Tack Leonard Cohen

Femtio år är en lång tid i en människas liv. Femtio år följdes jag av Leonard Cohens musik, poesi, konst. Nu är han borta. Tack och lov kan jag lyssna till hans senaste och sista skiva. Gör det ni också. Hineni, hineni.

Leonard Cohen

You want it darker 

Cohen's sparse, spoken-word delivery is paired with Montreal’s Cantor Gideon Zelermyer and the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue Choir

If you are the dealer

Let me out of the game

If you are the healer

I'm broken and lame

If thine is the glory

Mine must be the shame

You want it darker

We kill the flame

Magnified, sanctified

Be the holy name

Feel the fire, crucified

In the human frame

A million candles burning

For the help that never came

You want it darker

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my lord

There's a lover in the story

But the story's still the same

There's a lullaby for suffering

And a paradox to blame

But it's written in the scriptures

And it's not some idol claim

You want it darker

We killed the flame

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

You want it darker

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my lord

Magnified, sanctified

Be the holy name

Feel the fire, crucified

In the human frame

A million candles burning

For the love that never came

You want it darker

We killed the flame

If you are the dealer

Let me out of the game

If you are the healer

I'm broken and lame

If thine is the glory

Mine must be the shame

You want it darker

We kill the flame

Hineni, hineni

Hineni, hineni

I'm ready, my lord

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