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Day 08. A song that you know all the words to.
Leonard Cohen - Master song
Lyrics have always been just as important to me as the music itself. And when my Dad made me listen to Leonard Cohen ('You ~will~ like this.') it was the words that captivated me. This song is still one of my all time favourites. It's also one of the reasons I can't understand why people think of him as dour and miserable - he has a wonderfully bitter and twisted sense of humour, which runs right through this song. I'm not sure I could stand up and recite the lyrics. But the words... the words I know off by heart.
(Also quite a sweet piece of family history. Looking through all the old albums in the attic, it was clear that my parents had quite disparate music tastes. Dad had all the weirder, heavier experimental stuff, Mum had the pop and disco, and they met in the middle with a matching set of Beatles albums. But there were also two copies of 'Songs of Leonard Cohen', because Mum bought one when they first met and she was trying to impress Dad. To this day, she can still recite Suzanne perfectly.)
Leonard Cohen - Master song
Lyrics have always been just as important to me as the music itself. And when my Dad made me listen to Leonard Cohen ('You ~will~ like this.') it was the words that captivated me. This song is still one of my all time favourites. It's also one of the reasons I can't understand why people think of him as dour and miserable - he has a wonderfully bitter and twisted sense of humour, which runs right through this song. I'm not sure I could stand up and recite the lyrics. But the words... the words I know off by heart.
(Also quite a sweet piece of family history. Looking through all the old albums in the attic, it was clear that my parents had quite disparate music tastes. Dad had all the weirder, heavier experimental stuff, Mum had the pop and disco, and they met in the middle with a matching set of Beatles albums. But there were also two copies of 'Songs of Leonard Cohen', because Mum bought one when they first met and she was trying to impress Dad. To this day, she can still recite Suzanne perfectly.)
