Happy New Year.

[manorly_wayne]

"Dance Me To The End Of Love"
Leonard Cohen - performed by Madeleine Peyroux

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
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me

Comments

[haspepperspray]

Happy New Year, Bruce.

[manorly_wayne]

Yes.
Happy New Year, Pepper.

[haspepperspray]

Have you left for London yet?

[manorly_wayne]

I don't recall telling you about that.

[lorna]

That's a nice song.

Happy New Year, Bruce.

[manorly_wayne]

Happy New Year, Kiddo.

I'm not sure it's a nice song.

It's a beautiful song, but it's a sad one and it's not about the nice things in the world, though it is about love.

Cohen wrote it inspired by stories of the musicians forced to play their violins in the death camps during the holocaust.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin

They played their music knowing people were being murdered and burnt and knowing they'd be next.

[lorna]

Yes, it's a beautiful song. Like a lot of his songs there's a haunting feel to it. I'm not very familiar with the version you've posted.

[manorly_wayne]

I don't think Cohen wrote a nice song in his life. I think he was well aware life is many things but never nice. Nice-ness is something the rest of us impose on it in our desperation.

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

The one thing you can't accuse Cohen of is being nice. He understands life, though.

She's a jazz singer. I guess she's a little out of your demographic.