Wokabaut_Meri
somewhere along the Way
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Francés 2015
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Via Francigena #1 Canterbury-Dover 2018
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from a zurich newspaper - featuring numerous, lesser known foto images across the decades
http://blog.tagesanzeiger.ch/zoom/index.php/82124/die-gesichter-des-leonard-cohen/
and this a friend shared w/ me a few days ago - never heard it before - whoa!
Chapeau, Monsieur!
(FYI: a link is posted above to just that song. - hope that link does work)We all seem to know his earlier work. I urge you to listen to his latest album, You want it darker, it was released only three weeks ago. Listen to the lyrics as well as the music. Simply great.
I know. I recommend listening to the whole album.(FYI: a link is posted above to just that song. - hope that link does work)
Thank you meri. I was very saddened by the news too. Went to both his concerts in Auckland, the second being his last concert ever. He looked tired, but performed beautifully and gave to the very end. With numerous encore he was on stage for more than 3 hours. I felt so privileged to have been there and he was definitely at his best in the last few years. The artists on stage with him were first class and brought his poetry to life.Farewell to Leonard Cohen 1934-2016 - novelist, poet, songwriter and artist, sometime Buddhist monk... the haunting notes of Hallelujah and then Anthem greeted me at the end of our Camino as we walked into the Plaza del Obradoiro...
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in....
Heart With No Companion
I greet you from the other side
Of sorrow and despair
With a love so vast and shattered
It will reach you everywhere
And I sing this for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
For the mother in confusion
Her cradle unfilled
For the heart with no companion
For the soul without a king
For the prima ballerina
Who cannot dance to anything
Through the days of shame that are coming
Through the nights of wild distress
Tho’ your promise count for noting
You must keep it nonetheless
You must keep it for the captain
Whose ship has not been built
for the mother in confusion
Her cradle unfilled
For the heart with no companion…
I greet you from the other side…
RIP.How timely his death at this time with the world getting darker at one level, yet giving opportunity for stepping up from collective complacency and balancing the harshness with compassion and love for our fellow human beings and respect for nature.
I can answer this only for me. Yes, the walk to Santiago de Compostela, is what we call the Camino, but really our whole lives are our Camino, as we journey through our lives to God. And I think, in his body of work, that Leonard Cohen has shared his Camino and many ideas that have been relevant to mine also. I think many of us seekers feel a connection to him. (Suzanne is indeed a lovely song, but one of many ... he is a lot more than this.)RIP.
Suzanne is a lovely song, to be sure....
But Cohen's connection to the Camino is....?
Spiritual.RIP.
Suzanne is a lovely song, to be sure....
But Cohen's connection to the Camino is....?
@rappahannock_revRIP.
Suzanne is a lovely song, to be sure....
But Cohen's connection to the Camino is....?
to me - he is, eh... was another wayfarer ....RIP.
Suzanne is a lovely song, to be sure....
But Cohen's connection to the Camino is....?
more than just Suzanne - manna for the soul. As is the Camino.RIP.
Suzanne is a lovely song, to be sure....
But Cohen's connection to the Camino is....?
@Katharina,Is it because of the lyrics? Maybe I misunderstand your comment but I myself found it often puzzling that this song is played at funerals and weddings. I know it mainly as the song performed by Jeff Buckley which I find sublime (but certainly not suitable for a funeral or a wedding). In the meantime I have learnt that Leonard Cohen himself wrote about 80 draft verses and used different sets of lyrics when he performed the song himself. Other performers have also used different sets or even changed the lyrics.
No. you don't have to be a Biblical Scholar to recognize these stories.@Katharina,
The chorus of "Halleluyah" is wonderful, and must be all that most people hear when they listen to the song. The lyrics are hardly suitable for either wedding or funeral, since they begin with the scene of Bathsheba seen naked by King David while bathing (leading of course to his rape of her and murder of her husband) and are followed by a reference to Sampson being tied up and his hair cut off by his wife, Delilah (leading to his being blinded and made captive by his enemies). Both scenes show radical abuse of a member of the opposite sex by a person who is or becomes their spouse. At a wedding, this is a very serious warning. But, admittedly, probably only recognized by me as a biblical scholar. I do not know what others hear when they listen to these lyrics.
Many people, myself included, are on High Sensitivity Alert this week.Lest the intent behind my question be misunderstood, I was simply wondering if Cohen had, at some point, walked the Camino.
No. you don't have to be a Biblical Scholar to recognize these stories.
Would it offend anybody if I suggested that perhaps at least the Christian, or Christian educated, members of the camino forum may be better aware of biblical stories than the general public? The young woman in Vilar de Mazarife who had a recording of Halleluyah playing on the church altar was fluent in English but completely bewildered at why I considered this song, with the usual lyrics, unsuitable for playing in church. I really don't know what it could mean to her or to persons who play it at weddings and funerals, unless it is the chorus.one doesn't have to be a biblical scholar to recognize the references to Bathsheba and King David or Sampson and Delilah.
Would it offend anybody if I suggested that perhaps at least the Christian, or Christian educated, members of the camino forum may be better aware of biblical stories than the general public?
Personally, I object to folk guitar Masses, and Metallic Christian Rock.
Yes... often it's difficult to express thoughts and feelings with only wordsMany people, myself included, are on High Sensitivity Alert this week.
RIP.
Suzanne is a lovely song, to be sure....
But Cohen's connection to the Camino is....?
Only Words...
What nuance and inflected outcome you expect..breathless upon hearing
Words
From a Beloved someone
Or a stranger..well met upon yon highlands with darkness
Fast upon you.
This Way....
Or pon conversation last?
Next time
You were looking down upon stilled face
Repose and emptied vessel
Recollections re played in tear washed halls
Memories
Or between vast distance between you
And I
Because we once disagreed my friend
I..miss you
Said into bitter wind
I miss you...
My old friend
Look upon that woundrous face
Drink
DRINK in their words! ..fresh back from distance and turn.
You..are here
I..hear you
Now.
The last whisper between olden kin
Kith and friend.
I
Missed you
My old friend
I turned and you were taken by the wind.
Distant lights they are
To the weary dusty sin of time.
There are no secrets on the Way
Only chances and misses and what I ment to say...
Deep within...
Deep within our Secret Life...
Only matters when
Not where
Nor why
Nuance and bend of phrase
Good day and along with ye..
Along the way.
Meri..my Muse smiled tonite
A morsal loosed her lyre
Leonards pyre warms many ways
Let us dance and talk in turns of phrase
celebrate all..the Bard has gone
Be Blessed upon your Ways Peregrinos
@Wokabaut_MeriAh William... if you only knew how timely these beautiful words of yours are:
I
Missed you
My old friend
I turned and you were taken by the wind
Hubby and I exhausted ourselves yesterday looking for a friend who had been swamped by events in his life and was greatly troubled. A massive police search got underway this morning.
We've just now been informed that his body has been located.
Life is so precious and so fragile and inexplicable pain can overwhelm.
Be Blessed upon your Ways Peregrinos
I miss you...
My old friend.
Ah William... if you only knew how timely these beautiful words of yours are:
I
Missed you
My old friend
I turned and you were taken by the wind
Hubby and I exhausted ourselves yesterday looking for a friend who had been swamped by events in his life and was greatly troubled. A massive police search got underway this morning.
We've just now been informed that his body has been located.
Life is so precious and so fragile and inexplicable pain can overwhelm.
Be Blessed upon your Ways Peregrinos
I miss you...
My old friend.
So lovely, brought me to tears. Thanks for sharingSaw him in my native Sligo about 7 years ago, it is where his favourite Poet Yeats spent so much time. There is a video I watched last night and it won't be a hit with all Cohen fans but I think it is priceless. It is almost like Cohen doing "Karaoke". It is filmed in Dublin Ireland and is more like the end of an Irish Wedding. Just look at Cohen's facial expressions and that of the musicians. "Save the last Dace for me" appropriate as a tribute and also a little tongue in check , joyous and a bit of humour.
There is a very good analysis of the lyrics of the song 'Hallelujah' in this Rolling Stone article@Katharina,
The chorus of "Halleluyah" is wonderful, and must be all that most people hear when they listen to the song. The lyrics are hardly suitable for either wedding or funeral, since they begin with the scene of Bathsheba seen naked by King David while bathing (leading of course to his rape of her and murder of her husband) and are followed by a reference to Sampson being tied up and his hair cut off by his wife, Delilah (leading to his being blinded and made captive by his enemies). Both scenes show radical abuse of a member of the opposite sex by a person who is or becomes their spouse. At a wedding, this is a very serious warning. But, admittedly, probably only recognized by me as a biblical scholar. I do not know what others hear when they listen to these lyrics.
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