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Leonard Norman Cohen was born on the 21st of september 1934 to a canadian family. He is a song writer,poet,novelist and a musician. His art work often explores religion, politics,sexuality,isolation and personal relationships.

His musical genres include folk,folk rock,pop rock,rock and spoken word.
Some of his musical instruments for composing his tracks include vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer and keyboards. With Columbia as the label and associated by Sharon Robinson, and Jennifer.
His albums include: field commander 2001, the best of leonard cohen 1975, live 1994, the essential leonard cohen 2002, live songs 1973, death of a ladie's man 1977, songs from the road 2010, skin for the old ceremony 1974, recent songs 1979, dear heather 2004, live in london 2009, songs from a room 1969, the new songs 2001, various positions 1984, the future 1992, songs of love and hate 1970, I'm your man 1988, old ideas 2012, songs of leonard cohen 1967.

List of Leonard Cohen Lyrics from the album "Old Ideas"

1. Going Home
2. Amen
3. Show Me The Place
4. The Darkness
5. Anyhow
6. Crazy To Love You
7. Come Healing
8. Banjo
9. Lullaby
10.Different Sides

Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Leonard cohen - Old Ideas album

" 1. Show Me The Place"
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place where my head is bend and low
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains, a lot of chains
Like a spade
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began

" 2. Different Sides"
We find ourselves on different sides
Of a line nobody drew
Though it all may be one in the higher eye
Down here where we live it is two
I to my side call the meek and the mild
You to your side call the Word
By virtue of suffering I claim to have won
You claim to have never been heard
Both of us say there are laws to obey
But frankly I don’t like your tone
You want to change the way I make love
I want to leave it alone
The pull of the moon, the thrust of the sun
And thus the ocean is crossed
The waters are blessed while a shadowy guest
Kindles a light for the lost
Both of us say there are laws to obey
But frankly I don’t like your tone
You want to change the way I make love
I want to leave it alone
Down in the valley the famine goes on
The famine up on the hill
I say that you shouldn’t, you couldn’t, you can’t
You say that you must and you will
Both of us say there are laws to obey
But frankly I don’t like your tone
You want to change the way I make love
I want to leave it alone
You want to live where the suffering is
I want to get out of town
C’mon baby give me a kiss
Stop writing everything down
Both of us say there are laws to obey
Yeah, but frankly I don’t like your tone
You want to change the way I make love
I want to leave it alone
Both of us say there are laws to obey
But frankly I don’t like your tone
You want to change the way I make love
I want to leave it alone
" 3. Lullaby"
Sleep baby sleep
The day’s on the run
The wind in the trees
Is talking in tongues
If your heart is torn
I don’t wonder why
If the night is long
Here’s my lullaby
Here’s my lullaby
Well the mouse ate the crumb
Then the cat ate the crust
Now they’ve fallen in love
They’re talking in tongues
If your heart is torn
I don’t wonder why
If the night is long
Here’s my lullaby
Here’s my lullaby
Sleep baby sleep
There’s a morning to come
The wind in the trees
They’re talking in tongues
If your heart is torn
I don’t wonder why
If the night is long
Here’s my lullaby
Here’s my lullaby

" 4. Banjo"
There’s something that I’m watching
Means a lot to me
It’s a broken banjo bobbing
On the dark infested sea
Don’t know how it got there
Maybe taken by the wave
Off of someone’s shoulder
Or out of someone’s grave
It’s coming for me darling
No matter where I go
Its duty is to harm me
My duty is to know
There’s something that I’m watching
Means a lot to me
It’s a broken banjo bobbing
On the dark infested sea

" 5. Crazy To Love You"
Had to go crazy to love you
Had to go down to the pit
Had to do time in the tower
Begging my crazy to quit
Had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
Her braids and her blouse all undone
Sometimes I’d head for the highway
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie
But crazy has places to hide in
That are deeper than any goodbye
Had to go crazy to love you
Had to let everything fall
Had to be people I hated
Had to be no one at all
I’m tired of choosing desire
I been saved by a blessed fatigue
The gates of commitment unwired
And nobody trying to leave
Sometimes I’d head for the highway
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie
But crazy has places to hide in
That are deeper than any goodbye
Had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
Her braids and her blouse all undone
" 7. Come Healing"
O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow
The splinters that you carry
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace
O solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind
O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart
O troubled dust concealing
An undivided love
The Heart beneath is teaching
To the broken Heart above
O let the heavens falter
And let the earth proclaim:
Come healing of the Altar
Come healing of the Name
O longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O longing of the arteries
To purify the blood
And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb
O let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

Albums (amazon top rated)

various positions 1984

the future 1992

the new songs 2001

songs of leonard cohen 1967

songs of love and hate 1970

the best of leonard cohen 1975

the essential leonard cohen 2002

live songs 1973

the old ceremony 1974

old ideas 2012

recent songs 1979

songs from a room 1969

songs from the road 2010

field commander cohen 2001

I'm your man 1988

live in london 2009

dear heather 2004

death of a ladie's man 1977

live 1994

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