11 Novembre 2016 : Leonard Cohen R.I.P. (les 20 titres de Cohen qui m'ont construit puis aidé à vivre)

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"And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind.." : la Femme, inconnue, incompréhensible, mais compagne absolue...

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"Les Allemands étaient chez moi, ils m'ont dit résigne toi, mais je n'ai pas pu, j'ai repris mon arme" : la nécessité du combat.

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"I stepped into an Avalanche, it covered up my soul" : rester soi même quand la vie vous engloutit...

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"And you treated my woman to a flake of your life,
And when she came back she was nobody's wife" : amitié, trahison, pardon, fidélité...

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"I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye. Myself I long for love and light,
But must it come so cruel, and oh so bright" : consumer celle qu'on aime pour pouvoir posséder sa sainteté...

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" Well I live here with a woman and a child, The situation makes me kind of nervous. Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love", I call it service." L'amour est une guerre... d'ailleurs les derniers mots de Cohen auront été pour réclamer un traité...

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"You told me again you preferred handsome men, But for me you would make an exception." : tendres souvenirs et désolation après une rencontre éphémère...

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"He said, "I locked you in this body, I meant it as a kind of trial
You can use it for a weapon Or to make some woman smile" : affres de la laideur et de la séduction...

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"One by one, the guests arrive, The guests are coming through, The open-hearted many, The broken-hearted few, And no one knows where the night is going..." : vivre est une errance où il est vain de chercher un sens...

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"Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin, Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in..." : l'amour (pour toute une vie) comme refuge...

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"She tied you To a kitchen chair, She broke your throne, and she cut your hair, And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah" : le sexe comme (seule ?) preuve de l'existence du divin...

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"Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win, You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline, How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin, First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin..." : géniale intuition du djihadisme moderne...

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"If you want a father for your child, Or only want to walk with me a while Across the sand, I'm your man..." : tout promettre pour ne pas perdre l'aimée... même si l'on sait à l'avance que ça ne sert à rien...

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"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" : la perte du sens (humain, religieux, social) dans le monde moderne...

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"I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet, But I hear him coughing all night long, A hundred floors above me In the Tower of Song" : le talent (artistique) et le succès n'aident pas à mieux vivre, ni bien sûr vieillir...

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"Give me crack and anal sex, Take the only tree that's left, And stuff it up the hole In your culture" : no future !

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"I love to speak with Leonard
He’s a sportsman and a shepherd, He’s a lazy bastard Living in a suit. But he does say what I tell him, Even though it isn’t welcome, He just doesn't have the freedom To refuse" : qui parle à travers l'artiste et à quoi cela sert-il ?

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"This was your heart, This swarm of flies, This was once your mouth, This bowl of lies. You serve them well, I’m not surprised, You’re of their kin, You’re of their kind" : il y a bien eu une guerre, terrible, et le Mal a gagné, et l'histoire a été réécrite...

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" They're lining up the prisoners And the guards are taking aim. I struggled with some demons, They were middle class and tame, I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim" : le combat de la vie a été un échec...

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"Traveling light, It's au revoir, My once so bright, my fallen star, I'm running late, they'll close the bar, I used to play one mean guitar" : un adieu...