Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Audio)
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- Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Official Audio)
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Lyrics:
If you are the dealer
I'm out of the game
If you are the healer
It means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then
Mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame
Magnified, sanctified
Be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord
There's a lover in the story
But the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering
And a paradox to blame
But it's written in the scriptures
And it's not some idle claim
You want it darker
We kill the flame
They're lining up the prisoners
And the guards are taking aim
I struggled with some demons
They were middle-class and tame
I didn't know I had permission
To murder and to maim
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord
Magnified, sanctified
Be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the love that never came
You want it darker
We kill the flame
If you are the dealer
Let me out of the game
If you are the healer
I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory
Mine must be the shame
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord
Hineni
Hineni, hineni
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At the age of 83, with terminal cancer, he created the greatest album of his life.
"I struggled with some demons, they were middle-class and tame." never heard human tragedy being expressed more poetically.
I think the key to reading the song is there and the following line "I never knew I had permission to murder and to maim". The song may rely heavily on religious imagery, but I find it much more humanist.
@@anner.413 I take it more as linked to the previous line, condemning those who permit attrocity. While the rest of the song goes straight to the god who permits evil, these two lines go to the church within a capitalist realist world.
@@anner.413 What you are describing isn't freedom, freedom has no consequences. If you get punished for murder and maiming, you had no permission in the first place. Leonard struggled with his treatment of woman. His adultery. His not wanting to commit to the one. "I didnt know I had permission to murder and to maim" is sad really. Black. No Leonard saw it with both eyes, something many including you (Anne) will never see. He had permission to murder and to maim, truly without consequence. His self doubt was for nothing.
@Wasp Factory I’m not sure it was this huge classist jab, more his own confession. The man was raised in a very jewish middle class home in canada during the Holocaust. Kind of puts your problems in perspective growing in the shadow of that
@@ozu2647 well better to be in Canada than Germany during the holocaust.
Leonard Cohen was a genius. So much suffering and he expresses it so well. A timeless song.
These 5 minutes > wiseness that I've acquired over the last 30 Years.
"A million candles burning for the love that never came."
Damn. This one cuts deep.
What's crazy is it a religious reference saying a million prayers to God went unanswered.
@@christywright3430 @Christy Wright Bro, Cohen was Jewish but he didn't believe that one bit. The candles likely represent the souls of the million who died in Auschwitz, which was controversially never bombed.
@DanOfTheWild Imagine fucking justifying not stopping the holocaust
“magnifed, sanctified be that holy name
@DanOfTheWild it wasn't the Jews who killed Jesus?
It was the Romans
It is darker here without you Mr. Cohen. RIP
Can't believe assassins creed led me to finding this amazing song, holy shit
Me and my husband started to listening our wonderful poet / singer in 1985 . The same year when our son was born. And we still admire him and his poems
It's not a song, it's a testament.
It's an Old Testament...
Both.
God - How deep would you like your voice?
Leonard Cohen - *Yes*
wasn't his voice higher before like in th-cam.com/video/svitEEpI07E/w-d-xo.html
couldn't resist laughing out loud.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Some say his first love lost her virginity just from him whispering in her ear.
@@l1585 he took up smoking and then his voice went two octaves lower. Personally i found his deep voice to fit much better with his often bleak, defeatist lyrics. It gave him this tired-and-don't-care persona of an aging old man.
Leonard Cohen was recalled to higher service.
Endless thanks for allowing us to share the time and music with him.
In these times of darkness I pray the flame is not killed. I want it lighter.
"I'm ready my Lord" RIP Leonard Cohen.
American Gods brought me here. Can't believe I've missed out on this all these years.
snap
I just watched the episode and searched for the song immediately
yea same here heard it and had to find it. :)
Same... Leave it for American gods to deliver!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Who was that predator guy??
The world is much darker without Leonard Cohen. The flame died.!
I just heard this song for the first time in my life yesterday and I’m glad I found it. This is a masterpiece. I admire the courage & vulnerability Leonard showed here. He knew the end was near & he faced it with strength, bravery and unflinching acceptance. May he rest in peace & his legacy live on🙏🏾
Check out his Everybody Knows.
You never die. You just changed a dimension.
Well said!
👍
Gabor Dvornik In Buddhism there is no birth or death.
Never die, never
couldn't have put it better myself
“Hineni, hineni; I’m ready, my lord.” Hineni is Hebrew for “here I am” ( Cohen was 82 when released this song ). Genius !
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he basically sings how dark humanity is - we kill the flame (with permission to murder and to maim).
He's ready because of this: a million candles burning for a love that never came... He's ready (for eternal darkness - the flames burn for no one in the end).
It's also more than just Hineni, it's hineni twice. This seems to refer to the bible, the 2nd time it is mentioned is when Abraham presents his son to god - to sacrifice him: Here I am... Perhaps I'm too cynical about it, but wanting it darker is hard to see in a lighter sense ;)
"God calls Abraham by name, and Abraham’s response (Gen 22:1) is hineni: here I am. We can assume that God knows where Abraham is, and that Abraham himself knows that God does not need any help finding Abraham. So Abraham’s hineni is a response of a servant to his master, just as Abraham has already responded several times in faith earlier in Genesis: to leave his home and go where God sends him (Gen 12:1), and to trust in God’s promises (Gen 12:2-3; Gen 15, Gen 17 and Gen 18). But note that Abraham makes this first hineni response to God in chapter 22, before he knows what the Lord wants of him.
Abraham’s second hineni is in response to his son Isaac, as they are on the journey towards the mountain where Isaac is to be sacrificed. Isaac addresses Abraham as “my father”, and Abraham responds “hineni, my son” (Gen 22:7). This hineni is the loving response of a father to his son’s call, even more poignant as we know that Abraham is being asked to sacrifice his beloved son, his “only son” (Gen 22:2).
Abraham’s third and final hineni comes when the angel of the Lord intervenes, just as Abraham is about to kill his son. The angel calls his name twice: “Abraham, Abraham”, and Abraham responds: hineni (Gen 22:11). Abraham’s third hineni is once again the response of a servant, but from a deeper place, both emotionally and spiritually, from his first two “hineni”s. We may say that his first hineni comes out of awe, the second from love, and the third from his suffering. And therefore hineni implies not just readiness, not just service, but also surrender and taking responsibility - even being ready to change course if that’s what the Lord asks us to do.".
This is the only thing that makes me doubt my cynicism here... The 2 hineni's refer to love - seemingly.
At any rate, he considered himself to be a Jew and a Buddhist, an odd mix at best - making it harder to properly read into ;)
He knew the end was nigh, that is sure.
I don't know much about the Hebrew language, but as far as I know Samuel said "hineni" when he slept as a child in a temple called by god?
Like all songs of Cohen, they're so great/wise and make me think.
It's means ready by the full of his essence , not just I'm here
When Cohen's flame was extinguished the world became darker. But the spirit of his beautiful music and wisdom of his profound poetry will continue to console us as it accompanies us on our journey through the deepest darkness of the human soul and the endless universe.
❤
Dank dir du Guter für deine weisen Worte!
He left us 7 years ago , on november 7th and we still miss him so much.
I was lucky enough to hear him at the very beginning, in 1972, in a university gymnasium in Montpellier..... there were several hundred of us, sitting on the floor, and it was the beginning of a discovery that would never end. Thank you for everything you've given us, Léonard.
"Leonard Cohen was a really good musician"
-Sun Tzu
ahahahahha
"Lol"- Sun Tzu
"what he said" the buddha
aye that'd be true
"I really love his music hallelujah when he talks about me, it was an honor, truly an honor" -David
This man can t never die.
double negative?
grammar nazi?
More poetic that way.
badweather crow i mean lord off the notes, can never die, man off the world like cohen can t never died
no, you are spot on, my comment was meant for kiakingofcars not you. Leonard Cohen will live on in our heads and our hearts forever.
If anyone wants to know what old age feels like, listen to Cohen's later work. It's poignant, sad, angry and beautiful. My late father loved his music, I'm so sorry I didn't get it at the time.
Day 232 of listening to this song everyday for a year.
This song was pretty badass when I discovered it. Once I found out the singer was in his 80s and died a few weeks after its release, the badass levels broke the scales. What a way to go out. RIP Leonard Cohen 🙌🏾
He will never die through his brilliant music
This whole album is incredible. Listen to this one and “the future” if you want to have a life changing experience
He fell in his sleep.
Speehless!!! I just heard a part of this song on the "walking dead" something made me search part of the lyric & it's just a bad tune all the way around!!! Rip
I also have 2 brothers in prison for murder & I'm printing out these lyrics & mailing it to them both!!! Maybe they can find PEACE from this song......
The darkest of weeks. Leonard, even your exit was poetic.
I came to Leonard Cohen's in my thirties.... I'm now in my sixties and have not stopped listening to his beautiful music and I will continue to listen until I can listen no more.... was also lucky enough to see Mr Cohen in concert on numerous occasions and it was an absolute joy to do so, thank you Leonard.
You sir are a legend, I’m in my early 20s. I was also taught to respect my elders (older than me to be more specific) I hope you have lived the life you want and to many more years of experiences my good sir.
Day *365* of listening to this song everyday for a year.
Thanks to everyone who has followed me on this long, incredible journey of listening to this fine masterpiece by Mr. Cohen. This song has touched and shaped me for who i am today and it will forever sit deeply in my heart . I will continue to cherish my love for this song and praise the legendary Leonard Cohen. Thank you and till next time.
Wow...
What made you decide to listen to this particular song every day for a year?
@@lornes9853 I found this song while researching Leonard Cohen and fell in love with it. I listened to it for weeks until i challenged myself to do it everyday for a year. This song relaxes me and is an escape mechanism for me. I will always listen to it.
@@sabrinajohnson8537 I wouldn't have described the song as relaxing, but I'm glad it had a positive effect for you! By the way, I worked on this song so my relationship with it is different and personal. Another story, another time....
Yeh, well said. Any song that makes you contemplate it all is well thought out. Gives me chills!
I feel like he is singing inside my brain. RIP. Cohen, you were legend who will be missed!
Shh, he is. ;-)
+Ana Spann he's singing inside all of our brains now.
yes he is
Deborah Lynch RIP
ending on video at www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792 says it all ... R I P
This is the first time I've ever heard a Leonard Cohen song. Woah...
You've definitely heard his work before. He wrote songs like Hallelujah, So Long Marrianne, Suzanne.
You owe it to yourself to listen to his first three studio albums - they're all masterpieces
Also "Dance Me to the End of Love" is a popular one among indie performers. The Civil Wars did a good cover of it.
O oo man...get ready.
Oh dude, good for you, seriously man. I remember first being exposed to Leonard Cohen music, it was amazing. If you use Spotify, I highly recommend you check out the albums "Songs of Leonard Cohen" (his debut album) and "I'm Your Man."
Hope you like them man. The beauty of living in the modern age of instant information at your finger tips is the amount of music from yesteryear you can listen to within seconds.
I literally LOVE every verse of this. It is pure poetry inspired by a man's impending doom. He knows it won't be long. This one is especially beautiful to me.
"There's a lover in the story
But the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering
And a paradox to blame
But it's written in the scriptures
And it's not some idle claim"
The true meaning of 'poetry in motion'.
It's haunting & chilling how he said "Himeni" ("Here I am"), & "I'm ready my lord" right before his passing. But his memory and music will live on.
did you see the Rabbi Sacks video essay on this song-- very very powerful
RandomDude WhoLikesHip-Hop thanks 😀
Just what I thought. It's like he wrote this song to god.
Pro Era
Hineni*
הינני in hebrew
The depth of this song. Knowing his time was coming and he was just getting prepared as he was looking for his Jewish roots. Hinanie hinanie I am ready my lord. This mad was made of good. No one will ever the ability to duplicate his lyrics. May he rest in peace!
Man*
josh anderson it's fantastic. Spesial the meaning between words
I’m ready my lord
Bones and all❤
This song is perfect for the film
Love the movie
Cohen's flame will NEVER die, even his cigarette is burning.
I believe you.
this cat still had it going on..amazing artist..
Tim Maloney ......he surely did. I didn’t get to see him until 2010 and even in older age, the man was truly spectacular. I’ve loved Leonard for almost 50 years and his voice on this album is so rich and beautiful, aged to absolute perfection. If you’re not familiar with his work, I can’t recommend the man highly enough. We often hear of “Suzanne” and “So Long Marianne” etc. and while lovely, there are countless lesser-known gems. Should you care to explore Leonard a little, here’s a few off the top of my head.... “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong” (an early personal favourite), “Last Year’s Man” , “Mastersong” (truly brilliant lyrics) “The Gypsy’s Wife” through to the somewhat startling “The Future” and so very much more. Leonard released many fine albums over the years (as well as books of Poetry) ending with this beauty. I love pretty much everything the man ever did.
what a great gift he gave us for his birthday!
Happy birthday to a true genius loved u since the beginning x
Incredibly brilliant thank you Leonard Cohen!
Hope he won't die just upon it #DavidBowie
Teema Darwinisti [[
Excuse me?
I think when I first heard Leonard Cohen in 1970 I wasn't ready for him. He was so different way ahead of his time for sure. He just got better and better as he aged. I found this song especially relevant to me and my family at this time.
Every atom in my body feels this song
If a man was appointed to make the soundtrack for life, love and death Leonard was that man. Have a nice trip Home. Thanks for everything.
Home with a capital H. Hear, hear.
Life is imitating a journey in the countryside. We're all here to enjoy the view, some of us are kind enough to plant a tree or two for others to enjoy while paving on the same road. Leonard was one of the exceptions. He planted a whole forest for us. I'm grateful...
religion is a sham.
Hate to say it, but prepare to confront with the idea that almost everything we seem to perceive as "real" in this world is a "sham" as well. Except (maybe) for hope, love and belief. Pick your medicine...
Costantinos Sga........how disappointing, you comment (profoundly) on Cohen's work then in the same breath, dwell on negativity. What's wrong with hope, love and belief?
Another music hero dies - God must be looking for a gorgeous band in 2016!
Thanks for all your fantastic rough smooth stories in music you left back on earth, there won't be never such a voice again!
There went the prophets
Jazz- Soulfan Our ol' friend Grim has been working overtime in 2016
I discovered Leonard Cohen over 35 years ago, went down a serious rabbit hole, bought all his albums going back to 1967, bought all his books of poetry. Like any kid, when I heard the sweet melodic sounds of Chelsea Hotel and then heard the line "giving me head on the unmade bed" I was like WHOA! This guy's a badass! Lol but his ability to put to words the human experience, humanities frailty and flaws, wants and desires, the good the bad the ugly. I think as a teen it was his "being real" that first hooked me, but as I've aged I've only gotten to appreciate him more. Leonard Cohen songs often said the quiet parts out loud. Put voice to our most vulnerable thoughts and feelings we hold quietly inside.
Day 59 of listening to this song everyday for a year.
They called his music “Songs to slit your wrists to!” but the fascinating Leonard Cohen, was my favourite poet, singer-song-writer and personality. I never liked poetry, but Leonard Cohen's poems were an exception. I was never a music lover but his songs were an exception. His words reflected his turbulent life. He could be so soulful thoughtful, even dark and depressive but with a unique and striking sense of humour. I never met him but I just loved the man.
Ι totally agree with you!!!!!!!!
Barbara MacArthur.........whereas I have always loved poetry and music and indeed Leonard Cohen. As a girl, I was ridiculed for listening to the "depressing" Cohen, I'm so glad I've never listened to "knockers", I adore everything LC has ever done. And yes, I think many folk miss the fact that Leonard's sense of humour was exquisite.
“Songs to slit your wrists to" doesn't mean it in the literal sense but it means his music makes you look deep inward down to the dark places of our minds that we don't like to go.
Jrock420blam ......oh, I assure you it was meant in the strictest sense, at least in my experience. In my youth, I only knew *one* other person who enjoyed Cohen’s material, *everyone* else (without exception) mocked me regards my “awful, depressing, suicidal music”. Now all these years later, Leonard is gone and everyone *loves* the man, people are fickle.
The lyric "Everything as a Crack; that's how the light gets in" is what has KEPT me from slitting my wrists at times!!
I woke up soon today, i did my morning meditation, i ate my breakfast, and then i open Facebook. All the positivity i have reached, disappeared when i read about leonard cohen's death. I start to cry, the tears were falling from my eyes and i can't stopped them. I told my father about this, trying to make my voice less trembling than i can. I went in my bedroom and i felt my face burning, with hot tears falling. I was full of pain, i sighed slowly, i dried my wet eyes and go to school, with all this negativity. Now i'm fine, because he left many beatiful things to us, because death is the most natural thing on this earth and because i think he did the best with his life. Thank you Leonard you changed my still short life.
He passed away at a ripe age, surrounded by loved ones, with a fantastic career and impact on many, many people's lives. It's all anyone can hope for. :)
Luca Maresci i send you love. thank you for taking the time to share. i have felt the same
I, Kruppe it's just the way I felt
Luca Maresci, thank you for sharing. I reacted the same way as you did and I keep watching videos of him on TH-cam and reading articles on him, and it hurts so much. This beautiful, gentle, tormented soul is gone and my heart is broken.
Gisèle Thibeault I'm doing the same, for example now i'm in love with the video of "In my secret life" and with old concerts version of "Suzanne" and "Take this waltz". And i can't stay without listening to the album "New skin for the old cerimony", songs like "Field commander cohen" and "A singer must die" are so powerful to me
This song is a Jewish confession before death. In Judaism, it is customary before death to hold a confession and admit transgressions about the mitzvot of do and don't do according to the word of God.
It is so deep that I understand the use of the word darker. At the end of the confession he says the word "Here I am" in Hebrew which means - "I am ready" or "I accept". This is a completely Jewish text with reference to the Jewish Kaddish prayer for the deads. Jesus was also Jewish, therefore the crucified in a human frame, describes the human soul that wants to live imprisoned inside a human body and wants to be freed.
Thank you! 🙏
I came here after seeing the "Bones and all" trailer, which is already in itself a true masterpiece... I cannot wait to see the movie !
So sad that the movie didn't play this song during the end credits.
The Patient on Hulu played it on its closing credits, final episode.
Today is a very sad day for me. I loved you since i was a teenager. You'll remain in my memory forever! RIP Leonard.
It must be great to know you are finished :) Don't feel sad
I arrive Leonardo, be patient it will not be long.
It hurts so much!
R.I.P. Leonard
I totaly agree!
Laura Van Houtte T
I grew up with your music...... Suzanne.... in the 60s... I will miss you! RIP, Leonard. 💔
My thoughts precisely!
R. I. P
There was just no one like him. His voice, especially here, with the whispery sound, is hypnotic.
You want it darker....we kill the flame.
I didn't grow up in Quebec, but my family is all from here and I currently live in Montreal. The unique thing about this place, Quebec and Montreal, is that religion is part of the framework here in a way that I really can't begin to explain to people from other parts of Canada. Cohen struggled a lot, it seemed, with his relationship to the religious and the spiritual, but it is a consistent part of almost all of his work. And I think Montreal, being here, you start to understand some of why that is. There is Jewish and Christian symbology all over this city, and everything here is named after a saint of some kind,. Montreal is known as a city of churches. I feel like being here has helped me connect more with where he was coming from and what shaped his music.
Do not stand at my gave and weep
I am not there,
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight
On the ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rushof quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there.
I did not die.My Spirit is still alive…
brian kelly
brian kelly s
This beautiful Poem is from Mary Elisabeth Frye
Beautiful words, brian kelly.
Why you put that "My spirit is still alive..." on the end? It's not in the original poem and it's awful.
A million candles burning for the love that never came.
7 11 it’s actually help
Parsa Shirali Both are said in the song, just in different verses.
Colby Brown ah right sorry
That one line chills me to my soul.
I had tears when he said a million candles for the help that never came. Imagine all those prayers and silent screams in churches going in waste
R.I.P LÉONARD !!! YOU ARE THE BEST FOREVER AND EVER, AMEN !!!
RESPECT, NELLY, BELGIQUE.
This last album is his goodbye. Leonard Cohen will be with us always and I take great solace in that, though right now I'm just sad. My tears flow and I'm grateful you were here Mr. Cohen. And that you cared so much you took the time to say goodbye to us all.
camabelu e
words are mine
I am so sad too.... :-(
I feel the same way . And you have said it better than I could ...
I AM SAD TOO . BUT DON T BE SAD , HE IS REACHMAN , BOB MARLEY SEYS .. REACHNEST IS LIFE FCOREVER...
"I'm ready my lord"
- few weeks later he passes away
@ULTRA TENso true.
Legend. RIP
The song is defying and accusatory, God did not take it well...
But the lightning would not work (again!) so God tasked his administration and it took them weeks because of unwieldy paperwork and incompetence.
Cohen did not lead a life according to his Lord's diktat.
He had leukemia and he was literally old as shit. He 100% knew where things were going, that's why he wrote that.
Leonard...you are still with us...forever...genius.....thank you!
On this day in Music - 21 Oct 2016
Leonard Cohen released his last album, You Want It Darker, 17 days before his death. Cohen was in poor health while the album was being made, and never went to the recording studio, relying on his son Adam to handle the sessions and integrate his tracks. The title track was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance in January 2018.
What a great bass line. Fascinating, haunting lyrics. I just fell for this song a few months ago, now he's gone. Bye, Len. R.I.P.
RIP LEONARD COHEN, WHAT IRONY TO HAVE ONE OF YOUR BEST SONGS CLIMBING THE CHARTS AS YOU EXIT ....STAGE RIGHT . !!!! THANK YOU FOR A UNIVERSE OF MUSIC AND POETRY .
Absolutely agree. It's rare to find such a combination of artistry, humility, humour and humanity in a performer, and we are diminished by his passing. Thanks for the memories - as he wrote in a letter to Marianne when she was dying - 'I'll see you down the road'...
Frank, I do not think it is an irony. On the contrary it is a form of art: the art of going out YOUR way. Just a thought. God must be really angry with us this week. :-(
He did what he loved, giving and inspiring until his final days. I don't know if that's how he would've chosen to spend them, but I know it's something that I'll always remember of him.
Heard this amazing Masterpiece in our Dutch Top2000 charts (end year's tradition) where it has risen again insanely, and i see why.
As a Atheïst in kidney and heart, i totally admire Mr. Cohen's view and how he translated it into this song. Perfectly accompanied by the drum beat and choir.
"If you are the dealer, let me out of the game."
"A million candles burning. For the help that never came."
L. Cohen was an absolute master.
he said, "I am Here", and didn't say "I'm gone".....he's still here somewhere and in our Hearts forever....the "Flame is still here"......it's Leonard.....
Nicely put...delicately put...PERFECT comment.
Leaving a body of work is a great way to live forever.
fucking cringe
Vera Scroggins he said"I'm here" to the That means he was ready for the DEATH
"They're lining up the prisoners, and the guards are taking aim;
I've struggled with some demons, they were middle class and tame.
I didn't know I had permission
to murder and to maim."
That has got to be the most raw verse I have ever heard in my entire life.
Prophetic
It's happened b4 and will happen again. (Soon)
There a lot out there
The ultimate poet
Can't go wrong with Leonard, our beautiful poet R.I.P.
seems like required listening for very dark times
Day 157 of listening to this song everyday for a year.
This goes perfectly with "Everybody Knows."
Deep deep deep. So gifted.
Oh! Now that song I've not thought of in awhile! Going to listen to it now! thanks✌💚
Very similar imagery used.
This mans voice is haunting. I love it.
Leonard was honest and deep.
I understand him well.
I hope he is blessed on th other side
Passion pour cet homme, sa voix, ses chansons,. C'est un immense cadeau pour l'humanité. ❤❤❤❤❤
Another settlement needs your help. Here, I'll mark it in the map.
when you go to the store looking for the 90% chocolate
Yesss darker
Underrated comment lmao
Good one
I genuinely laughed at this
Bahaha well done
Thank you Mr. Cohen. You made this world a much better place. Rest in peace.
A million candles burning for a love that never came
I revisit this song often, because I'm fucking sane.
Nobody like him before and Im sure nobody like him after he is gone, an original first class gentleman. merci.
And a amazing poet
Now he's gone. And you're still right, I think. And I am still so grateful. So sad, so grateful.
He's a part of the Old School, that we can never replace. Nobody can sing like him.
I don't know.. Like, what the hell are we going to do know ?
Leonard is gone.. And with him, a part of the music generation that, kept it going, no matter what.
There were no talking about, quitting while on top. Taking a break.
i actually believe, that his song, was his way of telling us that this was his last piece of art. He knew he were dying, and this was his way of telling us.. By making one hell of a good album.
So many childhood memories with his music. Damn it !
R.I.P Leonard. #SoLong
Hineni, Hineni
I'm ready, my lord..
Man. This sure is the year of The Grim Reaper
Yeah man, you're absolutely right. Started the year with losing a friend to Suicide, and now this. Fucking hell. Fuck this year, let 2017 come..
This song was released 17 days before he past away. Very deep and very poetic
I'm ready, my Lord
Beautiful... Just beautiful. ❤
Who else is here after watching the conclusion of “the patient”? Beautifully haunting song.
his voice is so deep, it's absolutely mesmerizing
Anyone can talk like that. You just kind of let your trachea flap (rather than using the actual voice box).
@@lyrimetacurl0 You're delusional. Talking raspy does not make your voice sound as deep, it just makes you sound like you've got vocal fry!
@@lyrimetacurl0 his voice has always been very deep, and it's one of his trademarks
@@lyrimetacurl0 smh
I love his voice
If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame
Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the help that never came
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord
There's a lover in the story
But the story's still the same
There's a lullaby for suffering
And a paradox to blame
But it's written in the scriptures
And it's not some idle claim
You want it darker
We kill the flame
They're lining up the prisoners
And the guards are taking aim
I struggled with some demons
They were middle class and tame
I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord
Magnified, sanctified, be thy holy name
Vilified, crucified, in the human frame
A million candles burning for the love that never came
You want it darker
We kill the flame
If you are the dealer, let me out of the game
If you are the healer, I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory, mine must be the shame
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my lord
Hineni
Hineni, hineni
Hineni..
Thanks
thanks for printing out the words - this is dark and one of Leo's depressing best......
keith sweat good love
THANKS FOR THE LYRICS/
Thank you very much for the texte.
He said I AM READY MY LORD, and really was ready to go. Rest in peace legend!
Mr.Mystic THATS WHAT HE MENT WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS HIS LAST SONG WHAT WOULD YOU THINK THAT HE MENT WITH:Im ready,my lord.
Johnny Cash : Hurt
Lou Reed : Junior Dad
David Bowie : Blackstar
Leonard Cohen : You Want It Darker
**David Bowie: Lazarus
Chester Bennington : One More Light
Freddie Mercury : These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Michael Jackson : This Is It
Joey ramone: what a wonderful world
Kurt cobain: you know you're right
@@maciejolejnik1176 I would say ''The show must go on" :)
Hugo Murcek yeah.Keep that coming.
As I am writing this while listening to this song... I'm currently in a bad episode of depressions and it has been like this for years. This song hits me on another level, straight into the soul but it gives me some sort of hope and strenght to endure my state of mind. I know it will get better but it is just a matter of time until the next episode strikes.
Mr. Cohen once said a few words about depressions and these words decribe perfectly how I feel in such moments.
"I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse."
Take care of you all out there.
hang in there kwad. it doesn't always get better but, every time you sink, you build up a little more psychic muscle to carry the weight. in depression there is truth. life is v hard for everyone. bw and good luck. aj
Keep well
Life a gift, hang on 😻
Thank you a lot. The past months have been a bit rough but I am still alive and somewhat fine with my life. You also take care of you.
Haven't noticed a reply. Thanks, it's going ok for me. Started out a new life as a single in my new apartment yesterday and well, it is tough but there is some pioneer spirit inside of me and I want to get things done.
You have an awesome life, take care.
I’m ready, my lord! so deep! what a legend!
He was 82 when he released it and as sharp as ever . I wish i will be able to remember my name at that age.
MajsteR A
It's possible, my grandma did so as well :)
I am sure he will remind you when you meet one day,x
Lol its normal to Renneberget your age at 82
i will
R.I.P. Leonard. We miss you so much!
Only a great man can say: I´m ready my lord..........
Kari Virtanen indeed
I am here yet again after watching the trailer of Bones and All.
One ☝️ awesome film 🎞️! 🦴
@@chka5324 yes, I did! The performances of Taylor and Timothèe were so gently carried out that I wanted the screen to devour me, just so I could hug them and hold their hands! Tenderly lyrical and poetic in all the right ways. Do watch it if you haven't yet! (The cannibalistic scenes are intensely disturbing, tho)!
@@laurendavie4326 100%! 🧚🏻♀️🫂
"I'm ready, my lord" :( Perceived his farewell and wrote it in his last disc, like Bowie. Immortal grandeur
I had that very same thought
you and dylan - no one else...
And Simon.
and J.R.C.
and Neil Young
And Tom Waits and Nick Cave.
And Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and Eddie Cochran and Bruce Springsteen.
God will request Leonard Cohen compose the soundtrack for the closing credits for the end of the world. Leonard Cohen: Aged to Perfection. Thank you for another set of lyrics people will be debating over for years to come.
He already did: "Popular Problems"
True!
junewilde k'kk
He did "Closing Time".
_SARI _
This Year is for the GREATEST songs about face the death, "Lazarus" and "You Want It Darker"
I hate that it is. Sad to say goodbye to two incredible musicians that were larger than life. Thank you for your goodbye, Leonard.
respect through tears
You forgot Blackstar
Blackstar sounds more like Bowie looking at his career and reaffirming his status
***** Good point
hes voice MAAAAN
*That entire album is totally haunting and heartbreaking... We can hear the last steps of an old man, considering the wounds and the ephemeral joys of his past. After a long journey into the darkness, penetrated by some lightning, Leonard Cohen is now ready to close the book of his life for good : he did what he had to do. Thank you so much, dear Leonard, for all the beauty and the emotions that you gave to your listeners during all these years. It is priceless. Your flame will survive to your body, at the time to leave. The sacred fire of your soul cannot be killed. It is living inside us and we won't let it go.*
Thank-you, that's a beautiful elegy to the great Canadian poet and singer/songwriter, Thibault Marconnet.
It’s a very beautiful tribute to him & to his work ! Rip Leonard Cohen ! 😿
You're welcome, Linda, I miss that great poet.
Beautiful! He wrapped it up for us!!
Wow
Imagine a colaboration of Massive Attack with Mr. Cohen .
because this is pure bliss
TheSporehacker Oh definitely
it sounds like a massive attack beat
TheSporehacker you listen to that Burial Massive Attack collab? that was awesome
Mr Cohen a great poem and songwriter is gone. RIP. In thoughts you're with us
May he rest in peace
An anthem for the 21st century
My Uber driver was playing this, and then half way through apologized and said I'll change it, I said sir if you want a tip you WILL NOT change this, so carry on and turn it up if you want 👌👌... I never heard it before so I was digging it
awesome.
Cool driver
Was he hot?
A little bit
Te lo cogiste al menos?
2016 is a year that is taking a lot of souls .
yes, in Syria.
+maxmoderator1 No, America take a lot of souls in Syria, and 2016 is just a year, like many of others.
Our ol' friend Grim Reaper has been working overtime
That What I've Been Saying!!!!!
2016 is a year of great pain and terrible anguish. The swan song of many a great artist lamenting the spiral staircase traveling down.
Bones and all Trailer brought me here. 🙌🏼
Rest in peace, legendary man. Also, 2016, fuck off already.
"2016, fuck off already." QFT. Wise words, brother, wise words.
at least Dylan got a Nobel Prize... that's something
Amen, goodguypete. . '17 calls upon us all to grow a few inches in height, ignore the media's narcissistic projections of red & blue states, mix 'em up and make 'em purple.
Mr. Cohen understood that. His poetry was the lance piercing the armor of petty bloviating con men like "The King of Orange" and his fascist minions:
"I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me."
Pete I'm with you on that one mate..it's gotta go ,I think we should take a few undesirables down with it too...what a fucking horrible year .
cohen should have Got it.
"I'm ready, my Lord."
That is not easy to say as a mortal. That foreshadowing was very brave including the lyrics on Leaving the Table!!!
This album gave me so much goosebumps.
Well he did know he was at the end of his life so I think it was more of he’s accepting that it’s the end for him and he’s ready
He only said the truth. Ha'Shem is on his side! - Shalom, brother. -🕎🔯
Anybody here because they love and respect this amazing man's body of work?
There is a video that shows him backstage...so overwhelmed by the applause that he was shocked and brought to tears. There's just something about that, that makes me listen to his lyrics.
There is also a documentary where Mr. Cohen tells of being so filled with emotion and stage-fright that he walked off the stage in tears. He said that he began to hear the most beautiful sound....it was his audience singing lovingly to HIM, ..encouraging him to come back out!!
Totally yes.
Thanks to everybody who answered my question on this thread.
A LEONARD COHEN STORY...to go down in history maybe.....
I would love to share a very touching and funny moment in my life which included my best friend's son who hated Leonard Cohen and the fact that my best friend and i had spent years, nay decades taking ridicule from my best friend's son because of our adoration for everything that is and was Leonard Cohen.
So, after years of ridicule on the subject, the following really happened. My best friend's son decided to get married. A night before the wedding, we were all around at my best friend's house when he decided to play one of Leonard's songs. Off marched my best friend's son to do what he normally did. TURN THE CD PLAYER OFF and replace Leonard with other songs as soon as his father's back was turned. A huge argument ensued and in the battle many swear words were exchanged. So, that sets up the night before the wedding.
Moving forward to the day of the wedding and trust me, you couldn't make this up. I am sitting next to my best friend's brother who has decided to film the wedding(with permission) and just as he turns the camera towards my best friend's son, i happen to notice my best friend talking to his ex-wife. Quite a lovely moment captured on the camera. But what came next has to be one of the funniest things i have ever witnessed. The vicar has started to talk very quietly to the bride-to-be and the groom(my best friend's son remember..and ultimate hater of Mr Cohen and his music), when suddenly, with no warning a song starts to gently play in the background...Leonard Cohen's SECRET LIFE...my best friend picks up on the moment and turns to look at his brother and in particular, myself to see if i have heard Leonard. Damn right i had. I was doing my level best not to give away my "internal laughter of epic proportions" and slowly failing in my task..looks passed back and forth(with larger and larger smiles..and a little laughter until suddenly my best friend's brother started laughing because he had noticed my best friend's son had suddenly woken up to the idea that somehow LEONARD COHEN has found his way into the wedding.
Now the laughter has spread as people in the congregation who were asking each other what the laughter was about and word was spreading about what is happening...THE WHOLE CHURCH IS NOW IN FITS OF LAUGHTER...as the slightly angry groom turned and said to the vicar....
"sorry Vicar, do you mind me asking..WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT PLAYING FOR....WHO ARRANGED THIS SH*T"...the vicar's answer came swift and sure.."i guess that would be the great Leonard Cohen himself son...i think the man worthy of playing at anybody's wedding..or FUNERAL of course...are you ready to get married my son?"
THE MARRIAGE barely lasted a year....topped sadly by Leonard's sad demise.
STILL...we have the great man's creation..RIP sir...as one songwriter to another...respect to you.
I suspect Leonard is looking down and laughing...
I dont know why leonard's music is so depressive for many people ...but to me is pure joy
I agree. Hallelujah!
because many people believe that if you ignore the darkness it magically dissappears. so the thought of facing the darkness is simply depressing and horrific for most.
I'm ready my lord.
Forget whatever adriana said. Being a fulltime drinker each weekend.ill tell you...least for me the catholic,its conscience. Goodluck escaping your catholic guilt,I know I haven't yet lmao
Ha! My former husband took my pleasure in Leonard's music as proof I was depressive...it is joy! ?!