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thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M
I have written one or two, often to someone significant to me, so there they stay those poems.
I do love this one, not sure my favourite but it definitely talks about the human condition and with one I trust could write of it, by Leonard Cohen:
"Recitation"
You came to me this morning and you handled me like meat.
You’d have to be a man to know how good that feels, how sweet.
My mirrored twin, my next of kin, I’d know you in my sleep and who but you would take me in, a thousand kisses deep.
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat, you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet, who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is, and all he was,
A thousand kisses deep.
I know you had to lie to me, I know you had to cheat, to pose all hot and high behind the veils of shear deceit, our perfect porn aristocrat so elegant and cheap, I’m old but I’m still into that,
A thousand kisses deep.
I’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it' s in between I freeze.
Been working out, but its too late, it’s been to late for years.
But you look good, you really do, they love you on the street.
If you were here I’d kneel for you,
a thousand kisses deep.
The autumn moved across your skin, got something in my eye, a light that doesn’t need to live, and doesn’t need to die.
A riddle in the book of love, obscure and obsolete, till witnessed here in time and blood,
A thousand kisses deep.
And I'm still working with the wine, still dancing cheek to cheek, the band is playing Auld Lang Syne, but the heart will not retreat.
I ran with Diz and I sang with Ray, I never had their sweep, but once or twice they let me play
A thousand kisses deep.
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat, you see, I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet, who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is, and all he was,
A thousand kisses deep.
But you don’t need to hear me now, and every word I speak, it counts against me anyhow,
A thousand kisses deep.
I do love this one, not sure my favourite but it definitely talks about the human condition and with one I trust could write of it, by Leonard Cohen:
"Recitation"
You came to me this morning and you handled me like meat.
You’d have to be a man to know how good that feels, how sweet.
My mirrored twin, my next of kin, I’d know you in my sleep and who but you would take me in, a thousand kisses deep.
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat, you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet, who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is, and all he was,
A thousand kisses deep.
I know you had to lie to me, I know you had to cheat, to pose all hot and high behind the veils of shear deceit, our perfect porn aristocrat so elegant and cheap, I’m old but I’m still into that,
A thousand kisses deep.
I’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it' s in between I freeze.
Been working out, but its too late, it’s been to late for years.
But you look good, you really do, they love you on the street.
If you were here I’d kneel for you,
a thousand kisses deep.
The autumn moved across your skin, got something in my eye, a light that doesn’t need to live, and doesn’t need to die.
A riddle in the book of love, obscure and obsolete, till witnessed here in time and blood,
A thousand kisses deep.
And I'm still working with the wine, still dancing cheek to cheek, the band is playing Auld Lang Syne, but the heart will not retreat.
I ran with Diz and I sang with Ray, I never had their sweep, but once or twice they let me play
A thousand kisses deep.
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat, you see, I'm just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet, who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is, and all he was,
A thousand kisses deep.
But you don’t need to hear me now, and every word I speak, it counts against me anyhow,
A thousand kisses deep.
Montanaman · M
@thewindupbirdchronicles Love it 👍🤗🌹💞
thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M
@Montanaman Leonard was known to peer over his words for years before he would release any. I saw him perform this version live, which is a variaton on the song "A Thousand Kisses Deep" and somehow it felt created in that very moment.
Montanaman · M
@thewindupbirdchronicles I remember this. 👍🤗🌹
Abstraction · 61-69, M
@thewindupbirdchronicles Cohen was amazing. Alexandra Leaving is one of my favourites, and he was riffing off an amazing poem, 'The god abandons Antony' by Constantine P. Cavafy - a great piece in its own right.
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-god-abandons-antony/
But I love Cohen's song even more.
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-god-abandons-antony/
But I love Cohen's song even more.
Abstraction · 61-69, M
thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M
@Abstraction He had a way of borrowing stories and then turning them into his own in a way that was entirely original. Alexandra Leaving is beautiful, something about it so sweet, accepting, and sentimental at the same time.
thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M
@Abstraction I think the song Alexandra Leaving also has references to ancient times. Somewhere mythological to the time of Alexandria ? My historical references are always weak, as I often more love the emotional aspects... when sometimes the two are connected somewhere.
That if you listened to him, he understood in words more they many can express. No wonder a tortured soul that way.
That if you listened to him, he understood in words more they many can express. No wonder a tortured soul that way.
@thewindupbirdchronicles
This is one his most beautiful songs... thank you for making me realize hiw I miss listening to his music...
This is one his most beautiful songs... thank you for making me realize hiw I miss listening to his music...