Leonard Cohen

I was fortunate to catch a Leonard Cohen concert in Brisbane almost five years ago. The poet-artist died two years ago, but his voice was not just for his or any generation, it is for all time.

Here's a playlist of Leonard Cohen songs, or click on a particular song below:

1. Suzanne

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river.

2. Sisters of Mercy

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

3. So Long, Marianne

4. Bird on the Wire.
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. 

5. Tonight Will Be Fine

6. Famous Blue Raincoat

7. Chelsea Hotel #2

And clenching your fist for the ones like us who are oppressed by the figures of beauty, you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind, we are ugly but we have the music."

8. Lover Lover Lover

9. Who by Fire

To the leaders of the left, and the leaders of the right, I sing... I sing for everyone. My song has no flag, my song has no party. Leonard Cohen introducing "Who by Fire."

10. Take This Longing

11. Dance Me to the End of Love

12. Coming Back to You

13. 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?

...

But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya

14. If It Be Your Will

15. First We Take Manhattan 

16. Ain't No Cure for Love

17. Everybody Knows

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 

18. I'm Your Man 

19. Take This Waltz

20. Tower of Song

But you'll be hearing from me, baby, long after I'm gone.
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower Of Song 

21. The Future

22. Waiting for the Miracle

23. Anthem

There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

24. Democracy

25. In My Secret Life 

I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie.
I do what I have to do to get by.
But I know what is wrong and I know what is right,
and I'd die for the truth in my secret life. 

26. A Thousand Kisses Deep 

27. By the Rivers Dark

28. Alexandra Leaving 

29. The Stranger Song.

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender. 

30. Ballad of the absent mare 

31. You Want It Darker 

32. Closing Time