Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Gorgeous Cohen

Mark Steyn does a superb job of parsing Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love," a song whose lyrics are rather more memorable than its melody, which Steyn, damning it somewhat with faint praise, calls "good enough." I think the Cohen song below--my favourite among his more recent numbers--has a far more enchanting melody, and the combination of words and music is nothing short of ravishing:

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