Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Official Audio)

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  • Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Official Audio)
    Listen on Spotify: smarturl.it/lc_spotify
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    Official Website: www.leonardcohen.com
    Lyrics:
    It's four in the morning, the end of December
    I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
    New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
    There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening
    I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
    You're living for nothing now. I hope you're keeping some kind of record
    Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
    She said that you gave it to her
    That night that you planned to go clear
    Did you ever go clear?
    Oh, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
    Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
    You'd been to the station to meet every train
    But then you came home without Lili Marlene
    And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
    And when she came back she was nobody's wife
    I see you there with the rose in your teeth
    One more thin gypsy thief
    Well I see Jane's awake
    She sends her regard
    And what can I tell you my brother, my killer?
    What can I possibly say?
    I guess that I miss you. I guess I forgive you
    I'm glad you stood in my way
    If you ever come by here
    For Jane or for me
    Well, your enemy is sleeping
    And his woman is free
    Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes
    I thought it was there for good so I never tried
    And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
    She said that you gave it to her
    That night that you planned to go clear
    Sincerely, L. Cohen
    #LeonardCohen #FamousBlueRaincoat
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  • @timothygrayson
    @timothygrayson 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    A touching song. Full of emotion and good taste. Leonard's triumph.

  • @laura3003
    @laura3003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    that female voice in the background singing "da da" is the icing of the cake in this song.

    • @robertocarloshess
      @robertocarloshess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Especially at 3:30 when two women sing „da da“ in harmony.

    • @TheAvivakta
      @TheAvivakta 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You sure right about that. Wish i could see him but too late for that.

    • @jodicummings380
      @jodicummings380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It's the web sisters

    • @rolphy4338
      @rolphy4338 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Certainly is Laura, sets the mood x

    • @S.J.L
      @S.J.L 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Female backing vocals really make many songs. Many of Cohen's, good call. It's the interplay between the two that makes great music, either sonically or by inspiration.

  • @RClock-bb7gi
    @RClock-bb7gi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    My son doesn't get Leonards' music yet, but I will leave this comment for him to find after I'm gone. This song meant so much to me. Hopefully youtube survives. I love you. Keep searching. Carpe diem.

    • @butimar68
      @butimar68 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's one great message to leave. Much love to you both.

    • @fatihrime
      @fatihrime หลายเดือนก่อน

      🫡

    • @MrSilvertree2737
      @MrSilvertree2737 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🫡

  • @petedossett6301
    @petedossett6301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +792

    The greatest Leonard song of them all... if only for the lines: "Thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes / I thought it was there for good so I never tried."

    • @DarkSide_Vinyl
      @DarkSide_Vinyl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      This was the very line that got me too! Amazing talent.

    • @waldemarsadecki5278
      @waldemarsadecki5278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      yes im agree

    • @annechatoka3902
      @annechatoka3902 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Have always loved Leonard Cohen. What a voice. To write poetry is one thing and then to put it to music so hauntingly beautiful. Besides embracing your soul and moving your awareness, Leonard Cohen, you did a fantastic job. A Thousand Kisses Deep and so many deep moving awesome songs and lyrics. Anne🙏🌵🎵🎧

    • @gillesmassonaud7903
      @gillesmassonaud7903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Can you guys wonder how lucky you are able to understand those lyrics. And how frustrating it is to miss it with Cohen, Dylan and few others

    • @janetparran2535
      @janetparran2535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Agree. I think these are the greatest lines of any song I've ever heard

  • @johnbennettusa123
    @johnbennettusa123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2993

    It really is 4 in the morning and I cannot sleep .... I am 70 now .... I was 18 when I found Leonard Cohen's music .... Saw him "live" approx 6 times, including a 3 day hippie festival in the middle of nowhere in the South of France .... he turned up on a white horse and sang a lot in French .... he has meant so much to me all of my life, and I feel the need to tell somebody!
    PS a year later .... Thank you to everyone who, over the last year, and to my amazement, gave me 1800 likes and lots of comments about Leonard Cohen and what he means to me ..... We HAVE something that non-Cohen lovers have no clue about! .... One or 2 of you asked to know more about me .... As you asked, all I can say is "Like a bird on a wire .... I have tried in my own way to be free" ....
    Aged 26 I spent a year under Bhagwan in India and ironically I discovered just after that Jesus is "truly the Son of God", and whatever beliefs you may have, HE is still the "Gateway to heaven" and "Lord of heaven and earth" .... He "laid aside His majesty, and humbled Himself and became a man", and lived and died FOR US ...

    • @vallarishandilya3297
      @vallarishandilya3297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      wow:)

    • @cuddlygoblin
      @cuddlygoblin 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      I discovered this song when I was 19. I am 34 now. It's an incredible song! Thanks for sharing, I hear you. I kept dreaming I could go to a concert when he was with us but can barely go out because of mental health problems.

    • @bonganichavalala3261
      @bonganichavalala3261 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Tell me more

    • @sisuboy
      @sisuboy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      I'm 71 and I discovered him in 1969 somehow. I really don't remember, but his depression spoke to me. Just love the man and will hope to honor his memory until I join him in death.

    • @miguelfajardo7913
      @miguelfajardo7913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😮

  • @cillianlyndon2192
    @cillianlyndon2192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1020

    Hi. I’m writing this with tears in my eyes. I’m 14 and just learned that my dad passed from a heart attack today. this was his favourite song right now and he loved sitting in my kitchen and playing it on the speakers. this song will always be a huge part of my life from this day on.
    Edit: It’s been a year now and I want to thank all of you who have left kind words on this comment.
    “All things grow with time, except grief”
    This past year has gone by in the blink of an eye while also simultaneously feeling like the longest year of my life. Life without my dad is different. There’s a hole that can not and will not be filled but that’s not a bad thing. That hole serves as a reminder of the great man that was my dad. People say that time heals, but I disagree. I think that time lets you accept what has happened but the scar remains. This song now serves as a beautiful trip down memory lane in place of a painful ballad of mourning. For anyone reading this who has recently lost someone they love dearly, weep as much as you need. Every tear is a drop of love with nowhere else to go. Try your best to carry on but make sure to take days off to relax and be alone if you need to. Again, thank you for the messages and lots of love to you all.

    • @ginaprespare1316
      @ginaprespare1316 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Cillian, so very sorry you lost your Dad. I hope this song keeps you connected to him.

    • @sylviagrantins
      @sylviagrantins 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      OMG, what a terrible shock. I'm so sorry, play this song often. My Dad passed almost three years ago. His favourite music helps keep him close to me.

    • @colin6372
      @colin6372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@gard7662 I was also 6 when my father died,, I am 63 now; you are right "The hole he left in your world will never be filled, but it will get easier to bear" (perhaps more manageable certainly). But lets not pretend that all will be made better in some future time; that's a beautiful fantasy but it's not the reality.

    • @colin6372
      @colin6372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@gard7662 I am not sure why you say I am "prick". No one is doing that (not at all clear what 'that' is?).

    • @paulr7028
      @paulr7028 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too. God bless

  • @stevepayne5965
    @stevepayne5965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1694

    A man whose voice sounded like tears.

    • @MrAdriancooke
      @MrAdriancooke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Or like silent raindrops on a window at nightfall

    • @marita7424
      @marita7424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      and is as deep as his soul

    • @fredthomas4342
      @fredthomas4342 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Steve..

    • @garysmart8158
      @garysmart8158 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well said

    • @fatal6849
      @fatal6849 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A man...

  • @joshbrooks796
    @joshbrooks796 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    And what can I tell you my brother? My killer? What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way.
    Such a powerful line

  • @61807605
    @61807605 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Leonard Cohen's music & poetry is present in my life since more than 50 years and it will go on until I follow him to the place where he is now.

  • @FearPlayBoyz
    @FearPlayBoyz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    "Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
    I thought it was there for good so I never tried." I tell you. It takes guts to write and sing this. Cohen is art.

    • @spiritofthewinds9089
      @spiritofthewinds9089 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So true.

    • @RS-rz9xj
      @RS-rz9xj 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My husband said appreciatively that every female graduate student wanted to sleep with Leonard Cohen 🤗

  • @yuchenwu470
    @yuchenwu470 4 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    l am a chinese.My English is not good.but when l heard this sing my heart get peace

    • @sroycze9284
      @sroycze9284 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      my friend ;cohen is far greater than the barriers of language and culture.....i hope you stay safe in the middle of the corona Crisis

    • @albedoxy
      @albedoxy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@filippo-m-7824 Sorry

    • @cboothe62
      @cboothe62 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love that this brings one peace

    • @GhostyGhost7007
      @GhostyGhost7007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      This is honestly a really beautiful comment. Music is the language of the soul, it transcends the language barrier. Safe travels, brother.

    • @yuchenwu470
      @yuchenwu470 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@GhostyGhost7007 l love this song and l also want to persue my favorite.He is a romantic poet and wonderful prior

  • @varun6120
    @varun6120 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thank you Connor Roy for introducing me, an Indian, to Leonard Cohen.

  • @castalla999
    @castalla999 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1070

    I saw Leonard sing this in 85 at a beautiful concert. My love had tears glistening in her eyes. I looked at her and she saw the tears in my own eyes. It was a moment that transcended time in my life, as if we understood shared emotions from our past. Thank you Leonard Cohen for this and many great memories of song

  • @daveysaturn7232
    @daveysaturn7232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +361

    I'm here today at the end of December. I had my intimate encounters, but solitude is something that overrides my desire to keep company.

    • @lauratanase4724
      @lauratanase4724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Totally agree

    • @nicholassgouros8612
      @nicholassgouros8612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@lauratanase4724 Sounds like a love connection.

    • @Stranger_In_The_Alps
      @Stranger_In_The_Alps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also known as “money over bitches”
      MG.TOW is the way.

    • @tom-ht3ju
      @tom-ht3ju 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Nah. Humans are an extremely social species. We need people around us, and long for love and acceptance. You may need to surround yourself with better people, to gain empathy and understanding. Life become much easier if we share our burdens with others. Good luck, friend.

    • @OpePlumbing
      @OpePlumbing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Your a Capricorn?

  • @hendrikdebruin4012
    @hendrikdebruin4012 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What is devastating in life is when you finally realize you are the guy with the blue raincoat. May the Lord forgive me.

  • @MrCrapman10
    @MrCrapman10 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Probably my favorite Leonard Cohen song, makes me almost cry every time I hear it. So powerful, I'm 50 now & only came across his music in 2017. I liked how his voice changed over the years. I never heard a song he sang I didn't enjoy. RIP LC, you brought lots of love to this old world.

  • @shayantheunworthy3390
    @shayantheunworthy3390 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Here in Iran, It's literally "four in the morning, the end of December". A year contains 525,959 and 4/15 minutes and Mr Cohen made this specific minute super special (at least for me).
    R.I.P❤️

    • @ivristern2601
      @ivristern2601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @Shayan The unworthy - peace and love from Israel to Iran with Leonard Cohen poetry.

    • @osmq4287
      @osmq4287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ivristern2601 you just made me smile.. Thank you so much..

    • @slybuster
      @slybuster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you rub one out to his voice or something? Used the same Kleen-x to dry your tears after...made it special?

    • @saraivatoledo1842
      @saraivatoledo1842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@slybuster How being a knob will benefit anybody/anything ?

    • @slybuster
      @slybuster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@saraivatoledo1842 Crass humor is the antidote to literary pretensions.

  • @teresecondon-yost4241
    @teresecondon-yost4241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I first saw him in 1973. It was just him in white singing. I had already been swept away by Suzanne and Sisters of Mercy. My boyfriend said I was elevating. I especially like his last one. We grew old together

  • @forthrightgambitia1032
    @forthrightgambitia1032 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rain on me amphibrachic melancholy, fill my veins.

  • @pangur780
    @pangur780 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Heard this in my bedroom as a 16 yr old and figured out what proper song writing was. 32 years later and it still evokes deserts, train stations, complex relationships and bedrooms. A masterpiece.

  • @Linkinbird617
    @Linkinbird617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Those backing vocals always break my fucking heart.

  • @johngault6218
    @johngault6218 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    There is no lasting happiness in life, only a mirage on the horizon. Leonard knew that.

  • @ahmetserdarkanburoglu2782
    @ahmetserdarkanburoglu2782 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    nothing is like loving and hating someone at the same time.

  • @lostinmusic5431
    @lostinmusic5431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The Master of Melancholia.

    • @awikio
      @awikio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes!! You described his music just right. Nobody beats Cohen. So beautiful and so sad. And it wasn’t just an act either, just look at the few interviews with him. There’s always something sad within him, something “pushing” him down.

  • @anuranbhattacharya9938
    @anuranbhattacharya9938 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Your enemy is sleeping and your woman is free..... Sends chills to the heart

  • @sophiaharvey7890
    @sophiaharvey7890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Impossible not to cry. One of the best songs ever written.

  • @12345lans
    @12345lans ปีที่แล้ว +31

    “ She sends her regard”
    This line, and the guitar that follows is gut wrenching.

  • @daniellewis409
    @daniellewis409 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It takes the insanity of love to truly know that someone is better off without you.

  • @kendalldelroy
    @kendalldelroy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Connor Roy certainly has good taste in music. 🙌

  • @thinice6080
    @thinice6080 6 ปีที่แล้ว +472

    what a masterpiece, what a voice. So long, poet.

    • @fatal6849
      @fatal6849 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tears...

    • @trinidadapodaca7027
      @trinidadapodaca7027 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah so long, but i'm still here; trinidad apodaca poet: goog me gracious

    • @fatal6849
      @fatal6849 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@trinidadapodaca7027
      Quelle modestie !

  • @jeandupont5860
    @jeandupont5860 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    There is a women somewhere in that very earth. This song was written for her and me. Pure coincidence. I adore her and nobody will never know. Thanks for that music.

  • @taylorGre
    @taylorGre 3 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    I'm now 16 years old, balling my eyes out at 3:47 in the morning listening to this master piece, my mom brought me here as Leonard was her favourite artist. Listening to him just makes me feel as if she is sitting right next to me. Rest easy, and I'm sure she already asked you for a dinner date in heaven😅

    • @sofijamitic8687
      @sofijamitic8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I am also 16 and i feel the same as you

    • @juanmawr6330
      @juanmawr6330 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @allblack4777
      @allblack4777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Music crosses the boundaries between life and death. Some pieces more than others.
      This man was a Cohen. You should look up what the Cohen family name means.
      Love you, kiddo. I hope you enjoyed your mama's visit.

    • @johnbennettusa123
      @johnbennettusa123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I have tried to share him with my 3 children all now in their 30's .... I'll get there! .... (I also have tried in my way to be free) ....

    • @happytrails5342
      @happytrails5342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Give this cover a listen🙂
      th-cam.com/video/Oaf0gzQSiOM/w-d-xo.html
      And then AURORA Through The Eyes Of a Child

  • @butimar68
    @butimar68 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is becoming my favorite Cohen song. I struggle to handle sorrow and admire wisdom in it. Just so perfect.

  • @seeyouallintherapy
    @seeyouallintherapy ปีที่แล้ว +26

    connor succession so true

  • @Quzga
    @Quzga ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Connor Roy was interested in Leonard Cohen at a very young age

  • @johnrennie4270
    @johnrennie4270 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If any song I write gets halfway to matching one line of anything by The Master, I'll die content and happy. Hope you're happy in you're final retreat Leonard 😎❤️

  • @brizey9776
    @brizey9776 4 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    This song has a really specific feel. It almost smells of cigarettes, coffee, and a vague sense of nostalgia tinged with melancholy.

  • @kubi_lazy
    @kubi_lazy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +235

    "Thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes."
    It took me major heart break to understand how deep is this line.
    It was always there with my woman. But I tried to take it away, I couldn't. She didn't give me a good reason for the break up, I guess it was that trouble in her eyes, all the time.

    • @marita7424
      @marita7424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      "Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
      I thought it was there for good so I never tried." - by this he eventually admits that the 'friend' was able to make Jane happier than he ever could.

    • @kubi_lazy
      @kubi_lazy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      ​@@marita7424 Yes, exactly. This is why I said unlike Cohen I tried to take it away, but I couldn't. Sometimes It is that person for you, but you are not the one for them doesn't matter how hard you try. I hope she finds the person who will take the trouble from her eyes.

    • @marita7424
      @marita7424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@kubi_lazy Understand, however the whole song is about 'love triangle' as you know perhaps so that this is about another type of love.... the complicated one and painful.... While being interviewed on the BBC in 1994, Cohen was asked about the circumstances that led to the song. He said:
      I always felt that there was an invisible male seducing the woman I was with, now whether this one was incarnate or merely imaginary I don't remember. I've always had the sense that either I've been that figure in relation to another couple or there'd been a figure like that in relation to my marriage. I don't quite remember but I did have this feeling that there was always a third party, sometimes me, sometimes another man, sometimes another woman.

    • @kubi_lazy
      @kubi_lazy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@marita7424 Thank you, I knew the story already since I've searched after listening to it to understand further what he actually tells. I just found something similar with my last relationship in this small but strong detail and was pointing it out. I am aware the song is about something totally different than my point in general.

    • @marita7424
      @marita7424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@kubi_lazy The song is so close to my heart and soul, my broken heart. ...I new it was there for good so I never tried... I couldn't. Because.

  • @chantalpinchon3983
    @chantalpinchon3983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    J avais une vingtaine d'années quand j'ai découvert et aimé Léonard Cohen. J'ai 69 ans aujourd'hui et je l'écoute toujours avec la même émotion . Surtout " famous blue raincoat" .Aucune autre chanson ne provoque en moi un tel bouleversement. Merci Léonard d'avoir enchanté ma vie

    • @mazobrien7123
      @mazobrien7123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love from London. C'est vrai. Xx

    • @caitlinmelvage8967
      @caitlinmelvage8967 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      We are the same age and became aware of Leonard Cohen at an age before we knew what did or could lie ahead. We only "guessed" about love. All of who we would become was as yet unknown.
      But Leonard Cohen treated us to "flakes of his life" for all these years, like an emotional twin from whom we cannot separate our paths.
      I am grateful for his example for the finale.
      Like "The little Prince", I watch for Cohen in the stars.
      It's unbelievable that your comment evoked this. I've decided not to erase it. Sincerely, K. Fricks

    • @fatal6849
      @fatal6849 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@caitlinmelvage8967
      Life goes so fast. I was 15. I will be 64 in one month. What's happen?

  • @kirra77
    @kirra77 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My cat Oscar loved this song. I would rock him to sleep. It was so familiar to him. I played it hundreds of times for while rocking him to sleep. He was immediately limp. Like hypnosis. He died two months ago, I’m writing this while my Bluetooth speaker plays this beautiful song over top of his gravesite in my backyard. I hope he can hear it from the heavens above.

  • @mollyfurey894
    @mollyfurey894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I'm 18 years old and have only just discovered this song but by GOD it is good

    • @hookywookywithmalarkyman704
      @hookywookywithmalarkyman704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I went out to buy a classical guitar to learn how to play his songs when i was 22 & now i am 70 !!

    • @awikio
      @awikio 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How did it go?

    • @hookywookywithmalarkyman704
      @hookywookywithmalarkyman704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@awikio TH-cam is your friend !

    • @davidjordan9759
      @davidjordan9759 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Congrats on having the good taste to find it when it is now unfashionable. I first heard it about 50 years ago and it's still a favourite - together with 'That's no way to say goodbye'.

    • @FIONA21ful
      @FIONA21ful 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was 4 yrs old the first time I heard this and I was captivated for life. My hippy uncles playing records in the 1970s instilled a wonderful love of many types of music in me. This beautiful song remains my favourite of Cohens although I love most of his stuff.

  • @lynnmeadows177
    @lynnmeadows177 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    This song reminds me so much of Burt, that thin gypsy thief. What can I tell you my brother, my killer? Thank you sincerely Leonard Cohen for the soundtrack of my life. The music will live forever as will yr legend

  • @chrgon951
    @chrgon951 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Connor Roy for president 💯🤙🏻

  • @hayrettinsoyer5906
    @hayrettinsoyer5906 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The first time I heard Leonard Cohen from a cassette recorder in an old Bobble car to trip to Cappadoccia, I was with a stolen green-eyed girl to celebrate the new year. I was 30 years old. Then I heard him alive in "Kongeparken, Ålgård" I fall in love with the blond Choir girl on his right side. then I understood quite well "No cure for Love", I was with Suzanne.2.nd time I heard him alive again in an outdoor concert in Langesund on July.18.2009 with Anne, The last time I heard him a year after with his eternal Love Marianna sitting in front of me in the first VIP seat in front of me in Oslo Spectrum. Now I am 77 years of age, and my heart is still beating with a pacemaker, and I have no control of it.

  • @rebeccashardy6717
    @rebeccashardy6717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Once I owned a cerulean blue raincoat and yes, in honor of this great gypsy thief and chevalier, I wore it until it was worn and torn.

  • @RajeshSingh-je8nd
    @RajeshSingh-je8nd ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The level of writing in this song is absolutely astonishing.

  • @the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-.
    @the-bottom-of-a-black-hole-. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "My flower is wilted.
    I dined on her pedals.
    She died for what must've been vain.
    Vanity oh what a train.
    I stood before me out of sane."
    ,dan'

  • @icarussuraki9929
    @icarussuraki9929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I always have and probably always will find myself listening to this song in the last few days before New Year's Day...

  • @monke2871
    @monke2871 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    "And thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good so I never tried"
    Such an amazing line. And the clarity in the instruments and emphasis on the guitar as he sings it makes it hit so hard.

  • @DJYungHoxha
    @DJYungHoxha 7 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    R.i.p. leonard cohen.
    the last great poet of our time.
    fare thee well.

    • @bdrowe63
      @bdrowe63 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My eyes were shutting down for a time, then this....

    • @aclockworkapple5851
      @aclockworkapple5851 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      AnRTPgA More art will come, never underestimate the creative potential of humanity.

    • @MarkTheBattler
      @MarkTheBattler 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We’ve still got Tom Waits :)

    • @Hirnlego999
      @Hirnlego999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Cave and Waits are still here

    • @michaelmcgcp
      @michaelmcgcp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      We had Hunter when you wrote this and Dylan is around. Don’t be so discouraged

  • @Gammadian
    @Gammadian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    His songs are often sad, poignant and beautiful. As a teenager he touched me deeply, and continues to. I still sing his songs. Thank you Leonard, you are a great poet and singer.

    • @chrisbush1946
      @chrisbush1946 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just the greatest

    • @penelopehill9710
      @penelopehill9710 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here with resonanance of Cohen's lyrical voice singing to my broken heart yet . . . moving onwards with me my friend . . .

  • @yassinali4996
    @yassinali4996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +510

    really now is 4 in the morning end of december

    • @martinnolan4332
      @martinnolan4332 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yassin Ali dood

    • @museical72
      @museical72 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Mega mood my dood

    • @mparasc
      @mparasc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same in June, el mismo🙏

    • @justdelarge8256
      @justdelarge8256 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Borderina As concuerdo

    • @Happyheart146
      @Happyheart146 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      7 a.m BST. August.

  • @leonardneuville1792
    @leonardneuville1792 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    it is my great honor to have been named after this genius. A favorite of my mother's, my grandfather's and mine. Legendary writing, singing and living.

  • @klabautermann7384
    @klabautermann7384 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    This is one of the best songs ever written. Such a depth, and you feel as if you are really in New York in a lonely foggy road

  • @user-tb6uv1mv1x
    @user-tb6uv1mv1x 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    yes it is 4 in morning... december... heavy heart

  • @margogaunt6588
    @margogaunt6588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    well.. it is four in the morning, the end of december. i’m standing in this moment with this song resonating deeply in me... i hope the next year will be kind
    to all of you
    thanks leonard

  • @Maksenchabi15
    @Maksenchabi15 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It’s 4 in the morning the end of December indeed , listening to this masterpiece, from Montreal home of the legend Leonard Cohen.
    5 years ago I used to listen to it in my home country, now I’m living it.

  • @jomilkman
    @jomilkman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    The words "She sends her regards" delivered like a dagger. Geez, what a song.

  • @Cernumospete
    @Cernumospete 7 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    It is fascinating how his voice changed over time.

    • @martimribeiro7538
      @martimribeiro7538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      everyones voice...

    • @inkoinfinity2
      @inkoinfinity2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@martimribeiro7538 usually not to this degree

    • @somniansvulpes
      @somniansvulpes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      tobacco

    • @blank6165
      @blank6165 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@inkoinfinity2 smoking and the drink combined with aging will do that to a man

    • @inkoinfinity2
      @inkoinfinity2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blank6165 yes that is true

  • @fewescideas
    @fewescideas หลายเดือนก่อน

    ...dragi moj NYC je ti...kao takav....veliki shmeker....kako to prevesti?...nije ni bitno...bitno je...da smo se prepoznali...

  • @nickmiller3319
    @nickmiller3319 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "Thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good, so I never tried."
    The best lyric ever?

  • @nihalkumar9102
    @nihalkumar9102 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    It's been a ritual for me to wake up by 4 on the 31st of December and listen to this song from the past 3 years. Can't relate much with the overt themes in the song but it somehow still acts as a closure of every year for me. Let's see for how long this goes on. Cheers.

    • @caoimhinbenjamin9998
      @caoimhinbenjamin9998 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I once drove to a concert at four in the morning, the end of December with a friend, and this started playing on the radio as we drove. It was spooky. Sort of.

    • @nihalkumar9102
      @nihalkumar9102 19 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      Sounds surreal. I doubt it gets better than that. I'd love to stay in that moment forever.

  • @livinggrace4148
    @livinggrace4148 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love is the way the world was made❤️
    Hug someone today 🍁

  • @ajoyjana3991
    @ajoyjana3991 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Its not 5 in morning and end of January. I embrace this song like a scarf around my neck.

  • @anastassiyaschacht1828
    @anastassiyaschacht1828 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    On my first listening of this song, the line "thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes, I thought it was there for good, so i never tried" nearly broke me. I felt so deeply with Jane, knowing exactly how it felt for her, too. It still scratches like hell. Cohen has some indescribable magic in his texts.

  • @Whatzzzz999
    @Whatzzzz999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I can't think of another song that sets an atmosphere like this one.
    Listen to it at noon on a bright sunny July day, and it's immediately 4 in the morning, the end of December.
    Genius.
    And the lines:
    'Thanks
    For the trouble you took
    From her eyes
    I thought it was there
    For good
    So I never tried'
    A great song from a truly great album. Life-changing!

  • @andvipo
    @andvipo 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

    good to be here tonight

  • @Pedro83214
    @Pedro83214 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    One of the best songs ever...pure magic, pure beauty, pure love and forgiveness. May he live forever in the heart of God.

    • @Pedro83214
      @Pedro83214 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you for the like!

    • @idoavisar4845
      @idoavisar4845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Pedro83214 is the 'he' referring to the song or the artist?

    • @Pedro83214
      @Pedro83214 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@idoavisar4845 To the artist.

    • @anothertime1282
      @anothertime1282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm an atheist but I feel exactly what you mean.

    • @AurelMocanu
      @AurelMocanu ปีที่แล้ว

      Amen !

  • @adamlister3715
    @adamlister3715 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    One of the most amazing literary pieces ever written. RIP Leonard Cohen.

  • @serbianstallion8321
    @serbianstallion8321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Its four in the morning, the end of December and i'm listening to this song, neat.

    • @vicbarrett540
      @vicbarrett540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here. 31st December 2020.

    • @sharonrebibo1232
      @sharonrebibo1232 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@vicbarrett540
      Hope you feel fine today. 14th February 2024.❤❤❤

  • @kingleo6329
    @kingleo6329 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Redemption, peacefulness, the very spiritual sadness of man, whatever this song is, it is beyond love and hate, it is a glimpse of relief itself. Love this song from the very first time I heard it and it got me still.Thank you L.Cohen

  • @cliftongal51
    @cliftongal51 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I think Leonard Cohen's music must have contributed to many of our lives, after reading the comments below. I "discovered" his music when I was in college in the early 1970s. I was hooked, and by so many things I heard. His inherent sadness, resigned perhaps to it, but still something of a wild and romantic soul. These qualities jump out of his melodies and lyrics, and have allowed me to be sad, resigned, wild and romantic as well. It's never grown old, and it's heartening to read that a lot of young people have also "discovered" him.

    • @spiritofthewinds9089
      @spiritofthewinds9089 ปีที่แล้ว

      Beautiful words and so true. The impact of his music you've described, same for me. And even more. He gives me some weird and very special kind of tranquility and harmony in the darkness and believe me, I know the darkness. Whenever it gets to much and I feel like the end is very near, I listen to his music and I find comfort and peace within the sadness and all of the anger, desperation and all the negative feelings are blown off of me as if there was a storm that's going right through my mind and leaving nothing but a kind of empty but yet loving sadness that's almost like a friend, not an enemy. A friend that wouldn't hurt me, but soothes me and bears life with me. Even my body gets quiet in a good way, similar to the feeling you have when you've cried until you have no tears left and just feel... calm and exhausted. Don't know how to describe it, very bad with words. But I've never had this feeling before I heard Mr. Cohens music for the first time and never without it. He was a genius and an extremely sensitive, mindful and fascinating soul. His music is a wonderful and inspiring gift to humanity and same as you, I'm so glad even young people love and maybe even understand it. Although I'm young myself(28), but his music has been such a huge part of my life for many years and I'm sure without it my life would look a whole lot different today. Maybe I wouldn't even be here anymore.

  • @idat.n.3212
    @idat.n.3212 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There's something in this song, I listen to it without getting tired after thousands of times.

  • @mariaesther468
    @mariaesther468 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    One of those songs I wish could last forever...

  • @vusalaiskandarova
    @vusalaiskandarova 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Welcome to the melancholic souls club, nice to see you again. Come sit closer, here we go, cheers!

  • @webbstar303
    @webbstar303 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Always a joi to be reminded of the masterpiece that will sail you sweetly through lifes uncharted existential wilderness. Forever thank and love Leonard Cohen for steering the ship to the magic lands.

  • @loridair388
    @loridair388 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Christo just passed away, RIP. My husband and I drove through the Umbrellas installation in Southern California in 1991. He had made us a mix tape of yellow and blue songs (Christo installed yellow umbrellas in California, and blue ones in Japan). This is one of the songs on our mix tape, so I wanted to hear it now as a kind of farewell to Christo.

    • @Skanda1111
      @Skanda1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      So beautiful.I Hope you're doing great.

  • @albertomiranda5704
    @albertomiranda5704 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I am now in my twilight years, Cohen' s music and poetry were revealed to me a bit late in life, but it was a revelation. He mastered the definitive issues of human life, sex, religion, meaning and love, and a horror of domesticity. He was of the greats...

  • @byropesthrudirt
    @byropesthrudirt หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this is the saddest song

  • @tverboulsnoopy7259
    @tverboulsnoopy7259 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sleep well, Leonard. I am sorry you didn't get the Nobel. This song alone is worth it.

  • @Par1s4
    @Par1s4 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    It's 3 in the morning, 19 of December and I just discovered this wonderful song! What a great coincidence.

    • @Par1s4
      @Par1s4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And one year later I'm still here 16 of December 2021

    • @SlviaD
      @SlviaD 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      those are the best musical surprises

  • @Missjunebugfreak
    @Missjunebugfreak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Leonard Cohen's music is a balm to the soul.

  • @RIDETHESUNSHINE
    @RIDETHESUNSHINE 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    “No amount of soul searching would fix my past. There was no magical Band-Aid I could stick on my heart, no special glue I could use to make myself whole again. I had shattered to pieces like a fragile vase on concrete; some fragments could be roughly cobbled back together, but many of my vital parts had simply turned to dust, pulverized and scattered by the first gust of wind.”
    Julie Johnson, Like Gravity
    .
    .
    .
    .
    That was her. I can only Pray the grave gave her the peace this life never could.
    I made a unpaid career of trying to save fish from drowning. No matter how much you love them, you can't save anyone from themselves,
    Please Be Well, and Stay Strong, Will

  • @Argha07Chakraborty
    @Argha07Chakraborty ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's really four in the morning here in Kolkata. Far away from "new york is cold" but i can find acute similarity of the song. Late night work and someone that I've lost forever haunts me. Cohen sounds like my heart. I wish i were in his concert sometime. I wish cohen to be immortal.

  • @patriceglasson2413
    @patriceglasson2413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    cela fait presque 50ans que j'ai découvert Leonard Cohen et je ne m'en lasse pas. il me manque beaucoup. Be in peace Mister Leonard

  • @badstyles84
    @badstyles84 7 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    Rest In Peace, Beautiful Spirit. Deep Soul.

  • @TheUlumpa
    @TheUlumpa 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    რავიცი რამდენი წელი უნდა გავიდეს ❤

  • @adalorusso3816
    @adalorusso3816 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is 2024 Somebody please, more Leonard Cohen music

  • @gokselsezginer2978
    @gokselsezginer2978 7 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Thanks for the tears Leonard. They cant hurt you anymore

    • @dustandcold
      @dustandcold 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Göksel Sezginer Huzur içinde yatsın.

  • @lindyasimus
    @lindyasimus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    50 Years and we love it more than ever. Thanks Leonard.

  • @user-tg4pt1cw6f
    @user-tg4pt1cw6f 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That's pure poetry guys..
    A song like this simply marks your life..

  • @Argha07Chakraborty
    @Argha07Chakraborty 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Again, an obnoxious night, and Leonard saved me from the pangs of instability. Oh! tasks and works ruin people's lives; often. Without this song I would've easily hated my job and also the night.

  • @jamespatrickrobinson6418
    @jamespatrickrobinson6418 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    special shout out to Connor Roy

  • @MariolaM63
    @MariolaM63 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    głos, który nie zniknie z naszej fonii. Wielki szacunek.

  • @MuhammadAli-qb2co
    @MuhammadAli-qb2co ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Like beach foam , Sadness floats over me ..

  • @dudemang9869
    @dudemang9869 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The greatest line is “sincerely l. Cohen.” Hands down, best

    • @ivanacvetanovic7611
      @ivanacvetanovic7611 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The greastest lines are:
      "And what can I tell you,
      my brother, my killer,
      What can I possibly say?
      I guess that I miss you,
      I guess I forgive you,
      I'm glad you stood in my way

    • @dudemang9869
      @dudemang9869 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ivanacvetanovic7611 or and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes
      I thought it was there for good, so I never tried.

  • @julessmithers1743
    @julessmithers1743 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Without even listening to and processing the lyrics the sound and atmosphere alone is capable of evoking ones emotions from a very deep place in the soul. I was caught off guard unexpectedly when driving on a dark night when this came on and I burst of tears .

    • @anothertime1282
      @anothertime1282 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      'and I burst of tears. ' - think we've all shed those tears. We are a brotherhood of tears.

  • @tonybrough1757
    @tonybrough1757 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I first listened to Leonard around 73,and he has been with me ever since. Lucky enough to have seen him live 4 times over the years. He is still here with me today. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @ronnieforey2068
    @ronnieforey2068 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfect Mr. Pain........clouds. In my coffee......... Steve heard your tears ma......Bose worthy

  • @veraarmeni7715
    @veraarmeni7715 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    these backing vocals are so important for this composition