![]() ![]() ![]() Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. ![]() Hallelujah!: You Can Stream Every Leonard Cohen Album in a 22-Hour Chronological Playlist (1967-2016) ![]() How Leonard Cohen & David Bowie Faced Death Through Their Art: A Look at Their Final Albums Leonard Cohen’s Last Work, The Flame Gets Published: Discover His Final Poems, Drawings, Lyrics & More Hear Leonard Cohen’s Final Interview: Recorded by David Remnick of The New Yorker In the austerities of the monastery, Cohen discovered “a voluptuous sense of economy that you can’t find anywhere else,” a daily practice “necessary to open the heart to the fact that you’re not alone,” even if, as he says wryly in “The Goal,” above-the first release from Thanks for the Dance-you “can’t stop the rain, can’t stop the snow.” Verse 1 The sea so deep and blind The sun, the wild regret The club, the wheel, the mind, O love, arent you tired yet Accords et paroles Famous Blue. I was never able to use it.” He learned how to disassociate and quarantine himself. By and large, I didn’t have what it took to really enjoy my success, or my celebrity. “Maybe this whole activity,” the formal practice of Zen, “is a response to a sense of despair that I’ve always had…. Cohen talks about his journey into the monastery in the interview further up. ![]()
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