que isto seja esquecido

Leonard Cohen: 19 de Julho em Lisboa

Leonard Cohen: e Portugal aqui tão perto…

As you get older, you get less willing to buy the latest version of reality.
Leonard Cohen

(…)

You who wish to conquer pain,
you must learn what makes me kind;
the crumbs of love that you offer me,
they’re the crumbs I’ve left behind.
Your pain is no credential here,
it’s just the shadow, shadow of my wound.

I have begun to long for you,
I who have no greed;
I have begun to ask for you,
I who have no need.
You say you’ve gone away from me,
but I can feel you when you breathe.

(Leonard Cohen, Avalanche)

Não fugir ao essencial. O melhor é começar por isto que escrevi há pouco mais de um ano. Ali juntei, a propósito do que faz a diferença, Leonard Cohen e Jennifer Warnes. O que faz a diferença move-nos, sempre. São quase sempre as pessoas. Quase sempre. Os caminhos esquecemos e, não sabendo por onde passei, sei que comecei aqui e parei no que nos move. A música. Todo o caminho faz diferença. Leonard Cohen e Jennifer Warnes, juntos.

3 of us gathered at the studio to enjoy both versions to discover that though they recorded separate versions, they recorded in the same key at the same time….After a session with Adobe Audition 1.5 we created a new mixdown track of the song that until now has never been heard…it is both enveloping and haunting…the best of Leonard and Jennifer…the video was finally produced at 4:00 in the morning

who by fire, who by water
who in the sunshine, who in the night time
who by high ordeal, who by common trial
who in your merry merry month of may
who by very slow decay
who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate
who in these realms of love, who by something blunt
who by avalanche, who by powder
who for his greed, who for his hunger
who by brave assent, who by accident
who in solitude, who in this mirror
who by his lady’s command, who by his own hand
who in mortal chains, who in power

Como se não fosse para nós. who shall I say is calling? Deixando de passar na vida sem pensar.

* Leonard Cohen

O problema do celibato é que por vezes requer um pacto com o Diabo.

Leonard Cohen para o fim de semana.

AIN’T NO CURE FOR LOVE
(from the album ‘I’M YOUR MAN’)

I loved you for a long, long time
I know this love is real
It don’t matter how it all went wrong
That don’t change the way I feel
And I can’t believe that time’s
Gonna heal this wound I’m speaking of
There ain’t no cure,
There ain’t no cure,
There ain’t no cure for love.

There ain’t no cure for love
There ain’t no cure for love
All the rocket ships are climbing through the sky
The holy books are open wide
The doctors working day and night
But they’ll never ever find that cure,
That cure for love

Leonard Cohen

Profecia
First we take Manathann,

Then we take Berlin.

[abusivamente copiado do Sesimbra e Ventos, porque Leonard Cohen não nos pode passar ao lado.]

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen

não ouve Leonard Cohen

… says: já ouvistes sóce?
Tiago says: é aquilo que os homens a sério ouvem?
… says: ya
… says: já ouviste
… says: ?
Tiago says: ja
Tiago says: gostei mais de machine head
… says: é?
… says: lamb of God não?
(…)
… says: se tu fores a uma serração ou dentro de um navio só se houve musica desta
Tiago says: homens a sério!
… says: machos
… says: agora se fores a um cabeleireiro unisexo ouves lá dessas cenas leonard cohen e jennifer lopez