Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Lyric)

Sdílet
Vložit
  • čas přidán 20. 10. 2016
  • Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (Official Lyric Video)
    Listen on Spotify: smarturl.it/lc_spotify
    Listen on Apple Music: smarturl.it/lc_apple
    Amazon: smarturl.it/lc_amu
    CZcams Music: smarturl.it/lc_ytm
    Facebook: / leonardcohen
    Instagram: / leonardcohen
    Official Website: www.leonardcohen.com
    Lyrics:
    If you are the dealer
    I'm out of the game
    If you are the healer
    It means I'm broken and lame
    If thine is the glory then
    Mine must be the shame
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame
    Magnified, sanctified
    Be thy holy name
    Vilified, crucified
    In the human frame
    A million candles burning
    For the help that never came
    You want it darker
    Hineni, hineni
    I'm ready, my Lord
    There's a lover in the story
    But the story's still the same
    There's a lullaby for suffering
    And a paradox to blame
    But it's written in the scriptures
    And it's not some idle claim
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame
    They're lining up the prisoners
    And the guards are taking aim
    I struggled with some demons
    They were middle-class and tame
    I didn't know I had permission
    To murder and to maim
    You want it darker
    Hineni, hineni
    I'm ready, my Lord
    Magnified, sanctified
    Be thy holy name
    Vilified, crucified
    In the human frame
    A million candles burning
    For the love that never came
    You want it darker
    We kill the flame
    If you are the dealer
    Let me out of the game
    If you are the healer
    I'm broken and lame
    If thine is the glory
    Mine must be the shame
    You want it darker
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    I'm ready, my Lord
    Hineni
    Hineni, hineni
    Hineni
  • Hudba

Komentáře • 3,7K

  • @arib8367
    @arib8367 Před 7 lety +3341

    For anyone wondering, "hineni" is Hebrew for "here I am".

    • @cristinachelariu1819
      @cristinachelariu1819 Před 7 lety +44

      Thanks for the clarification. Also, what does he mean by "You want it darker"?

    • @hermite63
      @hermite63 Před 7 lety +72

      Hineni, Hineni,
      I am ready my Lord...

    • @MeT2338
      @MeT2338 Před 7 lety +45

      WE are killing the flame...

    • @NatandGeorge
      @NatandGeorge Před 7 lety +11

      Good ol' Kol Nidrei. . .

    • @nenadcikic146
      @nenadcikic146 Před 7 lety +6

      tnx I was just to look for the meaning

  • @Jamesthechef0311
    @Jamesthechef0311 Před 5 lety +911

    No one writes lyrics like this.
    No one sounds like this

    • @Wolfman-tx1ne
      @Wolfman-tx1ne Před 4 lety +18

      James Brenner that’s what makes this song FUCKING AWESOME

    • @GraeByorhil
      @GraeByorhil Před 4 lety +11

      It's a different genre but I would recommend you take a look at Zach Hemsey, may I suggest you start with either "The Pursuit of Knowledge" or "Lesson From A Nomad"?
      Edit - temporarily forgot the name of the second song and fixed this.

    • @navb0tactual
      @navb0tactual Před 4 lety

      Steve Downes sounds like a very slightly high pitched version of him... just a little bit

    • @brotherchrisgr9070
      @brotherchrisgr9070 Před 4 lety +2

      Have u listen songs of eminem?

    • @55metsfan
      @55metsfan Před 3 lety +1

      Cohen passed away shortly after releasing this song. And there is speculation that he knew that he was not long for the world when he wrote it.

  • @tamarapetrov4990
    @tamarapetrov4990 Před rokem +162

    The creepiest thing is realising he wrote this when he knew he was dying. it's so apt for someone in his disease state. I feel him.... given in to the inevitival, but so much respect for never giving up and hiding his voice.. It makes me weep to know most of this album was recorded with him in his loungeroom chair...but SO grateful he gave us this! May his legend live on for many years!He is the grand master of poetry!

    • @user-ij2xu8ek7j
      @user-ij2xu8ek7j Před rokem +3

      Да, это действительно так!!!

    • @eileengabellini6935
      @eileengabellini6935 Před 8 měsíci +8

      Just found this gem. What a beautiful last gift to the world. This is powerful. Bless you Leonard Cohen

    • @MadonnaGrogan
      @MadonnaGrogan Před 6 měsíci +4

      Not creepy just ready to go to next levei

    • @Binknew
      @Binknew Před 5 měsíci +1

      💛🔥🕊️

  • @UwUKawaiiAnimeFanUwU69
    @UwUKawaiiAnimeFanUwU69 Před 3 lety +579

    Woah. I've literally never heard anything like this before. I've got chills.

    • @DoctorFurioso
      @DoctorFurioso Před 2 lety +14

      You might like Scott 4 or Tilt by Scott Walker. He was a near contemporary of Leonard Cohen who also died recently, and worked on similar aesthetics of pop, folk, and classical overlayed with dark, cryptically poetic lyrics.

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 2 lety +5

      It does that ! I found this guy not long ago. November December 2019. Hit a rough patch ! Suddenly homeless. Temporarily staying Garfield Park. Not far from the Hawks practice arena. A home in a row of homes. It's cold out. I'm on the stoop ! Got my headphones on. And my phone just goes to sum .. next song. And it was this one. I stand out, on this block. I'm fair skinned, Those that live on this block are not. Once I hit play, he's singing deep, I've got the chills listening... And these gorgeous young ladies are walking back and forth, looking me over. What's this doing. What's he listening to ? Now they too, are sitting on the stoop. I'm half way through this song, and I guess I started to sing... I go grab a Bluetooth speaker 🔊 And I share what I'm listening to ... They must sing in church ! They pick up the back vocal , like immediately. I'm blown away ! These girls are singing background vocals, to Lenord Cohen !

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 2 lety

      Just hearing Lenord they can just go to choir ! Yep ! I was awestruck ! After that fist night.. I went out on the stoop, each night, after that, playing through Lenord's hits. These gals singing. Met their parents. We talked. They took it upon themselves, to introduce me, to the block ! For November and December, down the block, we sang and danced ! Lenord Cohan, they sang vocals, and Tupac ! Ha ! Man.. it was great, for a little while. Thank you neighbors, on 2500 block. Just south of Madison. I was so moved, I went to Pete's. This Mother has 3 kids. They're bumping me with the cart. This Mother looks up at me.. like, sorry dude ! My kids.... Yeah ! She's getting wrung up.. looking at me like, why you still here ? I say... Dude, let me pick up her tab ! And, can I get one of those trees ? He looks at me like.. you good for this ? Yeah ! Go get a 🎄 tree. She's like "what are you doing" ? Strange white man ? I said, "can I pay for your groceries" ?
      She looks at me like, I spoke French or something. I said yeah ! Let me treat you, and the kids.
      As the store assistant is placing the groceries in car, I say, bring that Christmas tree ! I help strap it to her hood. The whole time, she's looking at me like ? I don't even know you ! Yeah. That's ok !

    • @brianwade879
      @brianwade879 Před 2 lety

      Hope she had a good Christmas 🌲 Compliments of Lenord Cohan. He got in my head. Took another tree home to my daughter. She scowled ! Dad ! I don't need you dancing with my neighbors ! You have to go. Wow. By Garfield Park ! It was swell meeting you ! And, yes, the girls were in the choir ! Just a block away. They pulled me in ! Welcomed me. Man. Lenord Cohan meets Garfield Park ! 🕊️

    • @GuadalupePicasso
      @GuadalupePicasso Před 2 lety +6

      Welcome to the wonderful world of Leonard Cohen!
      May his memory be eternal☦❤

  • @MortenGrueSrensen
    @MortenGrueSrensen Před 7 lety +311

    Give this man a Nobel prize in literature !
    This is just amazing.

  • @cullyschmetterling3963
    @cullyschmetterling3963 Před 7 lety +401

    Leonard Cohen never disappoints. The older he becomes, the better his music.

    • @wintherr3527
      @wintherr3527 Před 7 lety +50

      Nope. His music has always been as good as this.

    • @ishosharma3466
      @ishosharma3466 Před 7 lety +18

      NOBEL PRIZE FOR LEONARD COHEN IS OVERDUE :-)

    • @kllk90
      @kllk90 Před 7 lety +8

      Cully Schmetterling HE JUST DIED

    • @noeldocrpsych2966
      @noeldocrpsych2966 Před 7 lety +12

      rest in peace sir, what a poet, wordsmith you were!

    • @woswasdenni1914
      @woswasdenni1914 Před 7 lety +6

      kllk90 well that just means his next album will be on a whole new level

  • @markv8
    @markv8 Před 26 dny +3

    I always come back to this song every time I'm at rock bottom and need strength to make a big decision in my life. Thank you Leonard. May you Rest in Peace.

  • @samsepiol4761
    @samsepiol4761 Před 3 lety +41

    John 3.19
    And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

    • @MichaelBeatonx
      @MichaelBeatonx Před 3 lety +1

      And what is darker than to take the light and extinguish it? What deed more evil?

    • @jacobsamorodin9937
      @jacobsamorodin9937 Před 3 lety +4

      Leonard Cohen, blood lineage of the Jewish tribe of Levi, came to know the Lord (Adonai) whom you know as Jesus (Yeshua).

    • @chrissonofpear1384
      @chrissonofpear1384 Před 3 lety +2

      What were they expect, after so much of the Old Testament conditioned them to kill those who claim a different God, though, @Sam Sepiol ?
      And it's no excuse for running with Matthew 27:25 so far, surely.

  • @simikess
    @simikess Před 7 lety +3236

    Does anyone else agree with me that Leonard Cohen, rather than Bob Dylan, should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, for his poetry?

    • @kh91132
      @kh91132 Před 6 lety +35

      simikess I agree with you

    • @raquelstrauss4139
      @raquelstrauss4139 Před 6 lety +28

      Yes.

    • @ericgilbert8725
      @ericgilbert8725 Před 6 lety +60

      Yes, but I love both!

    • @otto4983
      @otto4983 Před 6 lety +17

      Absolutely

    • @jimmckie8818
      @jimmckie8818 Před 6 lety +106

      Both of them. Dylan's lyrics are divine, concise and amazingly lyrical. Been listening to the old bugger for 52 years now. :-)

  • @MOGGS1942
    @MOGGS1942 Před 7 lety +579

    I've just woken to the news that Mr. Cohen has left us. My world has indeed become much darker. Knowing that countless millions of his fans' are sharing my pain, is a comfort, but nothing will ever be the same again.
    RIP, Sir., may you find eternal peace.

    • @kerryg100
      @kerryg100 Před 7 lety +5

      brian morgan
      I concur

    • @Theimbennn
      @Theimbennn Před 7 lety +30

      His physical being has left us but he is immortal and is cemented deep in history and heart. We the choir will keep singing his songs for the rest of all days. God bless

    • @ViFeTeVi
      @ViFeTeVi Před 7 lety +27

      No one's world can be darker. Leonard's lyrics are the light that guide us.
      RIP, LC.

    • @gitanaana
      @gitanaana Před 7 lety +13

      I agree with you Brian ! My beloved long-lost friend Susan Brinckman in Montreal once rented Leonard her entire home- and moved out- so he could film "Beautiful Losers" . Maybe his songs can inspire us all though to take our own fading poems and lonely lives from the bottom shelf and refine them. By the way, what happened to Suzanne? His last letter to Marianne was very beautiful too- reaching out so he could "almost' touch her hand when she too was moving to the next dimension where he said he would soon be following. Happy they kept in touch... Listening over and over to Farewell Marianne and Suzanne, I wondered what his two beloveds looked like and saw pix here. I feel that Bob Dylan would gladly have wanted Leonard to have the Nobel Prize, At least they rushed Leonard's new CD out while he was still living. NAMASTE! - Ana ( sad sad about everything this past week! )

    • @MOGGS1942
      @MOGGS1942 Před 7 lety +22

      The BBC rescheduled their BBC Four Channel last night, repeating a 1988 programme which featured a live concert, interspersed with interview snippets and ending with a visit to his home on Hydra, Greece, which he purchased for $1,500.00 back in 1966.
      As I watched the great man perform on stage and interact with interviewer and neighbours on Hydra, it became so much clearer just why he was so adored by so many, and for so long.
      His death at 82 came as a real bolt out of the blue, to me anyway. I just assumed he would go on forever.
      I'm glad he passed our way, and that I was introduced to his music by a girl friend whose name just happened to be - Marianne.
      Best wishes to you Ana.

  • @markwillingham5343
    @markwillingham5343 Před 29 dny +2

    He was being honest God loves that

  • @theloniouscoltrane3778
    @theloniouscoltrane3778 Před 4 lety +154

    You know you are not wasting your time while listening to a L.Cohen song. Poetry, philosophy, & a divine music to accompany it. One of the greatest who ever penned a song. Each word is deep and existential.

    • @emilyb117
      @emilyb117 Před rokem +2

      I completely agree. If humanity is still around 2000 years from now, THIS will be the piece to understand our generation.

    • @jalander8817
      @jalander8817 Před rokem +2

      Each song is a flamboyant and unambiguous ode to Lucifer.

    • @yemirz
      @yemirz Před rokem

      Real

    • @NepetaLeijon
      @NepetaLeijon Před rokem +2

      @@jalander8817 well he's jewish so

  • @MasalaiMeri
    @MasalaiMeri Před 7 lety +195

    Thank you for the Joy, Leonard Cohen. I will never forget you. Gratitude.
    Rest in peace.

  • @po1897
    @po1897 Před 7 lety +528

    (im ready my lord) - and then died after ~1 month !!
    so emotional song wow. RIP

    • @deennaemilio
      @deennaemilio Před 5 lety +32

      It wasn't a month, it was 2 weeks. This song released 10/20/16 and he died on 11/7/16

    • @raddley1
      @raddley1 Před 5 lety +19

      i knew hearing this song, that he was saying goodbye to us

    • @yoshitadaihara1
      @yoshitadaihara1 Před 5 lety +23

      My wife died two years ago at the age of 52. I'm still in sadness.

    • @christophermills7693
      @christophermills7693 Před 4 lety +3

      I new he died but not that close. Yes it does make sense that this would be his good bye. It is also not the only entertainer to do this. When the Ultimate Warrior did his speech on his last appearance on raw, I turned at look at the screen and asked into the air why it sounded like he was giving his own urology.... he died 2 days later

    • @carbo73
      @carbo73 Před 4 lety

      @@deennaemilio wow, I didn't knew that!

  • @submonicass
    @submonicass Před 4 lety +95

    Tears falls everytime. We lost a poet, there will never again be such an artist, such a voice, such a poet of music, such a great man.

  • @hiimcharlottecharlotte
    @hiimcharlottecharlotte Před 4 lety +259

    The weird thing about this song(I don't know whether to call it a song or poem), is that it hits you. It doesn't matter whether you're Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Hindu, Agnostic, or otherwise. I'm personally not religious, I have no god I believe in, and yet this song still hits me as hard as it hits my Jewish friend, and it hits all our friends the same. I see this as a testament to how powerful this song, and Leonard Cohen himself is.

    • @lovejustifiesexistence
      @lovejustifiesexistence Před 2 lety +5

      Not as powerful as god himself

    • @tiredaleir
      @tiredaleir Před 2 lety +20

      @@lovejustifiesexistence that wasn't what the comment was talking about tho...it's not talking about who or which is the most powerful one...

    • @shaftdrive7567
      @shaftdrive7567 Před 2 lety +1

      I love the personal writing, I suppose he added the religious bit coz bigger market.

    • @honingbijtje83
      @honingbijtje83 Před 2 lety

      @@lovejustifiesexistence
      There is no god, all there is human made up stories that led to the death and suffering of billions of people.

    • @johnnjuguna5352
      @johnnjuguna5352 Před rokem +2

      "I'm ready my Lord." Find God and submit.

  • @UnknownUPO
    @UnknownUPO Před 7 lety +801

    Go meet your muse, Leonard. RIP

  • @LaughingStock_
    @LaughingStock_ Před 7 lety +330

    "I am, ready, My Lord". Maybe you were, Dear Leonard . . . but we certainly weren't. Damn. We still need your light. Here. Now. Goodbye. And, thank-you.

    • @jimmyjoe8225
      @jimmyjoe8225 Před 6 lety +3

      Martin Hugh hineni doesnt mean i am ready. it means here i am, or more powerfully, here i stand.

    • @awendigowithinternetaccess4400
      @awendigowithinternetaccess4400 Před 6 lety +7

      Jimmy Joe He was referring to the actual English quote from the song you doofus.

    • @GavinMaGrath
      @GavinMaGrath Před 6 lety

      Well said.

    • @lindaelawson9415
      @lindaelawson9415 Před 6 lety +1

      I fell in love with Cohen and his glorious gravel voice when I was 12. Never ready! I began to think he was immortal, would endlessly regale us with his dark brooding witty songs. Now, when I sing, "Hallelujah" and the line "I stand before the lord of song" -- I think of Leonard Cohen. Hallelujah. We miss you.

    • @JOSHGD
      @JOSHGD Před měsícem

      Beautiful

  • @cherrycola542
    @cherrycola542 Před 4 lety +63

    "we work in the dark, and serve the light. We Are Assassins"

  • @zem7127
    @zem7127 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Heard this in the Assassin's Creed Origins trailer, it's so good. His voice reminds me vaguely of Johnny Cash when he was older.

  • @Gew219
    @Gew219 Před 7 lety +474

    Leonard should have been awarded the Nobel Prize instead of Dylan while he was still living. Cohen was a true poet and a musician, not only a rockman. His lines have the greatest depth of all the lyrics you can hear from a radio.

    • @troolov6512
      @troolov6512 Před 7 lety +15

      yeah, but perhaps not instead but besides, and there are so many others unknown that deserve/d it

    • @Gew219
      @Gew219 Před 7 lety +39

      That's true but I'm still bitter and sorrowful that Leonard didn't get the recognition and prize he deserved before he died. If Nobel Comitee wanted to start to honour musicians and songwriters they should have started with Cohen. He brought poetry and music together in a perfect manner.

    • @yuribotnarenko5010
      @yuribotnarenko5010 Před 7 lety +26

      i thought of Leonard too when Dylan got the prize

    • @MsTwelvemoons
      @MsTwelvemoons Před 7 lety +14

      Totally agree!

    • @dylanwaits2691
      @dylanwaits2691 Před 7 lety +12

      Come now - it is not an either-or proposition... but both.

  • @burningburney94
    @burningburney94 Před 7 lety +442

    .......and darker it has gotten.

    • @kermeey
      @kermeey Před 7 lety +30

      but for him, there may be light

    • @williambulsara3356
      @williambulsara3356 Před 7 lety +15

      burningburney94 he is in the light now and painfree: an Angel.❤️❤️❤️

    • @dominicpelle7841
      @dominicpelle7841 Před 7 lety +8

      ....how Dum...
      Like the beautiful Cohen would in any way be able to relate to the darkness of Trump...

    • @billybangbang9180
      @billybangbang9180 Před 7 lety +3

      You need to go fuck off...Kim Jong Dum !!!

    • @lizpinchen6440
      @lizpinchen6440 Před 7 lety +11

      What was great about Cohen was his ability to express both light and darkness so well. Life is both beauty & terror...

  • @alexcostas2278
    @alexcostas2278 Před 3 lety +59

    American Gods brought me here and I must say this one is on another level!

    • @lewiskazinsky7334
      @lewiskazinsky7334 Před 3 lety +1

      The show that has become as slow, repetitive and sparse as this song - only this song actually works 😂

  • @mackielunkey2205
    @mackielunkey2205 Před rokem +12

    Bones and All brought me here. What a badass song.

  • @fabriciotavaresdemoraes9376
    @fabriciotavaresdemoraes9376 Před 7 lety +547

    His music has made us walk confortably through the darkness. His flame will not be killed.

    • @mynameispolak
      @mynameispolak Před 7 lety +11

      Fabrício Tavares de Moraes well said, brother!

    • @SecretCh0rd
      @SecretCh0rd Před 5 lety +2

      it seems our writing on the wall
      was Lorem Ipsum after all
      A higher tide will wash it all
      Wash it all away
      -Dessa, Sound the Bells

    • @williambulsara3356
      @williambulsara3356 Před 5 lety +1

      Fabrício Tavares de Moraes 🌠

    • @GoldcoastSurfCam
      @GoldcoastSurfCam Před 2 lety +1

      Beautiful

    • @Bang-bangBart
      @Bang-bangBart Před 2 lety +3

      You very casually threw out some poetry very very nice 👍

  • @justlilyanne
    @justlilyanne Před 7 lety +18

    Nobel Prize for Leonard Cohen!

  • @MegaFount
    @MegaFount Před 8 měsíci +6

    Hineni, in Hebrew means, here I am. It is the response Abraham gives when God calls on him to sacrifice his son Isaac.

  • @TheRWE12
    @TheRWE12 Před 2 lety +30

    You Want It Darker - is perhaps the best late-career album ever made by an artist. Stirring, melodic and important.

  • @sturmraist50
    @sturmraist50 Před 7 lety +16

    Godspeed, maestro. You knew you'd be joining Marianne soon. And you left us with this final word. Thank you, Leonard.

  • @Herbiemassop
    @Herbiemassop Před 7 lety +512

    Dear Leonard,
    The first time you came to my attention was in the 1960s during an English lesson, when your poems were put up as an example of modern poetry in the English language. Later a friend played one of your albums and since then hardly a day has gone by that I have not listened to at least one of your tracks. Many people think your music is dark or depressing. But during times of depression and during long nights when sleep eluded, you have kept me company and lifted my spirits. For over fifty years, you have been the one constant, the soundtrack of my life. And now that you have joined your muse in that big concert hall of fame, I cannot be sad because your soul lives on in the music that keeps playing as an accompaniment to my life. Sleep well my friend.

    • @claraovejero3559
      @claraovejero3559 Před 7 lety +14

      Beautifully said Herman. I feel very much the same.

    • @Okamiobidala
      @Okamiobidala Před 4 lety +9

      Thank you for writing this for him x I feel similarly that this man is immortal x and he has accompanied me through the happiest moments and the saddest x

    • @coryavila01
      @coryavila01 Před 4 lety +6

      Beautifully said! I enjoy reading people's stories, or in this case, more of an homage. Bless you and thank you for sharing.

    • @elliotstannard5621
      @elliotstannard5621 Před 4 lety +5

      "Hineni hineni... I'm ready my lord."

    • @galabrielh
      @galabrielh Před 4 lety +4

      Thats beautiful

  • @rb2157
    @rb2157 Před 3 lety +18

    This is like a musical hug from someone who'll never tell you that it's not really that bad, and sometimes that's what you need.

  • @ailaranta2606
    @ailaranta2606 Před 9 měsíci +6

    These are not 'songs', his every poem is a heavenly Masterpiece in music. And I don't simply listen but get overwhelmed with joy and love.

  • @MultiPhillygirl
    @MultiPhillygirl Před 7 lety +16

    Still my favourite Poet and song man. From 1967!

  • @DonBonin
    @DonBonin Před 7 lety +22

    RIP. My Canadian heart is so much bigger for having loved you.

  • @askingforthemoon
    @askingforthemoon Před 21 dnem +1

    The choral background is mesmerising. This song got a soul

  • @pbunting5143
    @pbunting5143 Před 6 měsíci +3

    I love Cohen's conversations with God

  • @bearh8956
    @bearh8956 Před 7 lety +221

    I grew up with Leonard.... can't believe so many younger fans have tuned in to this unique Canadian musical icon. His music is relevant for 3 generations!!!

    • @rudolftrost3534
      @rudolftrost3534 Před 3 lety +6

      And it will be for many more.

    • @violetv4412
      @violetv4412 Před rokem +4

      Just discovered his music today im canadian and never knew about him til today Im 34

    • @Speaking4lines
      @Speaking4lines Před rokem +1

      literally just hearing this full song and man I'm blown away a bit speechless actually

    • @georgiajanvier5118
      @georgiajanvier5118 Před rokem +1

      and more

    • @kathleensalazar5222
      @kathleensalazar5222 Před rokem

      ​@georgia janvier this is a song 🎵 that helps me to wanna live when zi don't aft3er special 2 animals were stolen from me.... jelos me deepky@ plsy this song when I go to b at oeace@ what a great muscian & piet what a pleasure to have this special song ! RIP Leonard ❤❤❤❤bless u for your gifts 🎁 ❤❤❤❤❤😂 peace ✌️ be with u

  • @aharon59
    @aharon59 Před 7 lety +150

    I can't stop listening to this song. It touches me in a way nothing else I've heard in years comes close to . I have to have this album.

    • @TheRealBarbDwyer
      @TheRealBarbDwyer Před 7 lety

      Me too. Or, me three. Yeah. Me.

    • @RobinHolland
      @RobinHolland Před 7 lety

      Same for me.

    • @TheRealBarbDwyer
      @TheRealBarbDwyer Před 7 lety +2

      Robin Holland Hineni. Has *got* to be the most powerful word I've ever heard. I just keep listening.

    • @RobinHolland
      @RobinHolland Před 7 lety +1

      +TheRealBarbDwyer I totally agree. Have been thinking about that word and all the implications.

    • @TheRealBarbDwyer
      @TheRealBarbDwyer Před 7 lety

      It *feels* the same as 'hokka-hey'.

  • @enigma3834
    @enigma3834 Před 5 lety +229

    "A million candles for a love that never came"
    "You want it darker"
    "We killed a flame"
    Damn......I feel this so much

    • @hanjuabeatin8835
      @hanjuabeatin8835 Před 3 lety +2

      Help not love

    • @Bloodsport0176
      @Bloodsport0176 Před 3 lety

      @@hanjuabeatin8835 Did u even listen to the whole song? 2:50 go check it !

    • @wizardo9226
      @wizardo9226 Před 3 lety

      *the flame

    • @tfoster1869
      @tfoster1869 Před 2 lety

      This song can mean so mannnnyyyy things. What is dark and still pure?

  • @--Dipanshu--
    @--Dipanshu-- Před 3 lety +5

    "I am ready my lord"
    Yup... He was indeed.

  • @briankelly85
    @briankelly85 Před 7 lety +42

    Do not stand at my gave and weep
    I am not there,
    I do not sleep.
    I am a thousand winds that blow.
    I am the diamond glints on snow.I am the sunlight
    On the ripened grain.
    I am the gentle autumn’s rain.When you awaken in the morning hush,
    I am the swift uplifting rushof quiet birds in circled flight.
    I am the soft stars that shine at night.Do not stand at my grave and cry.
    I am not there.
    I did not die.My Spirit is still alive…

  • @RemusNeo
    @RemusNeo Před 7 lety +729

    "I am ready my lord."

    • @roberttuiten8858
      @roberttuiten8858 Před 6 lety +10

      iam not!!!

    • @amicable5237
      @amicable5237 Před 6 lety +14

      Edgy twelve-year-old alert!

    • @walkwithus9894
      @walkwithus9894 Před 6 lety +11

      It has been one year already, and it is the first time, i`m listening to this song. It is hard to describe, how much i love everything, Leonard Cohen has done. And that is the reason, why i was not ready to hear his last album, knowing, that there will be nothing more. I thought, i would cry. And now i`m not crying. Feeling, as if everything inside me was shaking. I know, he WAS ready. I`m still not.

    • @otto4983
      @otto4983 Před 6 lety +7

      We are never ready... well... except for Leonard... he was born ready...

    • @karolswirniak
      @karolswirniak Před 6 lety +8

      hineni, hineni

  • @ninthfloor33020
    @ninthfloor33020 Před 10 měsíci +6

    “Billions” brought me here.. season 3 episode 3. Anyone else? RIP L.C. 🙏🏼

    • @boudicca9807
      @boudicca9807 Před 10 měsíci

      Yes, me too! Only a couple of weeks ago.

  • @michel3691
    @michel3691 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I just found this song from 'Black Earth Rising'. I have been in the dark about this artist. The light is now on.

  • @maartenvanhoven1096
    @maartenvanhoven1096 Před 7 lety +423

    Eternity
    She said: "Leonard Cohen is dead."
    I said: "Who is Leonard Cohen?"
    She played his music
    and cried.
    For her Leonard Cohen had just died,
    for me
    he had just been born.
    Rodaan Al Galidi
    (translated from Dutch)

  • @cloglighter
    @cloglighter Před 7 lety +54

    What an amazing way to say "Good bye"

  • @triyaginait9474
    @triyaginait9474 Před 6 lety +21

    ..память ему Вечная!
    спи с миром! мы помним тебя и любим!

  • @oldpossum
    @oldpossum Před 7 lety +24

    R.I.P. Leonard Cohen.
    Thank you for your music, for a part of my life.

  • @sturmraist50
    @sturmraist50 Před 7 lety +66

    The first recorded word we ever heard from Leonard was "Suzanne." The last recorded word we heard was "mine."

  • @reubenjames7779
    @reubenjames7779 Před 4 lety +27

    My lone regret is that I have but one "thumbs up" to give to this masterpiece,

  • @ssilva872
    @ssilva872 Před rokem +2

    I just finished the finale of The Patient and had to come here.
    Great song and the mini-series was fine too.

  • @JackTR21
    @JackTR21 Před 7 lety +147

    I get chills and tears every time I hear the line "I'm ready my Lord." Cohen delivered it with such conviction.

    • @MadonnaGrogan
      @MadonnaGrogan Před 6 měsíci +1

      My dad said this before he died,precious

  • @agolzad
    @agolzad Před 7 lety +16

    You said you were ready...... 🙁
    rest in peace Leonard. You are irreplaceable in every way.

  • @donmarz7030
    @donmarz7030 Před 10 měsíci +6

    Assassin's creed origin made me love this song.

  • @andreasschweiger6155
    @andreasschweiger6155 Před 4 měsíci +3

    This will never die, Never be forgotten. ❤

  • @not2tees
    @not2tees Před 7 lety +286

    “As I write this I’m thinking of my father’s unique blend of self-deprecation and dignity, his approachable elegance, his charisma without audacity, his old-world gentlemanliness and the hand-forged tower of his work.” - Adam Cohen, on his father's death.

  • @fieldsofgolification
    @fieldsofgolification Před 7 lety +11

    Genius artist. Once in a generation the gods send one.

  • @davecraft61
    @davecraft61 Před 8 měsíci +2

    What a poet.

  • @pi4630
    @pi4630 Před 3 lety +5

    His words, his voice, his music: my therapy.

  • @BeaverVision
    @BeaverVision Před 7 lety +12

    And darker it has become. R.I.P. Leonard Cohen

  • @humbertogatica6420
    @humbertogatica6420 Před 7 lety +21

    Hineni, hineni: I am ready my Lord, RIP Leonard Cohen, sir

  • @marke7462
    @marke7462 Před rokem +6

    You will forever be missed and forever be remembered.
    You are Leonard Cohen and you were among the greatest of song writers.
    You stand tall in the tower of song.
    May your verse and voice live forever.

  • @nickwilmore7839
    @nickwilmore7839 Před 3 lety +8

    Great singer poet and humanist.Gone but not forgotten.

  • @elliegreen4738
    @elliegreen4738 Před 6 lety +112

    This is one of the best songs I've ever heard there is something seductively dark about it but maybe that is just me.
    Love the way Leonard sings, his voice is so deep and additionally it's as though he shares some of who he is with the listener.
    R.I.P. Leonard

    • @smartalek180
      @smartalek180 Před 9 měsíci +5

      Tho I'm sure there are others, I cannot think of any off the top of my head:
      A pop-star (maybe A-List, maybe just hi B-List?) from the 1960s - '70s who wasn't content to just rest on his laurels, doing endless Greatest-hits medleys to crowds of ancient fans desperately trying to keep some kind of hold on their long-faded youth... He was writing & performing some of his finest, deepest, most hypnotic, most powerful work right up to the very end. SO blessed to have had him.

  • @KMTOLEDO
    @KMTOLEDO Před 7 lety +89

    Haunting song and incredible poetry.

  • @joetorres53
    @joetorres53 Před rokem +2

    R.I.P. ❤

  • @michaelschaab3897
    @michaelschaab3897 Před 4 lety +7

    Gone three years ago today. But not forgotten. Never.

  • @toomuchrose
    @toomuchrose Před 7 lety +55

    There is a reason why Leonard Cohen can still do it at the age of 82. He has the gift that others don't. This album is a direct relation to Blackstar and The Skeleton Tree. Music that lives and communicates the human condition in a triumvirate of albums that have somehow aligned like the Earth, Moon and Sun in a mysterious and beautiful way. Fabulous stuff Leonard.

    • @ecetan1714
      @ecetan1714 Před 7 lety

      toomuchrose

    • @bertus161057
      @bertus161057 Před 7 lety +1

      well spoken

    • @culturalfatwa
      @culturalfatwa Před 7 lety

      Beautifully put ... when 'Lenny' was asked about Bob's Nobel prize he put it more or less like this...they put a marker on mount everest to state it was the tallest mountain in the world? Class act...

    • @culturalfatwa
      @culturalfatwa Před 7 lety

      ...interview pay walled unfortunately but if you have the access...www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/leonard-cohen-hey-thats-some-way-to-say-goodbye-00tc2sx9n

    • @culturalfatwa
      @culturalfatwa Před 7 lety

      ...interview pay walled unfortunately but if you have the access...www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/culture/leonard-cohen-hey-thats-some-way-to-say-goodbye-00tc2sx9n

  • @hackedstalked6371
    @hackedstalked6371 Před 7 lety +18

    THANK YOU MR.COHEN!!
    THANK YOU...

  • @rsmor48
    @rsmor48 Před 3 lety +4

    50 years ago next month, I "courted " my wife to this man's music.
    God, I miss him.

  • @isaacalvarado6921
    @isaacalvarado6921 Před 3 lety +6

    Besides the haunting melody and the amazing lyrics, Leonard Cohen's grizzly tone makes this song.

  • @sherhak
    @sherhak Před 7 lety +10

    it's so much darker since your flame went out. i love you leonard cohen. RIP

  • @richardcourchene7477
    @richardcourchene7477 Před 7 lety +9

    A true Canadian legend. RIP. He will be truly missed.

  • @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH

    A song for our time.

  • @Charlesebrown40
    @Charlesebrown40 Před 5 lety +4

    Who is ready to say with the Prophet Isaiah: "Here am I, send me."

  • @DusanMBasa
    @DusanMBasa Před 7 lety +9

    R.I.P. Mr. Cohen, one of the best poets and songwriters in history of music, your songs will live forever. Thank you!

  • @camelsheit_on_the_walls446
    @camelsheit_on_the_walls446 Před 7 lety +46

    Leonard saw it coming: You want it darker. . And he took his leave, wanting no part in it.
    Heading towards the light now the lucky fellow, to meet dear ones.
    Mr. Cohen, can you please from that Higher vantage point make a few kracks in the shell trapping us earthbound, so that some light may reach us, we need it .
    Thank you for all Lots of Love

  • @hedikamoun4407
    @hedikamoun4407 Před 2 lety +14

    A music full of wisdom, spiritual and infinite...great Leonard

  • @AnyoneCanSee
    @AnyoneCanSee Před rokem +16

    This is an astonishing song with lyrics as powerful as anything ever written.
    Hineni means "here I am" in Hebrew.
    From the Time of Israel:
    "The song is an eerie, minimalist rumination with strong religious elements in the lyrics. At the end of the chorus, Cohen sings “Hineni, hineni; I’m ready, my lord.” Hineni is Hebrew for “here I am,” and is the response Abraham gives when God calls on him to sacrifice his son Isaac. It is also the name of a prayer of preparation and humility, addressed to God, chanted by the cantor on Rosh Hashanah."

    • @berenicegalilea
      @berenicegalilea Před rokem +1

      Isaiah 6,8 The Lord asks: “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” Isaiah’s response was to volunteer for service: “Here am I; send me” (translation KJV).
      Exodus 3,4 Moses' response of 'hineni' 'here I am' indicates that he is ready to hear and obey, again, not knowing what is about to be asked of him.
      Exodus 3,14 This was the name God gave himself when he first communicated with Moses. “God replied, 'I am who am'. Then he added, 'This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you.
      1 Samuel 3,4 Then the LORD called Samuel. And he answered, “Here I am!”
      John 8,58 Jesus in response to his statement in John 8,58 "Before Abraham was, I AM". 🙏

    • @coffeehugger
      @coffeehugger Před rokem

      God bless it.

    • @ahoj1918
      @ahoj1918 Před rokem +3

      thank you! I didn't know what hineni meant

  • @normwhalen6862
    @normwhalen6862 Před 7 lety +12

    Just when you think there's nowhere else left to go, he takes you there

    • @88l64
      @88l64 Před 11 měsíci

      Exactly

  • @nancym.fuller3098
    @nancym.fuller3098 Před 7 lety +80

    RIP Leonard Cohen, badass till the end.

  • @barb4259
    @barb4259 Před rokem +2

    His music is powerful because the Ego may not always understand the lyrics but the subconscious/higher spirited self knows truth. We came to this earth to experience duality and separation from eternal love. Something (not wholly human) had to provide that experience, in order to" kill the flame" of love/spirit. The ego feels victimized, the spirit knows it gave "permission".

  • @EjRidenhour
    @EjRidenhour Před rokem +3

    Such a vibe gives creepy but warrior vibes

  • @markgamble7699
    @markgamble7699 Před 7 lety +7

    R.I.P. Leonard... May the angels carry you over to the light...

  • @MultiDisasters
    @MultiDisasters Před 7 lety +104

    This brings me back to January and listening to Blackstar after Bowie's death.
    Another goodbye this year...
    "I'm ready, my Lord".

  • @phyllishoffman9144
    @phyllishoffman9144 Před 6 lety +3

    This gentle, fragile man has my heart at the age 82 - there will never be an artist like him.

  • @allthatjazz9000
    @allthatjazz9000 Před 2 lety +1

    🔥af voice 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @dkv1201
    @dkv1201 Před 7 lety +78

    Creative people transcend death.. Their work immortalises them...

    • @theresaamick9797
      @theresaamick9797 Před 5 lety

      Dev Kumar still, it's not much consolation due to inability to believe in anything other than nonexistence.

    • @marieschwarz6185
      @marieschwarz6185 Před 5 lety

      Oui, Monsieur COHEN est toujours présent...tant ses textes, ses musiques, son HUMANITÉ , sa vision du monde étaient JUSTES.

    • @dennisdavey1590
      @dennisdavey1590 Před 3 lety

      Wow you know 4 Ever and ever zenden1948@gmail.com

    • @dennisdavey1590
      @dennisdavey1590 Před 3 lety

      Wow you know. So far so good. Ever and ever zenden1948@gmail.com

  • @happygraveart
    @happygraveart Před 7 lety +154

    Goodbye old friend. You never knew me but without you their would be no me.

  • @B0NK3RSHD
    @B0NK3RSHD Před 5 lety +74

    Here from The Last Watch
    RIP Len!

    • @pjm48
      @pjm48 Před 5 lety

      Here from Black Earth Rising

    • @Naxatthedoor
      @Naxatthedoor Před 4 lety

      If It Works here from assassins creed origins 😅

    • @pawanissar9510
      @pawanissar9510 Před 4 lety

      Billions got me here

  • @DerekLyons
    @DerekLyons Před 4 lety +2

    Shalom always Mr Cohen RIP

  • @quoe1
    @quoe1 Před 7 lety +10

    Adieu Leonard. Thank you.

  • @robquesada9334
    @robquesada9334 Před 7 lety +5

    Rest in peace, Leonard. What a way to say goodbye.

  • @nedmerrill5705
    @nedmerrill5705 Před 4 lety +6

    He made himself ready, with this song. Godspeed, Mr. Cohen.

  • @laszlovz
    @laszlovz Před 6 lety +6

    The bass line is amazing

  • @ThatsWhenItkickedin
    @ThatsWhenItkickedin Před 7 lety +10

    im an old hippie. leonard is better than ever. the lyrics are chilling. to me, it is his conversation with god, and god's need for more human suffering. he says in hebrew at the end ''im ready''

  • @dbcampbell8739
    @dbcampbell8739 Před 7 lety +16

    Hineni: "Here I am Lord, I am ready"

  • @haydenisaac3030
    @haydenisaac3030 Před 3 lety +8

    He had something special. Unfortunately I was never able to see him perform live. A great lyricist with a really amazing ability to communicate his emotions through his voice and music

  • @CosmicGhostWolf
    @CosmicGhostWolf Před 3 lety +1

    rest well, my little fire bear

  • @mikebatt1000
    @mikebatt1000 Před 7 lety +31

    So sad...........but he had such a full life. I am so glad I discovered him early in my life and was privileged to enjoy this awesomely talented musician and poet. I will have many private Leonard Cohen "concerts" on my hi fi! Thank you for sharing your music with us Leonard - RIP!