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Meaning of Leonard Cohen Songs

Leonard Cohen. You Want It Darker.

by Bernard O'Keeffe

It is easy, and tempting, to see the eighty-two-year-old Leonard Cohen’s magnificent fourteenth album as a farewell. As is often the case with Cohen, though, it is not quite that simple. ‘You Want It Darker’ may seem to be the singer’s farewell to his life, his work, to us, but throughout the album the nature … Read more

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