The New Album from Leonard Cohen.
Old Ideas.
Old ideas es el primer álbum de estudio deLeonard Cohen desde Dear Heather (2004).
Las diez canciones del disco se sumergen en los temas más profundos de la existencia humana (la relación con un ser superior, el amor, la sexualidad, la pérdida, la muerte), y es posiblemente el trabajo más espiritual del referencial cantante y compositor canadiense. Old Ideas inspira caminos hacia un mayor sentido de la compasión y de la decencia.
La grabación de Old Ideas comenzó en enero de 2011 con canciones y textos elaborados a lo largo de los años. Las primeras versiones de dos de las canciones del álbum (Amen y Lullaby) se grabaron originalmente en 2007 mientras que las primeras versiones de Lullaby y The Darkness sonaron en directo durante la gira mundial de Cohen anterior al lanzamiento del disco.
Producido por Patrick Leonard, Anjani Thomas, Ed Sanders y Dino Soldo. Junto a Cohen, y su voz de barítono, en el disco aparecen las cantantes Dana Glover, Sharon Robinson, The Webb Sisters (Hattie y Charley Webb) y Jennifer Warnes. El diseño de la portada y las pinturas del álbum son obra del propio Cohen.
Como primer single Show me the place, como sengundo Darkness. "No tengo futuro, sé que mis días están contados. No es tan amable el presente, sólo mil cosas por hacer" canta Leonard Cohen en Darkness. Es la canción más rítmica de Old Ideas, con un tratamiento en los arreglos cercanos a un blues más tradicional marcado por un riff consistente y un órgano Hammond.
Old Ideas.
Old ideas es el primer álbum de estudio deLeonard Cohen desde Dear Heather (2004).
Las diez canciones del disco se sumergen en los temas más profundos de la existencia humana (la relación con un ser superior, el amor, la sexualidad, la pérdida, la muerte), y es posiblemente el trabajo más espiritual del referencial cantante y compositor canadiense. Old Ideas inspira caminos hacia un mayor sentido de la compasión y de la decencia.
La grabación de Old Ideas comenzó en enero de 2011 con canciones y textos elaborados a lo largo de los años. Las primeras versiones de dos de las canciones del álbum (Amen y Lullaby) se grabaron originalmente en 2007 mientras que las primeras versiones de Lullaby y The Darkness sonaron en directo durante la gira mundial de Cohen anterior al lanzamiento del disco.
Producido por Patrick Leonard, Anjani Thomas, Ed Sanders y Dino Soldo. Junto a Cohen, y su voz de barítono, en el disco aparecen las cantantes Dana Glover, Sharon Robinson, The Webb Sisters (Hattie y Charley Webb) y Jennifer Warnes. El diseño de la portada y las pinturas del álbum son obra del propio Cohen.
Como primer single Show me the place, como sengundo Darkness. "No tengo futuro, sé que mis días están contados. No es tan amable el presente, sólo mil cosas por hacer" canta Leonard Cohen en Darkness. Es la canción más rítmica de Old Ideas, con un tratamiento en los arreglos cercanos a un blues más tradicional marcado por un riff consistente y un órgano Hammond.
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 will never have the freedom
To refuse
He will speak these words of wisdom
Like a sage, a man of vision
Though he knows he’s really nothing
But the brief elaboration of a tube
Going home
Without my sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
To where it’s better
Than before
Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without the costume
That I wore
He wants to write a love song
An anthem of forgiving
A manual for living with defeat
A cry above the suffering
A sacrifice recovering
But that isn’t what I want him to complete
I want to make him certain
That he doesn’t have a burden
That he doesn’t need a vision
That he only has permission
To do my instant bidding
That is to SAY what I have told him
To repeat
Going home
Without my sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
Going home
To where it’s better
Than before
Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without the costume
That I wore
I love to speak with Leonard
He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
He’s a lazy bastard
Living in a suit.
….. it was drinking from your cup,
I got the darkness
from your little ruby cup
I said ‘is this contagious?’
You said ‘just drink it up’
I’ve got no future baby
I know my days are few
I’ve got no future though
As I say I know my days are few
Is the present not that pleasant (?)
Just a lot of things to do
I don’t like your sticky little bud
I don’t like alcohol
I don’t need your loving touch
That’s always been your call
Cause there’s nothing but the darkness
Makes any sense to me at all
I should have seen the darkness
It was right behind your eyes
All those pools so deep and heartless
I just had to take a dive
Ah yea but winning you was easy
Ah but the darkness was the price
Got no future (x3)
Yea I know the days are few
The present is not that pleasant(?)
Just a lot of things to do
(AND THEN QUASIMODO THE BELLS THE BELLS !!!!)
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place where my head is bend and low
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains, a lot of chains
Like a spade
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
Crazy to love you.
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place where my head is bend and low
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains, a lot of chains
Like a spade
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
Show me the place, I've forgotten I don't know
Show me the place, where you want your slave to go
The troubles came I saved what I could save
A shred of light, a particle away
But there were chains so I hastened to the hay
There were chains so I loved you like a slave
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place
Show me the place, help me roll away the stone
Show me the place, I can't move this thing alone
Show me the place where the word became a man
Show me the place where the suffering began
Crazy to love you.
Crazy To Love You :
Had to go crazy to love you
Had to go down to the pit
Had to do time in the tower
Begging my crazy to quit
Had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
Her braids and her blouse all undone
Sometimes I’d head for the highway
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie
But crazy has places to hide in
That are deeper than any goodbye
Had to go crazy to love you
Had to let everything fall
Had to be people I hated
Had to be no one at all
I’m tired of choosing desire
I been saved by a blessed fatigue
The gates of commitment unwired
And nobody trying to leave
Sometimes I’d head for the highway
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie
But crazy has places to hide in
That are deeper than any goodbye
Had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
Her braids and her blouse all undone
Amén
Had to do time in the tower
Begging my crazy to quit
Had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
Her braids and her blouse all undone
Sometimes I’d head for the highway
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie
But crazy has places to hide in
That are deeper than any goodbye
Had to go crazy to love you
Had to let everything fall
Had to be people I hated
Had to be no one at all
I’m tired of choosing desire
I been saved by a blessed fatigue
The gates of commitment unwired
And nobody trying to leave
Sometimes I’d head for the highway
I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie
But crazy has places to hide in
That are deeper than any goodbye
Had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
Her braids and her blouse all undone
Amén
Tell me again
When I've been to the river
And I've taken the edge off my thirst
Tell me again
We're alone and I'm listening
I'm listening so hard that it hurts
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you want me then
Amen...
Tell me again
When the victims are singing
And the Laws of Remorse are restored
Tell me again
That you know what I'm thinking
But vengeance belongs to the Lord
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you love me then
Amen...
Tell me again
When the day has been ransomed
And the night has no right to begin
Try me again
When the angels are panting
And scratching at the door to come in
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you need me then
Amen...
Tell me again
When the filth of the butcher
Is washed in the blood of the lamb
Tell me again
When the rest of the culture
Has passed through the Eye of the Camp
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you love me then
Amen...
When I've been to the river
And I've taken the edge off my thirst
Tell me again
We're alone and I'm listening
I'm listening so hard that it hurts
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you want me then
Amen...
Tell me again
When the victims are singing
And the Laws of Remorse are restored
Tell me again
That you know what I'm thinking
But vengeance belongs to the Lord
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you love me then
Amen...
Tell me again
When the day has been ransomed
And the night has no right to begin
Try me again
When the angels are panting
And scratching at the door to come in
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you need me then
Amen...
Tell me again
When the filth of the butcher
Is washed in the blood of the lamb
Tell me again
When the rest of the culture
Has passed through the Eye of the Camp
Tell me again
When I'm clean and I'm sober
Tell me again
When I've seen through the horror
Tell me again
Tell me over and over
Tell me that you love me then
Amen...
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