This may be the single most beautiful song ever written.

@daveysaturn7232

3 жыл бұрын

yup. i think it is.

@mursalinmosaddeque8999

3 жыл бұрын

Amen.

@cb25

3 жыл бұрын

It shouldn’t be but it is...somehow it is 😭

@cb25

3 жыл бұрын

The Eskimo verse is particularly mind blowing

@Jamie-pm7we

3 жыл бұрын

"oh please let me come into the storm"

I used to sing this song as lullaby to my daughter when she was an infant. She's now 8 (going on 16...). But she still occasionally ask me to sing her "the mosquito" song before bed.

@Userrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.r

2 жыл бұрын

That's so sweet

him screaming in a strained voice at the end is always unexpectedly delightful to hear 😊

First fell in love with this song in 1976, aged 16. Finally saw Mr. Cohen live in Amsterdam, July 11 2008. Myself and 13,000 dedicated fans in the old gas works area. A dark night with light rain, however, we were all bathed in sunlight all through his 24 songs he performed. A night never to be forgotten. RIP Leonard; what a difference you made to this world. God bless.

@geraldinecorrigan2639

2 жыл бұрын

Love this l got to see him in his late comeback concerts. It was simply stunning to watch him on stage, his voice beautiful, and abundance off energy for a man of his age, very memorable never to be forgotten. I love his work and will never tire off listening to him sing.🎶🙂🎶🙏

@paulvinkenoog8587

6 ай бұрын

I'm from Amsterdam and I still regret not going there that night :-(

In my language there is a half-ironic expression, meaning sentimental mood: “To hug and to cry”. That’s what I can’t help to this song.

@oregano6008

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, would you be willing to share the word?

We will never stop listening. RIP.

It was in 1967 when I heard this song and I was hooked immediately. Thank you dear Leonard for all those beautiful words all through the years

@sailentpredato5218

5 жыл бұрын

You mena you heard it on the very last days of 1967? when this song came out, i don`t believe you.

@iaackib426

3 жыл бұрын

How old are you?

@deirdreoflaherty1954

3 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful haunting song which I'm addicted to, some funny parts of this song which only a brilliant mind can write and sing.

@j.477

Жыл бұрын

Yob 66,, more than a generation later, ditto ...

@fredrickroll06

2 ай бұрын

@@sailentpredato5218 I also have in memory that I bought this album in 1967. It was the ONLY time that I bought a non-classical album without having heard anything on it beforehand. But I had seen his "Flowers for Hitler" in a glass case in the University of Toronto library the previous year and wanted to know, "What kind of person is THIS?" I also was immediately hooked on this song - being desperately unhappy in love at the time, when I was 22 - and I thought that such an abstruse text with such a melancholy mood could only have been written especially for me, no one else would buy it - and then it was and remains a worldwide success!

One word....Masterpiece

The most beautiful song in the world? No, the most beautiful song in the universe.

Goodbye my old friend who taught me so much.

I was a kid in school when I first heard this. It still has the same effect all these years later. Pure genius ....

No one can write like this. No one.

@BeeTheBird

Жыл бұрын

This comment 💯

lyrics: I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, But the room just filled up with mosquitoes, they heard that my body was free Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night and I put it in your little shoe And then I confess that I tortured the dress that you wore for the world to look through I showed my heart to the doctor. He said I'd just have to quit Then he wrote himself a prescription, your name was mentioned in it Then he locked himself in a library shelf with the details of our honeymoon And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse and his practice is all in a ruin I heard of a saint who had loved you, I studied all night in his school He taught that the duty of lovers is to tarnish the golden rule And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure he drowned himself in the pool His body is gone but back here on the lawn his spirit continues to drool An Eskimo showed me a movie he'd recently taken of you The poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue I suppose that he froze when the wind tore off your clothes And I guess he just never got warm, but you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice Oh please let me come into the storm

That ending gets me every time

People are saying of listening this song for decades and here I am, just 2 decades old,but got hooked to this voice

@chericarpenter-lundstrom6897

3 күн бұрын

I first heard him in 1967. I watched him mature and grew with him. Learned to accept my own failings by watching him accept his.

We miss you, teacher.

I listened to Songs of Leonard Cohen and Songs of love and hate as a teenager, here I am some 40 years later still listening and loving the genius of Leonard Cohen.

Heart wrenching song, but so beautiful.

Never heard this one before. One of his best.cant believe i hadnt heard it

@vikaschenna3274

Жыл бұрын

can you recommend a few?

Absolutely blows my mind no matter how many times I listen

I don't need a reminder to listen to this, my mind goes back over and over humbbleing the melodies of Leonard.

Am auzit prima data această melodie în august 1973 în tabăra scolară de la Homorod România,aveam 17 ani pe o bandă de magnetofon ,mulțumesc Leonard.

The ending...with those screams. 🖤

This is undoubtedly the best love song of all time

Of, I miss him so much !

Those screamings at the end :( Feels like crying :'(

I lit a thin green candle To make you jealous of me But the room just filled up with mosquitoes They heard that my body was free Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night And I put it in your little shoe And then I confess that I tortured the dress That you wore for the world to look through I showed my heart to the doctor He said I'd just have to quit Then he wrote himself a prescription And your name was mentioned in it Then he locked himself in a library shelf With the details of our honeymoon And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse And his practice is all in a ruin I heard of a saint who had loved you So I studied all night in his school He taught that the duty of lovers Is to tarnish the golden rule And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure He drowned himself in the pool His body is gone but back here on the lawn His spirit continues to drool An Eskimo showed me a movie He'd recently taken of you The poor man could hardly stop shivering His lips and his fingers were blue I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes And I guess he just never got warm But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice Oh please, let me come into the storm

THIS SONG: Many of you wonder about its meaning, the lyrics, who it is for and the way it ends, in anguish. The answer to all of these questions is one very particular, challenging, intellectual, darkly poetic and at the time, ravishingly beautiful woman: NICO. Leonard Cohen was absolutely entranced by her, in awe of everything about her including her very distant aloofness, prolonged silences, her statuesque beauty, the depths of her voice. SHE, however, wanted no ideas or ideals of romance with him. Her taste in men was rather definite- she preferred men with an Edge to their personas. Men like Alain Delon, the French Cinema Star. He didn't marry her, but he's the father to her only child, Christian Aaron "Ari" Boulogne. There's Bob Dylan; and Brian Jones, who was quite involved with her and helped her get her first record contract. He played lead guitar on her 1965 debut single I'm Not Sayin. There's Jimmy Page, who cowrote, along with Andrew Loog Oldham, that record's B-Side- The Last Mile- and Page also produced the track, arranged and conducted the music- and got additional extra guitar notes courtesy of Mr. Jones. It was Brian Jones who first brought Nico to Andy Warhol's Factory in Union Square, and Warhol saw her as a Force Majeure. It was Warhol who decided, Nico should work with his Factory band, The Velvet Underground. Warhol put her in his films, struck by her otherwoldly presence and stunning beauty. In 1967, Brian Jones and Nico drifted through the crowds during the Monterrey International Pop Music Festival. There's Lou Reed, who wrote Femme Fatale, All Tomorrow's Parties, and I'll Be Your Mirror, for her. There's Jim Morrison- in more ways than you can imagine or maybe you can; Jackson Brown, who wrote These Days for her, John Cale, who evidently appreciated her tenure with The Velvet Underground so much, he went on to arrange and play diverse instruments for her 1968 album, The Marble Index. There's James Osterberg, better known as Iggy Pop, who is prominently featured in Nico's music film Evening Of Light- which is the final track on The Marble Index. In 1970, John Cale produced, arranged and played diverse instruments for her third release, Desert Shore. The last track on side 1, Le Petit Chevalier, is sung by Nico's son, Ari. In 1974, Cale produced, arranged and played almost every instrument, while collaborating with Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music, also Brian Eno, for Nico's album The End. On side 1, track 3, You Forget To Answer is Nico's ode to Jim Morrison. On side 2, track 2, The End, is her version of The Doors song. In 1978, Siouxsie & The Banshees were strong supporters of Nico, asking her to open for them on tour. The equally dark Goth band, Bauhaus, also admired Nico, and Yes, she performed live with them on stage. Patti Smith was a great admirer of Nico. When Nico's harmonium was stolen in Paris, Patti Smith bought it back from a Parisian shop, and presented it to her. With emotional gratitude, Nico offered to repay her, but Smith politely refused, telling her it's a gift- which reduced Nico to tears. In 1982, Nico collaborated with The Invisible Girls, a trio featuring Martin Hannett- producer for Joy Division, New Order, The Names, and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Paul Burgess of The Icicle Works; and Steve Hopkins, who worked with the Punk poet, John Cooper Clarke, and Morrissey. Together, Hannett, Hopkins and Burgess performed all instrumentation for Nico's glacial record, Procession. The stark, rather frightful cover gives Nico top billing, with The Invisible Girls in deliberately, almost invisible lettering at the bottom of the record. Later, Nico and John Cooper Clarke were living together, but not as lovers. Two moody, intense individuals with mutual interests, including heroin. In 1984, John Cooper Clarke and Nico toured together. AND, there's David Bowie- who wrote Heroes, for HER. I know that detail personally because I met Nico in 1979, and we conversed for almost an hour. I was 24 at the time, completely struck by her imperious majesty. As our conversation came to a close, she took my black Sharpie and signed the covers of Chelsea Girl and Desert Shore, for me. In 1985, John Cale produced Nico's final studio album, Camera Obscura. PLUS, there's Marc Almond, formerly of the English early Eighties duo, Soft Cell. As a solo artist, he wrote a song for her and ask her to sing on it: Your Kisses Burn, from his fourth album The Stars We Are, released in 1988. Her presence, her voice in this song is like frozen ice palisades of Antarctica. Your Kisses Burn was Nico's last recorded studio performance. I met Marc Almond in 1988, along with his manager, and heard all the details about the song, and Nico as its inspiration. In 2002, Marianne Faithfull, someone else I was fortunate enough to meet in the 1990's, released her 16th album, Kissin Time. Track 6 on the album is Song For Nico, cowritten by Dave Stewart, musician, songwriter, producer and one half of Eurythmics. Stewart performs on this track. He and Marianne Faithfull are steadfast admirers of Nico. But Nico never, ever held any interest in Leonard Cohen. Not even in the early days of her singing career, in 1962, when she sang at The Blue Angel in New York City's Greenwich Village. A young Leonard Cohen was there to see her perform, in addition to a young, promising folk singer named Bob Dylan. They were equally enchanted by her, but Nico definitely showed no romantic or primal, sexual desires for Leonard. Years later, he composed One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong. This is his song for Nico, The Eternal Queen of Goth, Love Unobtainable, and Music Of The Night.

@Tobikoyum7

3 жыл бұрын

Iggy Stooge? You mean iggy Pop of the Stooges? Or is Iggy Stooge some specific moniker everyone should know?

@joemacpherson1664

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tobikoyum7 I'll explain. James Osterberg was often referred to as Iggy Stooge, before a second unofficial name change to Iggy Pop. In case you're wondering, the name Iggy was originally given to Osterberg's pet iguana, in the 1960's. Nico met The Stooges in 1968. She became a mentor and muse for Iggy. In 1968, her second album, The Marble Index was released on Elektra Records. John Cale was the producer. He also composed and arranged each track, and played every featured instrument except the harmonium, performed by Nico. Coincidentally, in 1969, Cale produced The Stooges debut album on Elektra Records. For this recording, Cale handled the sleigh bells for track 2, I Wanna Be Your Dog, and he played the viola on track 3, We Will Fall.

@Tobikoyum7

3 жыл бұрын

@@joemacpherson1664 thank you for clarifying, I thought it was a typo but always enjoy learning more about the one and only Iggy.

@mathiasrasmussen3678

3 жыл бұрын

The thing with bowie is not true though. He wrote heroes about his producer Tony Visconti and Visconti's girlfriend who were meeting up by the Berlin wall, kissing and stuff, under the recordings of the album. Bowie could see them from his window and got inspired by their love story. He's said that himself in interviews, and the story has been confrimed by Tony Visconti as well.

@mingulay29

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for that Joe. Fascinating. More should be written about Nico, the Marlene Dietrich of her era.

Love this music. So beautiful. Miss u, Cohen!

Then, now, forever...

The grand finale to a Five Star album. The strongest love song ever written because we all have felt this surrender to love, stronger than our logical mind and stronger than Faith. So despite everything that she is capable of, and the inevitable destruction that awaits him . . . he still pleads: ' ' You stand there so nice . . . in your blizzard of ice, Oh please let me come into the storm.' '

An Amazing Man Who Will Never Be Forgotten . We Love You So Much Leonard .

My Gen Z children may not appreciate the wit and poetry of the lyrics but they ll sure be amazed by the pathos of Cohen's screaming at the end...all for a love unfulfilled😅

forever engraved, i know the lyrics are posted but! a subtle heartbreak, those painful voices at the end that fade out and come back, like haunting ghosts of winter (i always imagined it was the voices of eskimo man horrified by the cold), and the scenery! the eskimo man, the saint who drowned himself in the pool and what he thought was the duty of lovers (to tarnish the golden rule, did he died by not obeying the duty or did he die because he did - tarnish the golden rule, what is the golden rule!?), the doctor who gives him a prescription with her name - it's full of lust for love but both the (and i don't mean to get pretentious here) eternal suffering and heartache of people, it hurts how beautiful it is but also makes me shiver with whole new specter of emotions where i'm just so glad to be alive, and all the banality is gone and even though the hurt is still there, since of course i have my projections on these words and music, leonard's wise, ancient, heartbroken and gentle voice, my past and present lovers and ruined relationships, it's still a hurt and sadness that makes me recognize the joyful, beautiful sides of love and life that you can treasure and hold close to your heart. it's amazing when you feel a surge of empathy through a song full of pain and hurt! he really was in love with nico i see! well, i feel it! I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me But the room just filled up with mosquitos They heard that my body was free Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night And I put it in your little shoe And then I confess that I tortured the dress That you wore for the world to look through I showed my heart to the doctor: he said I just have to quit Then he wrote himself a perscription And your name was mentioned in it! Then he locked himself in a library shelf With the details of our honeymoon And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse And his practice is all in a ruin I heard of a saint who had loved you So I studied all night in his school He taught that the duty of lovers Is to tarnish the golden rule And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure He drowned himself in the pool His body is gone but back here on the lawn His spirit continues to drool An Eskimo showed me a movie He'd recently taken of you The poor man could hardly stop shivering His lips and his fingers were blue I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes And I guess he just never got warm But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice Oh please let me come into the storm

one of the most beautiful songs. Elizabethan troubadours would have admired it. A master at his craft.

Favorite Leonard Cohen song ❤❤❤

I discovered this masterpiece in 2016 . But started loving it last year after i heard the full song once.. I listen to it every single day . I just can’t get enough of it

It’s all about what’s behind the words.

@jesuismax5519

2 жыл бұрын

This must be the wrongest thing you can say about poetry.

@noisepollution6761

Жыл бұрын

urgency designs honeymoon 🌜

I have purchased this very album on many different formats over the last four decades because I wear them out! Now here I go again picking up the Vinyl!

I love Leonardo Cohen ❤️

This is quite a humorous song but those last few lines, damn!

I always think of this song when I light my little green candle

My favorite song of all time.

My Nan absolutely loathed Leonard Cohen and this is her least favourite ❤ Beautiful song that i used to play on purpose

I love the chords to this song. This video makes it easy to pick them up (once you tune your guitar so it plays the G# chord with an "A" shape). I also love the hyperbolic words -- an exercise in extremes: a woman so hypnotic that men destroy themselves over her. I can't make heads or tails out of the title -- reverse the negative and it reads: "One of us must be right." Anyway, what a great song-writer Cohen was.

@popodopulus3826

4 жыл бұрын

There's not a G# in the song. Only a Gbm

@g.9478

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's about the resentment some get when they love someone that is loved by others. Wanting to make them jealous, put a spell on them, the pettiness and fascination of the I

@KingMinosxxvi

Жыл бұрын

a woman so hypnotic that men destroy themselves over her.......I don't think it's that at all. It's just about a psyche after break up

@devakrishna1209

10 ай бұрын

​@@KingMinosxxvithis.

Wonderful, even a little sad sometime, but so very much more behind his lyrics if heard a second time.

I ❤ Love Leonard Cohen ❤

el mejor!!!

Beautiful 🥰

Wow. What a composition. Absolutely beautiful and soothing to hear.

you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice oh please let me come into the storm

Que música linda!

Linda canção

Thinking that I went to 2 concerts at the old Forest Hills Stadium in NY 1) The Doors and 2) Leonard Cohen. Like the line in Avalon " If I knew things would no longer be, I would have tried to remember better" sigh. KZread has helped things "be" and I sit here night after night listening to all the great music I grew on and at times I think "we were so free and open, my generation, how did we manage to fuck the entire world up so bad". What comes to mind is Appletree Theatre (the album is on KZread) "E train to Forest Hills, let mother take care of your mind".

magnifique !!!!!!!

the best outro ever!

I played this track in Claybury Mental Hospital when I was a patient! Oh dear thought I what have I done?

@ms-iz9ye

4 жыл бұрын

Mark Webster that reminds me of the movie ‘awakenings’ seems like something beautiful that would happen among the troubles in a place where people are for help

It s So so Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

Que c'est beau 🎻🎼🕊️

Müzik evrenseldir✌👏👏👏

My favourite outro of a song.

Always reminds me of my first wife, a Canadian - So true...

My first time listening to this version, I came from the Gregory Allen Isakov version, I have to say that they're equally as beautiful

@gaelhillyardcreative

2 жыл бұрын

GAI is better, I feel.

@michaelfields849

2 жыл бұрын

@@gaelhillyardcreative yeah, I personally prefer that version but I also don't want to insult this version in any way

@doriangray7587

2 жыл бұрын

can i share my opinion? for me it's: Original/Father John Misty's version > any other versions

Sweeeeetttttesttttttt

Excuses without accountability still remains. I have nothing more to add.

Leonard, aquí seguimos escuchándote

Peace.

❤️

Happy New Year, good people! ❤️

Lalalala lala lalalala lalalalalala

A tough lesson I learned way too late. Then, I got punished for a charge that wasn’t true. But, that was in a world when I couldn’t be.

Görmek istemiyorlasimi güzelliktirler ha istemiyorlarsa ki istemiyorlarlarmistir anlasilmistirki anlamislar yine güzelliktelerde güzelliği bilemediklerindendir

Oh, come on! Kinda funny...Just cause it's Leonard Cohen doesn't mean it has to be taken mournfully...

Aye

Sinirler bozulunca güzellik sendeler

predictably leonard cohen does a different take on the what-to-wear question. he doesn't want her to put on or take off that see-through dress, just to confess that he tortured it.

For some strange reason i always want to think that this song is about morphine addiction. Don't ask me why :)

I was a beekeeper in Basingstoke when I first heard the four minute warning; I was dancing with the queen bee when all of a sudden, Charles, the gatekeeper's son, came running over in tweed, crying that the Russians were coming. I bowed my head and thought to myself "What of Dotty MR. Bottomsly?" That's when Cohen's insightful prose hit me like a thundercunt from Babylon and I knew what I had to do. Run!

I cannot believe Robert Altman didn’t use this song for the end credits of McCabe and Mrs Miller

R'i'p LeoNaRD CoheN 💗😱😇✌

Every time I listen to Leonard my nips turn blue.

احيه

pour moi, dédiée à la mauvaise compagnie de l'homme seul. (the ugly death)

I'm not sure this version included all the shouting at the end . . . Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Telefon sıkıntı guzelliktelerdir sabah şekeri ❤ emin olamiyorlarda orjinal sabah şekerindemilerki çok güzelsin diyorlar kimseyi ilgilendirmez sadecidir çok güzelsin kusebilirler telofon sıkıntı konturol güzellikte tutuklular iyi niyetli olarak güzelliğin hayranlaridirlar guzelligi uzemeyceklerine gore sabah şekeri ❤ ne derse o olurmusu olmaz olmak zorunda değil Özlemek zorundalarmki çok güzelsin nasil değilki güzellik evlilik öncesi guzellik ❤ uzulmesinde cok koyu hayranlaridirlar guzelligin dediği olmak zorunda öylede olacak birilerinin ❤ iptal edildiyselerki guzellige duyulan saygıdandir öylede olacak birilerinin ❤ maf olmasi onemli degildir diyorlar sade dusunmuslerdi sadece oydu neyse olsun ❤ serafettindir

Thank you Leonard for describing the cruel version of love that ive known.

Under the volcano

any leonard cohen fan who would love to connect on social media?

The heck does this song mean?

@peaceonearth88

2 ай бұрын

Deep one sided love

Is the song about a woman ? Or about being famous ? Or about drugs ? Pretty hard to figure out. But beautiful song.

@MrMyfrizzz

3 жыл бұрын

it's about Nico

Can anyone explain why he said that doctor wrote himself a prescription and the girl's name written on it

@nyingnyingnyingnying5538

2 жыл бұрын

It means he is medicating due to her

@achintpatial5427

2 жыл бұрын

@@nyingnyingnyingnying5538 but why doctor need medication because of her

@nyingnyingnyingnying5538

2 жыл бұрын

​@@achintpatial5427 My guess is he is traumatised/damaged by seeing the effect she has on Leonard.

@achintpatial5427

2 жыл бұрын

@@nyingnyingnyingnying5538 yes, this might be the case

@sidnotvicious8442

2 жыл бұрын

The doctor thought she would be the cure.

Gregory Alan Isakov's version hits you twice 👌

looks like scar face amiright?

Why is he screaming at the end?

@williamjohn314

3 жыл бұрын

catharsis

@jamestaylor3149

3 жыл бұрын

I never considered the last part as screaming or crying in the sense of pain. I always thought of it as funny, perhaps ironic. Our obsessions our cravings our self imposed misery is all part of the big game of which we have no control. To me, he sounds like he’s letting go and embracing the clear insanity which is the way most of us live our lives. It’s uplifting isn’t it?

His bob dylan era. How sad.

Lightfoot better by light years

That’s what I dislike so much about .Democrats. Accountability is not in their file as this group has come from government privilege. Often, wasted, but get accolades nonetheless. They didn’t give a rats behind about You. Just advancing themselves and never recalled where their beginning of their lives were.

❤️

I lit a thin green candle To make you jealous of me But the room just filled up with mosquitoes They heard that my body was free Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night And I put it in your little shoe And then I confess that I tortured the dress That you wore for the world to look through I showed my heart to the doctor He said I'd just have to quit Then he wrote himself a prescription And your name was mentioned in it Then he locked himself in a library shelf With the details of our honeymoon And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse And his practice is all in a ruin I heard of a saint who had loved you So I studied all night in his school He taught that the duty of lovers Is to tarnish the golden rule And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure He drowned himself in the pool His body is gone but back here on the lawn His spirit continues to drool An Eskimo showed me a movie He'd recently taken of you The poor man could hardly stop shivering His lips and his fingers were blue I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes And I guess he just never got warm But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice Oh please, let me come into the storm

❤