suzanne

[mealltach]

Suzanne takes you down to the place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You want to spend the night beside her
And you know she's half crazy
That's why you want to be there
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
She gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
You've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
You want to travel blind
And you know she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From a lonely wooden tower
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"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
You want to travel blind
And you know he will find you
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind
Suzanne takes your hand now
She leads you to the river
She's wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Amidst the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
You want to travel blind
And you know she will find you
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind
Leonard is wonderful.

 

[mealltach]

^^^^^

a fellow redhead, AND one with great taste in....well, leonard!!! heheee. YAY! this makes me happy.

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
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows
And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows
And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows

 

[Furnace]

My favorite Leonard Cohen song. It reminds me of a sunflower.
Hallelujah
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew her
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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Still post-rockin' in a free world

 

[mealltach]

drea: i absolutely love famous blue raincoat. thank you..................and you, i would assume, have heard tori amos's cover of it?!!!
if you love tori like i do, it's just gorgeous! tori doing leonard!
furnace:

!!!!!! i love the way you described hallelujah!! fabulous....
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You thought that it could never happen
to all the people that you became,
your body lost in legend, the beast so very tame.
But here, right here,
between the birthmark and the stain,
between the ocean and your open vein,
between the snowman and the rain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.
The women in your scrapbook
whom you still praise and blame,
you say they chained you to your fingernails
and you climb the halls of fame.
Oh but here, right here,
between the peanuts and the cage,
between the darkness and the stage,
between the hour and the age,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.
Shouldering your loneliness
like a gun that you will not learn to aim,
you stumble into this movie house,
then you climb, you climb into the frame.
Yes, and here, right here
between the moonlight and the lane,
between the tunnel and the train,
between the victim and his stain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.
I leave the lady meditating
on the very love which I, I do not wish to claim,
I journey down the hundred steps,
but the street is still the very same.
And here, right here,
between the dancer and his cane,
between the sailboat and the drain,
between the newsreel and your tiny pain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.
Where are you, Judy, where are you, Anne?
Where are the paths your heroes came?
Wondering out loud as the bandage pulls away,
was I, was I only limping, was I really lame?
Oh here, come over here,
between the windmill and the grain,
between the sundial and the chain,
between the traitor and her pain,
once again, once again,
love calls you by your name.

 

[femmme fatal]

leonard rules!!! i used to only know his early work... i had no idea that song from NBK was him!
my fave:
So Long Marianne
Come over to the window my little darling
I'd like to try and read your palm
I used to think i was some sort of gypsy boy
Before i let you take me home.
So long, Marianne, it's time we began
to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Well, you know that i love to live with you
But you make me forget so very much
I forget to pray for the angels
And then the angels forget to pray for us.
Chorus
We met when we were almost young
Deep n the green lilac park
You held onto me like i was a crucifix
As we went kneeling through the dark.
Chorus
Your letters they all say that you're beside me now
Then why do i feel alone?
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web
Is fastening my ankle to a stone.
Chorus
For now i need your hidden love
I'm cold as a new razor blade
You left me when i told you i was curious
I never said that i was brave.
Chorus
Oh, you are really such a pretty one
I see you've gone and changed your name again
And just when i climbed this whole mountainside
To wash my eyelids in the rain
Chorus
damn, that man writes long songs!
he's from montreal too

aj the femme
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the extra M is for MmmMmmmm
"Hell hath no fury like that of a woman scorned"
Be Good!!!

 

[mealltach]

drea!!!!!!!!
i wanna marry you and bear your little 'uns. except, well, i cannot. i fear i have the improper gonads.

actually, heck, let's just both marry leonard! that sounds like fun to me. *mrrrrooooooowrrrrr!!!!*
anyone else who wants in, we will be accepting applications. femmme gets in by default because she's canadian, intelligent, and intriguingly beautiful (i'm a (currently somewhat intoxicated)lurker, can you tell?)
weeeeeeeeeeee!
oh god. shouldn't post when likje this.