korean release album cover
One of my favorite songs. This whole record is the best. it was produced by Phil Spector, who barred Cohen from the studio after vocals were put down so he could finish and mix it himself. Rolling Stone called the record "Leonard Cohen's doo-wop nightmare".
Incredible lyrics:
"I'll never see a face like yours in years of men to come
I'll never see such arms again in wrestling or in love."
She beckoned to the sentry of his high religious mood
She said, "I'll make a place between my legs,
I'll show you solitude." (seducing a priest)
She moved her body hard against a sharpened metal spoon
She stopped the bloody rituals of passage to the moon.
She took his tavern parliament, his cap, his cocky dance,
She mocked his female fashions and his working-class moustache.
So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.
shorter karaoke version... which is still over 7 minutes long :)
and the original
I realize this post is laid out pretty much exactly the same as my last one. i recorded another cover and used it to make a karaoke track... something original coming soon? maybe.. hope so
