Last Year's Man, by Leonard Cohen;, Decode, please Options

[George Hayduke]

Last Year's Man
By Leonard Cohen

The rain falls down on last year's man,
that's a jew's harp on the table,
that's a crayon in his hand.
And the corners of the blueprint are ruined since they rolled
far past the stems of thumbtacks
that still throw shadows on the wood.
And the skylight is like skin for a drum I'll never mend
and all the rain falls down amen
on the works of last year's man.
I met a lady, she was playing with her soldiers in the dark
oh one by one she had to tell them
that her name was Joan of Arc.
I was in that army, yes I stayed a little while;
I want to thank you, Joan of Arc,
for treating me so well.
And though I wear a uniform I was not born to fight;
all these wounded boys you lie beside,
goodnight, my friends, goodnight.

I came upon a wedding that old families had contrived;
Bethlehem the bridegroom,
Babylon the bride.
Great Babylon was naked, oh she stood there trembling for me,
and Bethlehem inflamed us both
like the shy one at some orgy.
And when we fell together all our flesh was like a veil
that I had to draw aside to see
the serpent eat its tail.

Some women wait for Jesus, and some women wait for Cain
so I hang upon my altar
and I hoist my axe again.
And I take the one who finds me back to where it all began
when Jesus was the honeymoon
and Cain was just the man.
And we read from pleasant Bibles that are bound in blood and skin
that the wilderness is gathering
all its children back again.

The rain falls down on last year's man,
an hour has gone by
and he has not moved his hand.
But everything will happen if he only gives the word;
the lovers will rise up
and the mountains touch the ground.
But the skylight is like skin for a drum I'll never mend
and all the rain falls down amen
on the works of last year's man.

This post has been edited by George Hayduke: Mar 12 2008, 02:48 PM

[lunk]

Sure, but I need some candles and a bottle of wine first.

Man, Leonard Cohen is so clever.
He once got a government grant to write poetry, and with that, rented a private Greek island, and lived there for six months!
Later claiming that it was the most productive time of his life.

I couldn't hold a candle to that intellect.

"There's a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in"


cheers, lunk

[lunk]

Cohen=cane=priest according to Alan Watt.

http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum//index....showtopic=11552

I prefer red.

[Carl Bank]

Ahem... talking 'bout Cohen: Please decode this as well:

First We Take Manhattan
by Leonard Cohen

(Radio announcer's voice)
Was die Attentäter betrifft, die in Berlin den Anschlag auf die
Deutsch-Arabische Gesellschaft verübt haben, ist die Polizei
einen Schritt weiter gekommen. Die jetzt nach dem Anschlag...

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those items that you sent me
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ready
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah remember me, I used to live for music
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin





doesn't want to be taken: Carl

(but anyway - This guy can make a guitar sing!)


EDIT: just watched it again....:
from 2:50 to 2:53 in the clip, she sings "First, we take manhattan,,,",
people are running across a street in front of... BUILDING 7 !!!
or isn't it??

[George Hayduke]

Lunk, the best I can do is a warm can of PBR. That suit you?

This post has been edited by George Hayduke: Mar 28 2008, 09:29 AM

[lunk]

Beer's good.

I read it as some sort of planned union between the heavens and a future awakened humanity that is no longer blinded by the media.
The rest seems to be reminiscing about the situation we find ourselves in today.

I'm probably way off and a way to simplistic in my analysis,

and think I have committed poetic injustice somehow.

My apologies if this is the case.

[maturin42]

I think Leonard's more abstract songs are Rorschach tests. You create the meaning from the right side of your own brain. Lots of raw material in every line.

Yes and long live the state by whoever it's made,
sir, I didn't see nothing, I was just getting laid.

I can't forget,
I can't forget,
I can't forget,
but I don't remember what".

[CocaineImportAge...]

...could the "lovers rise up".... relate to Isis and Horus!?!

[CocaineImportAge...]

..in ref` to Carl`s post!....

The monkey and the plywood violin

...well the monkey i`m tempted to relate to G.Bush!?!... but the plywood violin!?!... is all the Art in our galleries copies!?!... we have a doomsday seed vault as we know!... maybe there is a vault for the true art relics too!?!... and everyone is going around looking at copies!?!... hmmmmm!.... maybe not so daft as it sounds!?


...found this here

This post has been edited by CocaineImportAgency: Apr 25 2008, 12:38 AM