Fun Music Information -> Leonard Cohen

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Music Quotes:

But now its come to distances and both of us must try,
your eyes are soft with sorrow,
Hey, that's no way, to say, goodbye

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir,
I have tried in my way to be free.

Submitted by: LucidLupin

Strange Offspring Names:

Lorca (daughter) - Named after Federico Garcia Lorca - a Spanish writer, I believe. Submitted by: JANE HOWE
Lorca - Submitted by: JANE HOWE

Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:

Song & Band Name	Song & Band Name	Comments & Submittor Name
"Baby, I'm Gonna Leave You"	"Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," Leonard Cohen	Raphael
"Goodbye Stranger"	"Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye," Leonard Cohen	Raphael
"Who Knows?"	"Everybody Knows," Leonard Cohen	Captain Irk

Remove a Letter From a Song Title:

"Morning Gory" originally "Morning Glory"

Mayu

Change a Letter In a Song Title:

"Everybody Snows" originally "Everybody Knows"

rocky

Song Parodies:

Original Song Name	Parody Song Name	Parody Author
"Everybody Knows"	"The Wild Wind Blows"	MarthaDtox
"Hallelujah"	"Nakamura"	Stephen Turner
"Hallelujah"	"How'd I Do Ya?"	Bob Konigsberg
"Hallelujah"	"Harlot Juliet"	Jake A Ralphing (Luke Brattoni)
"Hallelujah"	"Fallujah"	Jiffysquid
"I'm Your Man"	"I'm A Jew"	The Jewish doctor
"Democracy"	"Democracy (Afghan version)"	Susanna Viljanen
"The Partisan"	"The Iraqi Partisan"	Susanna Viljanen
"Woke Up This Morning"	"Favre Woke Up This Morning"	William McCullagh

Duets Not Yet Performed:

First Band/Song Name	Second Band/Song Name	New Song Name	Submittor
Night Comes On Leonard Cohen	The Night Comes Down Queen	The Night Comes On Down	Rock Princess

Misheard Lyrics:

"Field Commander Cohen" Misheard Lyrics: I heard you threw your oblong into the pool. Original Lyrics: I heard you threw your lot along with the poor.	"First We Take Manhattan" Misheard Lyrics: I'd really like to live inside you, baby. Original Lyrics: I'd really like to live beside you, baby.
"Waiting For The Miracle" Misheard Lyrics: Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crawl. Original Lyrics: Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb.	"Closing Time" Misheard Lyrics: The women tear their blouses off And then they dance on the polka dots. Original Lyrics: The women tear their blouses off And the men, they dance on the polka dots.
There are additional misheard lyrics available.

Song Parody Fragments:

"First We Take Manhatten"

Better Lyrics:

Ah dont like your west indulgence system
And ah dont like those tapes that sound so thin
Ah dont like what happened to my biscuit
First, we take Trollhatten, then we take New York

Original Lyrics:

I don't like your fashon buisness system
And I don't like those drugs that make you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhatten, then we take Berlin

Submitted by: Jesus

Misrhymed Lyrics:

"Hallelujah"

The Misrhymed Lyrics:

But you don't really care for music, do ya?
The baffled king composing hallelujah.

Why They're Misrhymed:

In every single verse, Cohen rhymes something else with 'hallelujah' - as well as 'do ya?' he manages 'overthrew ya,' 'what's it to ya?' and 'fool ya.' When he sings it, it almost sounds like it rhymes, too!

Submitted by: Red Tim

Dirty Lyrics:

"Hallelujiah"

The Dirty Lyrics:

There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Why They're Dirty:

This verse of the song as stated by many musicians and artists as being referance to that it is homage to the orgasm

Submitted by: JD

"Light As The Breeze"

The Dirty Lyrics:

She stands before you naked, you can see it you can taste it, and she comes to you light as the breeze. Now you can drink it, or you can nurse it, it don't matter how you worship as long as you're down on your knees. So I knelt there at the Delta at the Alpha, the Omega, at the cradle where the river meets the sees, and like a blessing come from heaven for something like a second I was healed and my heart was at ease.

Why They're Dirty:

It's about a man giving a woman oral... nay worshiping her pussy... whew... anyone else getting hot?

Submitted by: Rynn