Dissociated Thoughts

2/13/22 - Leonard Cohen

2/13/2022

I decided that I would do some love songs over the next few days. This first one is being sung by Leonard Cohen.

Cohen was a poet and novelist as well as a singer-songwriter; sometimes hailed as the Canadian Dylan. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was also invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honor. And in 2011, he received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize. His music career lasted from 1967 until his death in November 2016. The guy was just awesome and had an amazing and moving voice. The song I chose for today is Dance Me to the End of Love, which was on the Various Positions album. It's been in my head all day. I hope you like it.

Lyrics for your perusing pleasure: ▼

Dance Me to the End of Love
Songwriters: Leonard Cohen

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love