад +104

    So appropriate to hear again at this moment in our history. ! Both a poet and a prophet. --forever remembered!

    • @jazura2
      @jazura2 Год назад +7

      I think it is more poignant now

    • @archiecharny
      @archiecharny Год назад +4

      @@jazura2 Yes; I wanted to remind others of his lesson to us. He had so many wise thoughts.

    • @ana-mariaoncescu5151
      @ana-mariaoncescu5151 Год назад

      Indeed!!❤

    • @agolzad
      @agolzad Год назад +2

      A true Canadian R.I.P Leonard ❤️

    • @marsneedstowels
      @marsneedstowels Год назад

      Americans and Canadians, vote!

  • @danutekudaba9714
    @danutekudaba9714 8 лет назад +428

    Dylan got the Nobel prize. Leonard deserved it also.

    • @sonicfoxxmusic4281
      @sonicfoxxmusic4281 8 лет назад +19

      Leonard Cohen didn't need awards or prizes...but Canada sure took hold of one when Leonard's old man stepped onto Canadian soil!!

    • @minguyen-rl7sn
      @minguyen-rl7sn 8 лет назад +16

      Leonard couldn't possibly care less about the Nobel anything prize.

    • @1967870
      @1967870 8 лет назад +9

      leo better

    • @anawieder5003
      @anawieder5003 6 лет назад +18

      You're so right, Cohen definitely deserves it more

    • @HenrikRClausen
      @HenrikRClausen 5 лет назад +9

      Cohen deserved it, just as Tolkien did. The Nobel Committee works in Mysterious Ways (H/T U2 :))

  • @johnk4437
    @johnk4437 4 года назад +88

    In 1980 I had the pleasure of meeting Leonard Cohen back stage at a Bread And Rose Festival, a fund raiser Mimi Farina organized to fund her pet project, bringing music behind the walls of US penitentiaries. I was 23 years old an aspiring sound and lighting engineer at that time. Leonard was bored and hanging back talking with no one..despite all the stars present... Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Taj Mahal, Robin Williams, among many many others. The event was held at the Greek Theater Berkeley CA. I found him standing there smoking, wearing a very very wrinkled dark grey silk suit just pulled from his travel case, his face severe amid gnarly 5 o'clock shadow and his dark hair long and slicked back.. a scene I shall never forget. Sharing a few words, we soon parted, and all I have now are those memories, of him, that day, and my now long gone youth. Wow !

    • @MSYNGWIE12
      @MSYNGWIE12 7 месяцев назад +3

      As a woman and one of his most devoted fans, sigh I ENVY you! Did he seem depressed or just bored and a bit shy?

    • @georgefordham417
      @georgefordham417 7 месяцев назад +1

      Good 😂story🎉

    • @suzannehansen7519
      @suzannehansen7519 Месяц назад +2

      Thank you for sharing that memory of Leonard. A very unique individual for sure, thinking ahead of his time.
      He left behind some beautiful songs.

    • @leeproulx7412
      @leeproulx7412 Месяц назад +1

      What a great story. Greatness is never decked out in gold and jewels but in wrinkled tired fabric that’s seen better days, as my late father used to say. How amazing to have met such an icon of our time.

  • @James-bd3ei
    @James-bd3ei Год назад +12

    I first heard Cohen when I was 18.... Of course I was to young, to strong and to wise to understand any of his words. Now 62. I realize my life could have been less complicated had I been more patient at age 18 . Some lessons only come with age, that being said. Leonard told me so.

  • @signed_Bewildered
    @signed_Bewildered 9 месяцев назад +15

    Just awesome ! Thank you Leonard... please RIP

  • @AFord1981
    @AFord1981 5 лет назад +200

    "I'm stubborn as those garbage bags/That time cannot decay/I'm junk but I'm still holding up/This little wild bouquet". Absolute genius.

  • @JaniceWilson-sn8to
    @JaniceWilson-sn8to 2 месяца назад +19

    It appears that Leonard knew plenty! Yes, it is a warning! Such a cross to bear when one knows this much. One just has to write about it to keep ones sanity. Leonard, you are missed.

  • @wrigleyman100
    @wrigleyman100 8 лет назад +348

    My wife and I saw you perform this at the outdoor Paolo Soleri Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 9, 1993. You added several more verses not in the standard version - one about slave ships sailing into Charleston Bay. The evening was wonderful, Perla and Julie angelic, and it was, oh, so perfect - one of the best evenings of my life. Now the Paolo Soleri is gone, my wife is gone and you are gone and I am old and feeling that I've seen maybe all there is to see. Except that I don't expect to see democracy coming here to "the cradle of the best and the worst" any time soon. Thank you, Leonard, and R.I.P.

    • @marisolaliaga
      @marisolaliaga 8 лет назад +20

      But you still hav the songs

    • @wrigleyman100
      @wrigleyman100 8 лет назад +20

      John Lower - I'm aware of Mr. Newman's "Sail Away", and if one is going by publishing dates, then Sail Away predates Democracy, and Leonard was certainly a humble, self-effacing guy, ready and willing to pay homage to other song-crafters. Leonard often turned over lyrics in his head for decades before getting a song the way he wanted it. I am told he wrote more than sixty verses for "Democracy" before finalizing its form.

    • @AwesomeAlexAdam
      @AwesomeAlexAdam 8 лет назад +10

      Democracy came to the US Tuesday Nov 8 2016

    • @andrzejjakubowicz3577
      @andrzejjakubowicz3577 8 лет назад +9

      There's a dude who decided some 10 years ago that Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe" was an antiwar song and he posts that idea wherever somebody mentions the song. I'm bringing this up because (a) I don't post my little ideas all over the place, and (b) because for a time, now and then when I'd think about Cohen's "Democracy," I'd think of Cohen as one more of those spiritual folks who, I feel, probably shouldn't talk about politics. In hindsight, the idea that Clinton's presidency was going to bring democracy to the USA seems just unspeakably childish. Cohen wasn't that naive, though. All the US bleeding hearts were cheering when the Berlin Wall fell. Now we know East Germany wasn't being liberated - it was being colonized. And it seems Cohen saw that coming. In one of the interviews here he talks about that - about, as he put it, the "excrement hitting the ventilator" for those people. I know his métier was music and poetry, not political science. But I'm relieved to know that somebody who was so heavily influenced by Lorca (and we know how Lorca died) wasn't some bright-eyed idealistic moron, that he actually *knew, that he was actually *wise. Rabbis and other spiritual sages, and even poets, should not be in some la-la land. And if they are, that's where they should stay. For all his brilliance, I feel Dylan, with his end-times vision of the world, should probably be quiet about anything other than that vision - or just write and sing *songs, which, after all, is what he insists he does and is.

    • @ficheye00
      @ficheye00 8 лет назад +17

      AwesomeAlex - You might want to look at the definition. It doesn't mean 'Make people suffer and do what I want them to do because I'm an imbecile'.

  • @googleuser2874
    @googleuser2874 7 лет назад +51

    Leonard Cohen heals people's souls.

  • @rosieeilon1882
    @rosieeilon1882 4 месяца назад +9

    Every song another pearl of wisdom 💕
    Miss your wisdom 😔

  • @beeko5641
    @beeko5641 2 года назад +12

    Had the honour of meeting the man way back in '93 in Vancouver.I gave him my demo tape and he wished me well and I felt blessed.

  • @pamelajungbeck2715
    @pamelajungbeck2715 7 лет назад +35

    I have a special place in my soul for Leonard Cohen's poetry and songs.

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Год назад

      Awww 🥰 that’s so sweet of you🥰 he brings it he sweetest melody to my soul🦋🤗💕

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Год назад

      Is this your favorite song?

    • @Redeyedvideo
      @Redeyedvideo 5 месяцев назад

      Leonard Cohen's poetry and songs are my soul.

  • @joebanish7517
    @joebanish7517 4 года назад +22

    Being from Michigan, the line “The Brave, the Bold, the Battered Heart of Chevrolet” really rings true.

  • @abbottsystems
    @abbottsystems 9 лет назад +56

    I've been listening to Cohen since the early 70's. He's a genius. One of a kind.

  • @Avatrac
    @Avatrac 8 лет назад +181

    Everything Leonard Cohen does connects and sends chills down my spine. He's my drug of choice.

    • @elyssialinkwade7161
      @elyssialinkwade7161 2 года назад +5

      That is such a beautiful thing to say and I can totally relate, his stuff is the realest ever, you're so correct.

    • @patagualianmostly7437
      @patagualianmostly7437 Год назад +2

      @@elyssialinkwade7161 Mine too... what a wordsmith... the guy was simply the best.
      He can bring me to tears...then lift me to euphoria.... across all his albums.
      The man has NO equal...... past or present. ..... (Those that disagree are simply in denial for some reason or other....?)
      He is... and was, simply, unique....
      A Shakespeare of our time. Maybe.
      We were so fortunate to experience his life.

    • @ana-mariaoncescu5151
      @ana-mariaoncescu5151 Год назад +1

      I agree!!!❤

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    • @melaniezinderenhrertrdrrr
      @melaniezinderenhrertrdrrr 11 месяцев назад

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  • @DeborahLArmstrong
    @DeborahLArmstrong 8 лет назад +49

    RIP Leonard Cohen. Thank you for your wisdom and insight. You will be missed.

  • @simonrodehn8678
    @simonrodehn8678 6 лет назад +37

    Didn't listen to Leonard enough. Fortunately I can continue to. Thank You Leonard for your wonderful poetry.

  • @janesmith-eivemark1191
    @janesmith-eivemark1191 7 месяцев назад +4

    I listened to this song when it was new - that was 30, approximately, years ago! It means more now than it did then. What a poet/philosopher! Thank you Leonard and all who bring this music to us!

  • @chrisinuae1
    @chrisinuae1 8 лет назад +145

    Rip to one of the most profound,charismatic singer songwriters ever! Thank you Mr Cohen for sharing your beautiful gifts with us all.

    • @Berckert
      @Berckert 5 лет назад +1

      yes

    • @alexrozenbom3430
      @alexrozenbom3430 Год назад +1

      I only recently started listening to him. I am glad I found hom
      his lyrics make me think and reflect. Bob Dylan too, just different.

  • @Nunavuter1
    @Nunavuter1 8 лет назад +57

    Leonard is outside time itself. You just have to wait, and what he writes will become important again.

    • @TheRealBarbDwyer
      @TheRealBarbDwyer 8 лет назад +10

      It's hard to wait on a world to catch up.

    • @Nunavuter1
      @Nunavuter1 8 лет назад +8

      Leonard spins a chain in a circle at the start of the video. In olden times, this was something a midwife would do to determine the sex of an unborn child. The child he awaits is unknown.
      (He's just the sort of guy to put this imagery in his videos.)

    • @edmey
      @edmey Год назад +1

      @@Nunavuter1 Thank you for your posts. You're right. Cohen's message/voise is really timeless.

  • @9UaYXxB
    @9UaYXxB 8 лет назад +83

    Rest in peace to this man who, in his way, was as fine a communicator of this life's impacts on the human heart, the human soul, as any.

  • @Lordship24
    @Lordship24 13 лет назад +17

    I am Canadian, I will never Forget Our Friends to the South.
    May God Bless and Protect the United States of America.

  • @nickcipp7374
    @nickcipp7374 8 лет назад +84

    How appropriate for now....& ever...Lou Reed was so right...."We're so lucky to be alive at the same time Leonard Cohen is," Lou Reed said while inducting the Canadian into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. RIP Leo

  • @sharonbrooks1794
    @sharonbrooks1794 11 месяцев назад +8

    Totally agree...Dylan is a poet of the mind....Leonard is a poet of the Heart....I LOVE them both...my Darling Jewish Poets....xoxo

  • @FIFENDRUM
    @FIFENDRUM 8 лет назад +40

    so appropriate on this sad day ,this man has led me through many dark days .his music and poetry will remain timeless..R.i.P.

  • @teddytayl
    @teddytayl 8 лет назад +8

    A poet for this generation, for every generation. Gone from us now, but never forgotten. Incredible.

  • @ZuliaBecker
    @ZuliaBecker 7 лет назад +14

    Missing Leonard Cohen! Let's keep playing, singing and dancing with him!

  • @TKCTSTN
    @TKCTSTN 26 дней назад +3

    He was openly critical of the Felon in Chief during the 2016 campaign. He died just a few days after the election. I played this song over & over for several days.

  • @jackielocklear320
    @jackielocklear320 2 года назад +43

    Absolutely can't stop listening. A musical genius! His music lives on forever

    • @drcringe7873
      @drcringe7873 Год назад

      Fascinating that we get to see a Jew like Leonard Cohen embracing the role of a Jewish supremacist super-villain who hints in all his songs that he despises non-Jews and wishes to enslave and exterminate them, but puts it just subtly in all his songs and so he has a large following of non-Jewish fans who don't get this, but pay and praise his songs.
      Isn't that Jewish magic if anything?

  • @fernandoperezbarreto7699
    @fernandoperezbarreto7699 9 лет назад +31

    This is truly one of the great works of art of all time

  • @pascal796
    @pascal796 8 лет назад +41

    Sail on, sail on for eternity... You deserved the Nobel prize for literature.

  • @trueroscoe
    @trueroscoe 10 месяцев назад +7

    Thank you, Leonard.

  • @Romulonarducci1
    @Romulonarducci1 8 лет назад +8

    I'll ever love the poet, the singer, the writer, the complete artist called Leonar Cohen. R.I.P. Master!

  • @NateHaselton
    @NateHaselton 8 лет назад +311

    Make no mistake about it; Leonard Cohen's death has coincided with a time the world needs to listen to his music the most. RIP Mr. Cohen. Thank you for your works.

    • @sonicfoxxmusic4281
      @sonicfoxxmusic4281 8 лет назад +4

      You may just appreciate this little beauty Nate...it's mellow...enjoy.
      BREATHE by JASMINE LAMPORT.

    • @TheMrExemplar
      @TheMrExemplar 7 лет назад

      nobody needs to listen to music

    • @moondancer3157
      @moondancer3157 6 лет назад +6

      HitProof I do. Can't live without it.

    • @janetcoffin8070
      @janetcoffin8070 5 лет назад +3

      What a sad life, that doesn’t need music.

    • @mygoddess1
      @mygoddess1 4 года назад +1

      @@janetcoffin8070 How true Janet :) Wicked sad! I breath music ;)

  • @1996gagamay
    @1996gagamay 8 лет назад +187

    He's the most heart opening artist I've ever heard, besides being a GENIUS.

    • @Berckert
      @Berckert 5 лет назад +2

      yes

    • @mygoddess1
      @mygoddess1 4 года назад +2

      Yes! 4 sure Sheila :) We sure could use his wisdom now.......

    • @stevesullivan8705
      @stevesullivan8705 4 года назад +3

      @@mygoddess1 Thanks Donna! Know the song, hadn't seen the video. Big Leonard fan. After God made Leonard Cohen She might as well have retired.

    • @tarawillis3995
      @tarawillis3995 4 года назад +2

      well maybe not he's usually not talking about himself or being vulnerable

    • @tokenspirit1548
      @tokenspirit1548 2 года назад +2

      You've got that right! I just listened to this one, as a solo and it's March 25, 2022.....I replaced the words USA with the Ukraine.

  • @SCharlesDennicon
    @SCharlesDennicon 7 лет назад +14

    My god, LC's lyrics... here is truly the equivalent of the classical poets we had until the early 20s.

  • @edkriegepiano
    @edkriegepiano 8 лет назад +85

    his work here is done, but his songs will sail on.

    • @mechelinavt
      @mechelinavt 8 лет назад +9

      edward kriege Good comment Edward Thats the way it is

  • @BarbaraRBell
    @BarbaraRBell 8 лет назад +15

    May your memory be a blessing dear Leonard Cohen . . .

  • @TheShabnama
    @TheShabnama 8 лет назад +12

    I am deeply saddened by this heartbreaking news. RIP Leonard Cohen, You will be in my heart forever...

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Год назад +1

      He still lives in my world🙏❤️ don’t think am letting this one go🦋🤗💕

  • @gulaykaya3352
    @gulaykaya3352 Месяц назад +4

    I love this song. Love ya, Mister Cohen❤😊

  • @danielaschwarz1971
    @danielaschwarz1971 8 лет назад +87

    Another sad day in this year 2016 and Leonard Cohen is a huge loss.RIP with your awesome voice

  • @LoiSPiskorz
    @LoiSPiskorz 4 года назад +14

    Amazing lyrics. Bob and Leonard are great poets and musicians.

  • @lisemoen8866
    @lisemoen8866 6 лет назад +35

    I fell deeply in love with Leonard the very first time I heard his incredible voice. For the first time in my life, I have been faithful and loyal to only one man. All because of his ' gift of a golden voice'. Wait for me, Leonard, I'll be there soon.

  • @yosariant9476
    @yosariant9476 4 года назад +257

    Think I'm going to be listening to this song on repeat all day today.

    • @elizabethcotonieto9224
      @elizabethcotonieto9224 4 года назад +11

      Have you listened it by Lumineers? It’s great!

    • @soph1pink
      @soph1pink 4 года назад +11

      Pretty sure Cohen would have been as relieved as a great many at the moment.

    • @pattyleppert2437
      @pattyleppert2437 4 года назад +10

      @@rmckim what? why should he concede?

    • @pattyleppert2437
      @pattyleppert2437 4 года назад +15

      it should be Drumpf who concedes

    • @soph1pink
      @soph1pink 4 года назад +1

      @@pattyleppert2437 I was wondering about that one as well! 🙂

  • @Habsolutely
    @Habsolutely 4 месяца назад +7

    Dylan strings together random rhymes that sometimes hit home. Cohen’s lyrics are always polished and dripping with meaning

  • @kata.gy55
    @kata.gy55 3 года назад +5

    Ever since I was a child I felt connected to Leonard Cohen's music. He always made me calm. In my early teens I strayed away from him but like a year or two ago I found my way back. My dad was a big fan of him and as of now when I'm turning 18 in a couple months I'm starting to understand his music and I'm becoming a big fan of him. Mr Cohen was there with me ever since I was a baby, on every road trip and every single late night. It's heartbreaking that I never got the chance to meet him. But this is art and this cannot be compared to the trending music nowadays 🖤 Rest in peace Mr. Cohen and thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart

  • @patriciadavidson6765
    @patriciadavidson6765 4 года назад +21

    He had his finger on the American pulse, and on the world and it’s evils. He will never leave is 💚💚

  • @elliegreen4738
    @elliegreen4738 7 лет назад +9

    Most singers have only a few good songs, sometimes only one but with Leonard it's different every single one is outstandingly beautiful with intriguing hidden meaning, fascinating darkness.
    I love his work.

  • @mariaruskova6054
    @mariaruskova6054 8 лет назад +25

    R.I.P. , Leonard Cohen. You will be badly missed.

  • @dullarddom
    @dullarddom 5 лет назад +8

    Listening to this on the eve of what I fear may be the last truly democratic election in my country for a long time. I've always drawn on Leonard Cohen's music to give me hope and courage. I will need that push more than ever tomorrow as I go out from 7am making sure as many people who want to vote actually do so as I possibly can.

  • @uncanonised
    @uncanonised 4 года назад +20

    this song is so important today

  • @PimpleJThomas
    @PimpleJThomas 4 года назад +53

    "This was when the Berlin Wall came down and everyone was saying democracy is coming to the east. And I was like that gloomy fellow who always turns up at a party to ruin the orgy or something. And I said, "I don’t think it’s going to happen that way. I don’t think this is such a good idea. I think a lot of suffering will be the consequence of this wall coming down." But then I asked myself, "Where is democracy really coming?" And it was the U.S.A....So while everyone was rejoicing, I thought it wasn’t going to be like that, euphoric, the honeymoon. So it was these world events that occasioned the song. And also the love of America. Because I think the irony of America is transcendent in the song. It’s not an ironic song. It’s a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country. That this is really where the experiment is unfolding. This is really where the races confront one another, where the classes, where the genders, where even the sexual orientations confront one another. This is the real laboratory of democracy."

    • @supermash1
      @supermash1 3 года назад +3

      Don't tell me - you're American. A bit presumptuous. The races meet in many places outside America. And, as you know, your democracy isn't holding up very well... It's in America where the rich fuck the poor over more than any other "democracy". America is simply organized money now.

    • @PimpleJThomas
      @PimpleJThomas 3 года назад +5

      @@supermash1 Alright, not telling you - I am not American, but European. And that’s LC quote, not mine.

    • @uncleclem7381
      @uncleclem7381 3 года назад +2

      @@PimpleJThomas Ah yes, America. The pinnacle of democracy, where orders are given for Latin American and Asian countries to be bombed and their democratically elected leaders overthrown in favor of fascists.

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 3 года назад +2

      It was just so appropriate The Future was released in 92 his melancholy bleak sound just worked so well with all the depressing grunge music gaining popularity probably why Trent Reznor put him on the NBK soundtrack too. I remember my parents had two volumes of his poetry from years earlier when they had seem him in Toronto I was like 13 getting into writing really dark stuff because it was actually really cool culturally to do that in the 90s.

    • @bsh819
      @bsh819 3 года назад

      ​@@supermash1​ "​The races meet in many places outside America."
      In the same numbers and varieties? Nah, not many places. You're right about the rest of it, but it's a global system of the rich fucking the poor, so what if America's cancer is slightly more advanced than yours, neither are operable.

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 2 года назад +20

    I hadn't heard this Leonard Cohen masterpiece before until I read 'Daring Democracy' and it was referenced. The anti-democratic forces funded by the billionaire class are gaining strength and I fear for our Democracy. If we can't rally a groundswell of opposition against it, it is all over for us. Hearing this song almost brought me to tears. Such a powerful message.

    • @margaretchapman1306
      @margaretchapman1306 Год назад +2

      Many would share your fears .stay aware , stand strong as leonard would have us do
      I love the country but i hate the scene

  • @andyrichardsvideovlogs8835
    @andyrichardsvideovlogs8835 6 лет назад +15

    Cohen at his greatest... RIP Thank you for the pleasure your music has given me since I discovered it in 1971

  • @hansjosephkarner1268
    @hansjosephkarner1268 Месяц назад +2

    I love his slamming sarcasm. That does rock!

  • @Lilithblues
    @Lilithblues 8 лет назад +21

    I love you Leonard!!! You will be in my heart forever..

  • @MadMan731
    @MadMan731 4 года назад +4

    NPR played this one day and upon hearing that voice I knew it was Leonard Cohen. He was one of a kind.

  • @RenatusChristoph
    @RenatusChristoph 8 лет назад +73

    "Democracy is coming to the USA..." Haha, Cohen was always spot on in his sarcasm... And spot on in his diagnose of the States. Democracy isn't really no where there.

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 5 лет назад +3

      He viewed them through a Canadian lense.

    • @angelabroughton5980
      @angelabroughton5980 4 года назад +2

      When it is whispering in your ear, it advances a foot at a time. When you ask "Why?" It makes an advance.
      Every time you recognize a real injustice it takes a giant leap.
      When you get that nagging feeling in your gut it has won.
      He was right. Follow your heart, and vote very carefully. The pen is mightier than the sword.

    • @solangedesantis5515
      @solangedesantis5515 4 года назад +1

      He's not sarcastic.

    • @siwardwoudstra1751
      @siwardwoudstra1751 4 года назад +2

      @@solangedesantis5515 Assuming he wasn't sarcastic makes it even more sarcastic. If it isn't ironic it is even more scornful. The only question is if the grin is outwardly visible or hidden inside; that the grin can only be seen in the soul.

    • @GMC-qo9xi
      @GMC-qo9xi 4 года назад +1

      I think his point is that it doesn’t yet exist in the USA, but it’s coming... after the greed has played out it’s hand and the need (for justice) takes over.... as the walls had already started to crack, and chip, and soon will crumble. Babylon eventually falls, as does the greed she’s drunk off. And at some point shortly after that we will have peace-‘united states’.

  • @CCDservices
    @CCDservices 9 лет назад +26

    Leonard Cohen probably more than anyone before deserve the Noble Price for Peace and people unity!?

    • @robinwilson1433
      @robinwilson1433 5 лет назад

      or even "Nobel"

    • @sayan_tan
      @sayan_tan 4 года назад

      I don't know abour peace. But I'm sure he deserves it in literature.

  • @jbghosthunter
    @jbghosthunter 8 лет назад +11

    RIP sir, thank you for every memory, song and poem. you are missed.

  • @themocaw
    @themocaw 8 лет назад +295

    Only Leonard Cohen had the charisma to sing by basically reciting a poem in a low voice over backing music. I'm gonna miss the guy.

    • @itsthizzbaby
      @itsthizzbaby 6 лет назад +8

      he is talking, not singing - just like all of his 'songs'. still good music, though ;).

    • @Oscar3
      @Oscar3 6 лет назад +11

      Tom Waits and Lou Reed can do it too.

    • @insufficientdata9845
      @insufficientdata9845 6 лет назад +7

      Jim Morrison did it as well.....

    • @Oscar3
      @Oscar3 6 лет назад +7

      @@insufficientdata9845 I agree with you. In terms of artistic tools Morrison was more a musician than a poet. But he was certainly a poet.

    • @patriciofernandez2711
      @patriciofernandez2711 5 лет назад +29

      He is very clearly singing. He's not talking or reciting, there is a very definite pitch and musical quality to what he's doing. Listen to him recite his poems for the difference.

  • @jocelynevoisine8940
    @jocelynevoisine8940 7 лет назад +4

    I hate to admit it, but I am just listening to Leonard Cohen's music for the first time. The man is a GENIUS!

  • @patagualianmostly7437
    @patagualianmostly7437 Год назад +3

    Me too... what a wordsmith... the guy was simply the best.
    He can bring me to tears...then lift me to euphoria.... across all his albums.
    The man has NO equal...... past or present. ..... (Those that disagree are simply in denial for some reason or other....?)
    He is... and was, simply, unique....
    A Shakespeare of our time. Maybe.
    We were so fortunate to experience his life.

  • @cornstorm666
    @cornstorm666 4 года назад +11

    Sorry Leonard,Democracy has left the building...please come back Leonard, we need you more than ever..

  • @Theghostdiaries
    @Theghostdiaries 6 лет назад +11

    His early music is beautiful beyond belief obviously. But his later tunes really get me. I listen to this song, Everybody Knows, The Miracle, and First We Take Manhattan pretty much every day.

    • @wintherr3527
      @wintherr3527 2 года назад +2

      it's basically a flawless repertoire

    • @laripu
      @laripu Год назад +2

      The album "You Want It Darker" is unbelievably good. It came out just before he died.

    • @Theghostdiaries
      @Theghostdiaries 4 месяца назад +1

      @@laripu Yea I love it

  • @omidgh2011
    @omidgh2011 9 лет назад +10

    lol I love the part where he is looking dead straight to the camera and says " it's coming to America first " EPIIIIIIC.

  • @NJRockfan
    @NJRockfan 8 лет назад +19

    His poetry was music,
    His music....poetry
    Thank you for letting him visit this Earth
    "Democracy" & "Hallelujah" came to mind Tuesday night and now I read the news today... oh boy

  • @miriamkramer9006
    @miriamkramer9006 4 года назад +8

    Such an incredible talent. I can't believe that I'm just discovering him. He has such wisdom and foresight. I will continue to listen to this incredible poet.

  • @alleyoop1234
    @alleyoop1234 Месяц назад +3

    SHARE this song far and wide folks!!!

  • @amandaknopp3815
    @amandaknopp3815 8 лет назад +10

    RIP, prescient until the end, you always inspired me

  • @RobertMacleod-h3b
    @RobertMacleod-h3b Год назад +7

    For god sake they need it now here in the uk to

  • @Rozmund
    @Rozmund 5 лет назад +4

    Listing to Cohen never ceases to bring me JOY...are you doing your thing on the other side Leonard...

  • @jeff6413
    @jeff6413 8 лет назад +24

    "It's coming from the feel that it ain't exactly real. Or it's real but it ain't exactly there."
    Erie as hell given what is happening in America and the timing of Leonard Cohen's death. 😟😟😟
    RIP Leonard Cohen

    • @dominicsorbara3287
      @dominicsorbara3287 8 лет назад +2

      the force of nature always steps ahead, sail on.........

    • @GardenHillHighlights
      @GardenHillHighlights 8 лет назад +3

      i am kind of happy Leonard did not know the results of the election

    • @sonicfoxxmusic4281
      @sonicfoxxmusic4281 8 лет назад +5

      Being a visionary, i'm sure he already knew.

  • @BeBopbrook
    @BeBopbrook 7 лет назад +11

    I think Leonard Cohen has been the best songwriter of my generation. No one sings hopefulness and despair and love like can did. I love him. He changed my life several times in a very profound way.

    • @danj312
      @danj312 Год назад

      this dude has Zero talent

  • @silvanagili9641
    @silvanagili9641 5 лет назад +4

    Una canzone stupenda!!!fondamentale per i nostri tempi!!!grazie Leonard!!

  • @trarich7205
    @trarich7205 8 лет назад +54

    I'm sorry this song isn't more important. I play this for practically everyone I know. Apparently everyone I know sucks. This song says it all and has been saying it all for awhile now.

    • @joserocha420
      @joserocha420 4 года назад +3

      Cohen has beeen ignored by pop-high volume discografics america side... the rest of the world find him as an historical, intervention and cutural reference. He was my spiritual father, i mourned him like he was family. Every single time that i listen one of the hundreds/thousands of his musics, i reborn and reinvent myself.

    • @kennewton6626
      @kennewton6626 2 года назад

      Everyone you doesn’t suck; they’re just conditioned by fear

  • @andymassingham
    @andymassingham 8 лет назад +4

    Played it endlessly. The soundtrack of the 90's for me. Has not aged one second.

  • @monaghanmarty
    @monaghanmarty 8 лет назад +9

    Another legend goes and the devils touting tickets for the afterlife this year.. An acquired taste I'm glad to have acquired..
    Rock in peace Mr Cohen

  • @christophermoody50
    @christophermoody50 8 лет назад +2

    Cohen's music is very cathartic. It's almost as if he knew what is needed right in this moment, and did what was needed to remind us. But to pay him the respect he deserves you must pledge that you will use his music not to wallow in self pity, but to help you ready yourself for the coming fight.

  • @mallducklard
    @mallducklard 13 лет назад +3

    I really thought I'd eventually get sick of this Cohen thing. Discovered him about six months ago. I can't get enough of it. There's some magic here I can't define or rationalize.

    • @blueshark3098
      @blueshark3098 Год назад

      Agreed. When I got the 2-disc "Essential Leonard Cohen", I listened to the first disc over and over again for six months, before even moving on to Disc 2, and there were so many more great surprises and songs to come. You're right, there is some mysterious magic there that you connected with.

  • @kirnikoglu
    @kirnikoglu 7 лет назад +183

    It's coming through a hole in the air
    From those nights in Tiananmen Square
    It's coming from the feel
    That this ain't exactly real
    Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there
    From the wars against disorder
    From the sirens night and day
    From the fires of the homeless
    From the ashes of the gay
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    It's coming through a crack in the wall
    On a visionary flood of alcohol
    From the staggering account
    Of the Sermon on the Mount
    Which I don't pretend to understand at all
    It's coming from the silence
    On the dock of the bay,
    From the brave, the bold, the battered
    Heart of Chevrolet
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    It's coming from the sorrow in the street
    The holy places where the races meet
    From the homicidal bitchin'
    That goes down in every kitchen
    To determine who will serve and who will eat
    From the wells of disappointment
    Where the women kneel to pray
    For the grace of God in the desert here
    And the desert far away:
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    Sail on, sail on
    O mighty Ship of State
    To the Shores of Need
    Past the Reefs of Greed
    Through the Squalls of Hate
    Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
    It's coming to America first
    The cradle of the best and of the worst
    It's here they got the range
    And the machinery for change
    And it's here they got the spiritual thirst
    It's here the family's broken
    And it's here the lonely say
    That the heart has got to open
    In a fundamental way
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    It's coming from the women and the men
    O baby, we'll be making love again
    We'll be going down so deep
    The river's going to weep,
    And the mountain's going to shout Amen
    It's coming like the tidal flood
    Beneath the lunar sway
    Imperial, mysterious
    In amorous array
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    Sail on, sail on
    I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
    I love the country but I can't stand the scene
    And I'm neither left or right
    I'm just staying home tonight
    Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
    But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
    That Time cannot decay
    I'm junk but I'm still holding up
    This little wild bouquet
    Democracy is coming to the USA

  • @FirstUsedBooks
    @FirstUsedBooks 8 лет назад +6

    God damn you Leonard, you leave me crying. How could you be so aware?

  • @voxhammer
    @voxhammer 13 лет назад +2

    @longfootbuddy I am so honored that you have chosen me worthy of further explanation of one of your treasures of wisdom, and while it is quite a struggle for me to stretch my mind to accommodate even a modest portion of the brilliance that comes so easily to you, it is surely worth the effort.

  • @vplusah
    @vplusah Год назад +3

    I first learned about this wonderful song almost twenty-five years ago, after reading its last verse as an epigraph in Viktor Pelevin’s dystopia about Russia in the 90s and the role of TV in it.

  • @gryphonshire
    @gryphonshire 8 лет назад +6

    A Poet AND a Prophet, Mr. Cohen's Spirit will live on through his words & music.
    RIP, Leonard. I'll be along soon....

  • @cathymurphy2781
    @cathymurphy2781 4 года назад +5

    Thinking of our Democracy today, Leonard. Hope we keep it.

  • @Mercurius2345
    @Mercurius2345 8 лет назад +60

    Farewell my companion of 50 years, through triumph and disaster;
    "my love goes with you as your love stays with me"
    'Democracy' one of Leonard's more ironic songs - so apposite this week of all week's

  • @awfelia
    @awfelia 8 лет назад +3

    Leonard Cohen..a man of great vision! ☆♡☆

  • @azraooz
    @azraooz 8 лет назад +20

    ADIEU L ARTISTE (Tu laisse beaucoup de choses dans nos coeur )

  • @laurabeverage9396
    @laurabeverage9396 5 лет назад +18

    "Democracy is coming, to the USA!!!!!" This is just what I needed to hear to buoy my spirits today. :-)

    • @catherinetihanyi6351
      @catherinetihanyi6351 5 лет назад +1

      They can only give the Nobel prize to a live author. Leonard Cohen had already passed away when they decided to give it to a song writer.

    • @mrs.hancock4124
      @mrs.hancock4124 2 года назад

      He means communism

    • @wnd3099
      @wnd3099 2 года назад

      @@mrs.hancock4124 who ? Excuse me Mrs ...

    • @whenfatkillsfat803
      @whenfatkillsfat803 2 года назад

      @@mrs.hancock4124 Back to the kitchen, Karen.

  • @andreluiscontri3796
    @andreluiscontri3796 8 лет назад +17

    So long, Leonard! Thanks for everything!

  • @LeonardaPetersen
    @LeonardaPetersen 8 лет назад +3

    The Biggest songwriter R.I.P. Leonarda Cohen. November 2016.

  • @davidalexander5085
    @davidalexander5085 3 года назад +1

    I think I still have my Rhyming Dictionary from the 80s he's holding at 0:10
    I'll put it to use again when I find it.