Ticket Giveaway: Leonard Cohen @ HP Pavillion
Legendary singer-songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen will be performing at HP Pavillion on November 13. The show comes less than a year after performing his first American concert in fifteen years. Judging by the superb Live in London, recorded at London’s O2 Arena in July 2008 and released in March 2009, Cohen hasn’t lost his edge.
With a career spanning four decades, Cohen is one of the most celebrated song writers of all time. He is generally regarded as second to only Dylan among musicians from the ’60s who are still active. His songs have been covered by hundreds of musicians from all genres, including R.E.M., The Pixies, Willie Nelson, Nick Cave, Elton John and U2.
24 years after it’s release, three versions of Cohen’s “Hallelujah” charted simultaneously in England in December 2008 following performances in both American Idol and Britain’s X Factor (Jeff Buckley’s version at #1, X Factor winner Alexandra Burke at #2 and Cohen’s original at #36).
We’re very excited to announce that we have a pair of tickets to give away to one lucky reader. To enter, leave us your favorite Cohen lyric in the comments (include your email so we can contact you). A winner will be picked at random on November 2.
For the rest of you, tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
MP3s:
Leonard Cohen – “Suzanne”Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah” [Live]
Jeff Buckley – “Hallelujah”
Let’s sing another song, boys,
this one has grown old and bitter.
Boogie Street
Crown of Light, O Darkened One,
I never thought we’d meet.
You kiss my lips, and then it’s done:
I’m back on Boogie Street.
“…the skylight is like skin for a drum I’ll never mend
and all the rain falls down amen
on the works of last year’s man.”
“Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love,
Oh tangle of matter and ghost
Oh dariling of angels, demons and saints
And the whole broken-hearted host
Gentle this soul”
From The Window
Yes, you who are broken by power,
you who are absent all day,
you who are kings for the sake of your children’s story,
the hand of your beggar is burdened down with money,
the hand of your lover is clay.
the black ram
stands alone
with his bone
and the ewe
(she is not you)
is waiting for the ram
to return
and be reborn
But you got away, didn’t you, baby?
You just threw it all to the crowd
You got away, they can’t pay you now
For making your sweet little song
There’s a crack
A crack in everything
That is how the light gets in,
Yes, you who are broken by power,
you who are absent all day,
you who are kings for the sake of your children’s story,
the hand of your beggar is burdened down with money,
the hand of your lover is clay.
Climb on your tears and be silent, like a rose on its ladder of thorns
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
“I freeze with fear, but I’m there for you.”
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed.
Everybody knows that the war is over
everybody knows the good guys lost.
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
the poor stay poor, the rich get rich.
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
If it be your will
that I speak no more
and my voice be still
as it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will
That a Voice be true
from this broken Hill
I will sing to you
from this broken Hill
all your praises they shall ring
If it be your will
His body is gone
But back here on the lawn
His spirit continues to drool
Like a bird on the wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free
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.
And when He knew for certain
Only drowning men could see Him
He said, “All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them.”
Like a bird, on a wire,
like a drunk,
in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my own way to be free.
Love”s the only enginge of survival
But I know what is wrong,
and I know what is right,
and I die for the truth
in my secret life.
… and she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China,
and just when you mean to tell her that you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength, and she lets the river answer that you’ve always been her lover…
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I’d like to tell my story
Before I turn into gold
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.
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
It is in love that we are made,
in love we disappear…
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch
I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I’ll stand before the Lord of Song
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