I have loved Leonard Cohen since the age of 12 in 66, this song always makes me feel that it is so cold outside, even in the height of summer, such beauty.
BackatchababyIsMe(July 8, 2009 at 8:00 pm)
People have such odd ideas about Leonard Cohen! I always thought "to go clear" meant "clear off the face of the planet" or "unable to be seen" as in suicide. Why else would someone give a friend a lock of hair, a age old symbol of mourning, in that context? Scientology? No way. Also Leonard Cohen was not actually a Buddhist. He is a spiritual person with a focus on Christianity and Judaism. Listen to Terry Gross of Fresh Air interview him .
IDIJOT(July 8, 2009 at 4:15 pm)
It is in "The Captain" from the album "Various Positions". The lines are"Whatever makes a soldier sadWill make a killer smile"
peter2156(July 7, 2009 at 2:30 pm)
In what song did he use the line -What ever makes a soldier cry , makes a killer smile?
tamarasaralynn(July 6, 2009 at 11:27 pm)
It is so amazing that Cohan could be unsatisfied with song lyrics that are soul-shatteringly on point to so many of us. I guess art is truly for the artist.
antologos4(July 6, 2009 at 2:29 am)
Para ti esta noche, Ana.
AdinaCohen29(July 4, 2009 at 8:00 am)
....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. It was a song I've never been satisfied with. It's not that I've resisted an impressionistic approach to songwriting, but I've never felt that this one, that I really nailed the lyric. I'm ready to concede something to the mystery, but secretly I've always felt that there was something about the song that was unclear.
AdinaCohen29(July 4, 2009 at 7:59 am)
LC said: The trouble with that song is that I've forgotten the actual triangle. Whether it was my own...of course. 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.
bezoris2(July 1, 2009 at 9:53 pm)
Right on... Cohen was deep into Scientology at this point.He either had an affair or was the cuckold of one, if you believe this song or his novel of the same period "Beautiful Losers".He claims "hazy" recollections of this time period and nothing had been determined...
jessegilmour1(June 30, 2009 at 9:12 am)
It's a reference to scientology, you're wrong, sorry.
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