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Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for.
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Every heart to love will come
But like a refugee.
The Future (1992)
It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Beautiful Losers (1966)
And here you are hurried,
And here you are gone;
And here is the love,
That it's all built upon.
Ten New Songs (2001)
I told you when I came I was a stranger.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
"Complain, complain, that's all you've done ever since we lost,
If it's not the crucifixion then it's the holocaust."
Various Positions (1984)
I have no program, I have no five-year plan.
Warsaw concert (1985)
Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Songs from a Room (1969)
Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road.
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this
or any other matter.
When he talks like this
you don't know what he's after.
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
The Future (1992)
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
I'm Your Man (1988)
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
I'm Your Man (1988)
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.
The Future (1992)
What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.
Beautiful Losers (1966)
I finally broke into the prison
I found my place in the chain
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
Songs from a Room (1969)
I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie.
I do what I have to do to get by.
But I know what is wrong and I know what is right,
and I'd die for the truth in my secret life.
Ten New Songs (2001)
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.