Leonard Cohen - On the Level (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2016
- Leonard Cohen - On The Level (Official Audio)
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Lyrics:
I knew that it was wrong
I didn't have a doubt
I was dying to get back home
And you were starting out
I said I best be moving on
You said we have all day
You smiled at me like I was young
It took my breath away
Your crazy fragrance all around
Your secrets all in view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel, too
They oughta give my heart a medal
For letting go of you (For letting go of you)
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel, too
Now I'm living in this temple
Where they tell you what to do
I'm old and I've had to settle
On a different point of view
I was fighting with temptation
But I didn't want to win
A man like me don't like to see
Temptation caving in
Your crazy fragrance all around
Your secrets in my view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel, too
They oughta give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel, too
They oughta give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel, too
Almost 50 years after The Songs Of Leonard Cohen his genius leaves us a priceless farewell album and departs for stranger shores. Goodbye Mr Cohen, I fell in love with your songs the first time I heard them in 1967. I am going to miss you.
Damn Sir, you have to witnessed a lot of strange things on this world. Good that Cohen were with you. I just listened to Cohen couple days ago for the very first time. Now I have to discover a lot. :)
You had never heard the Hallelujah Chorus?
George Pope
Yes sure, but just once in the movie Watchmen.
Then you are in for an absolute treat, such a body of work lies waiting for you to discover, all of it wonderful..
Same here.
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.
I knew that it was wrong
I didn't have a doubt
I was dying to get back home
And you were starting out
I said I best be moving on
You said, we have all day
You smiled at me like I was young it
Took my breath away
Your crazy fragrance all around
Your secrets all in view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
Now I'm living in this temple
Where they tell you what to do
I'm old and I've had to settle
On a different point of view
I was fighting with temptation
But I didn't want to win
A man like me don't like to see
Temptation caving in
Your crazy fragrance all around
Your secrets all in view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
I discovered this album in 2021 and I’m addicted
Me too
2016 What a year. There must be some great concerts in heaven.
heaven might be having a party, but we're pretty screwed
I sure hope so!
I have been a fan of Cohen since the 1960's, and saw him in concert only a few years ago. He had the audience in the palm of his hand. His lyrics and most of his music are the best. The wisest singer around. Leonard, you were much loved and will be sorely missed
john hanson
I've seen him in London cocert coming from Switzerland, in 2013.
What a faboulus evening !
I was fortunate to see him in Perth years ago as a taxi driver waiting for clients. Thanks to the security guy for letting me in to get closer to the stage. I swore l would attend his next concert. Never happened. That was my first and last Cohen concert. Rip.
You saved the best for the last CD! Thank your for a life time of inspirational music and poetry. RIP
The backing vocals are divine,so so beautiful.
Thank you Leonard Cohen.
I've only known Leonard Cohen just recently. His music is like warm honey. Damn good music!
You should listen to his early stuff. Absolute genius lyrics.
I first heard him in 1970. Still listen about weekly.
R.I.P. Leonard Cohen. You've warmed my soul with your songs and poems
R.I.P. Leonard Cohen. Thank you & you will never be forgotten. You are Eternal
When he sings "I'd best be moving, you said we have all day, you smiled at me like I was young, it took my breath away" I am just overwhelmed and tears start 🌟🌟
THE CRAZY THING HES NOT EVEN ACTUALLY SINGING BUT I LIKE IT SO MUCH HES MELODIC TALKING BACKGROUND SINGERS SINGING FOR HIM
My nephew says the same thing, and Leonard himself tended to agree with your analysis of his ‘singing’ 😊
I was frightened with temptation, but I didn't want to win. A man like me don't like to see temptation caving in. 💕
As always so truthful, Leonard you're my cruelest biographer x
I'm so sorry! I will never forget your songs, your music..., your great personallity, the Concert in der Waldbühne in Berlin, a few years ago!
You gave me so much good feelings in my live. I'll always keep it in my heart!
Thank you!!!
I feel so much love for you, because you gave me and the hole world the BEST and ''Halleleja'', one of the greatest songs and...!
Now sleep deep and well, Leonard Cohen! R.I.P.!
every word breaks my heart
Heard three songs so far and I love them all!
Discovered back in the days on PBS. You gave all you had as a best friend could. Daily I enjoy all your songs, interviews, etc. Loved the way you spoked, and I sure would missed any news songs; although, what you left for us is wonderful. Will continue to to listen to you forever, all in my memory. Let us know in our dreams how it is up higher level...bye, love you always..
Thank you master Cohen. I got yr message, clear n loud.
I am in tears but feel forever loved by Leonard's music and words.
with you girl! love him so much, so grateful'
A travelling companion throughout my life. Cannot bear this reality - I am looking for the crack ' that's where the light gets in"
The light is that he was able to die as he would have liked, without suffering too much.
Li Lise ... The light is what he left, the word that illuminates and soothes .. and the melodies.. Leonar Cohen will live for ever, as he said in his last public appearance,..
I hear you....
He was not able to die without suffering too much, he had cancer and pain that was almost not bearable.
I have reached the time in my life where I am dealing with my own mortality. I thought that I would write my own obituary, and then Cohen’s album came out. Screw it! Just play this album at my memorial service. It way bring a couple of tears to some of my acquaintances, and smiles to my close friends.
What a wonderful present! Thank you, Leonard!
He knew he was dying and wanted to leave us another part of himself and his music...RIP
As David did, the two differnt but indifferent, GIANTS!!!
The very best ‘I’m dying’ album I have ever heard. RIP LC ❤️
I don't know if I'm really morose or what but your comment made me lol which is not easy to do. And yes, I agree...
I'm so sorry, you were my poet, your music was unique
We will miss you, but your music and words will always be with us
RIP ......my favorite since the beginning...
Ron Keas
Thank You Very Much Mr.Leonard Cohen.Beautiful.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
R.I.P. master
Good Gravy Leonard, you said these things well! At first I thought 'On the Level' was about the angel I'm walkin away from now cuz of ol Beelzebub swirlin bout but no, there were a few, truth tell.
Yup, it's strange to be old and live in an unimagined temple, ain't it? In this life, for how many of us did you take the hit?
This old world will need you yet when Judah's son comes riding and the great shofar does blow! Shalom and Blessings old Cohen, you were more of a priest and Levite than we did know!
Sweet Rest Beloved One!
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth. Ecc. 7:1
You nailed it brother!
What about his frequent breath intakes? After watching his press conference meeting, I realised it's got to do with his physical conditions....But in the song it just matches the line: "You smiled to me like I was young, and took my breath away". And, stroke of genius, the backup chorus picks it up from there and turns it into breath intakes of emotion and delight...
Now he's playing for the angels too. thank you Leonard, for your enduring graciousness.
Rest in peace dear greatfully Leonard Cohen... Your Songs will Fly with you over the Clouds .... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ you was the Smaragd between all musicians... 😢
Woke up with this song stuck in my head after years of not hearing it
YOUR MUSIC, YOUR SONG`s, FOREVER REMAIN IN MY HEART ♥♥♥
LEONARD COHEN ♥♥♥
Genius of this man. 💙💙
The accompaniment is so subtle and flawless and his voice just got better and better with age ....
How? How can this be gone????
farewell Leonard you have left a legacy of soul poetry...thank you!
I love this man and his music
Dont leave the table. Please!
Die Musik von niemand anderem klang oder hat sich so angefühlt wie seine. Eine magische Stimme ist verstummt.
Leonard knew how to pick his background vokalists. Sooo beautiful
.............they ought to give my heart a medal for letting go of you. i turned my back on the Devil turned my back on the Angel too.....
I used to hate your music but learned to love it. Very sad day today saw you in Auckland in 2013 RIP
I can't ever listen to this one just once
Me too, just to hear his teasing voice
I can’t believe 91 people gave this magnificent song a thumbs-down. Sad really 💖
What an album...
This tune just explode in multidimensional terms superb
Thank you for allowing this album to be posted.
I love you Leonard
When I hear “you smiled at me like I was young it took my breath away” I just cry 😢 melts my heart 💔
me too
' I was fighting with temptation but I didn't wana win, cos a guy like me doesn't like to see temptation caving in '
RIP. Leonard, My Dear Friend. You will always be loved & remembered by the world.
what a wonderful song!!!
RIP and thank you !
This song reminds me of someone I miss. 💔
"I was fighting with temptation
But I didn't want to win
A man like me don't like to see
Temptation caving in"
Sums up his life, I guess; in the end, a girls's beauty was still more important than enlightenment and inner peace.
Marvelous!
Makes me cry every time I hear it. Why did you leave us, why did you leave 😢😘
I hope you live 300 years and more.
i hope i am here to listen to him as well
Doh.
It wasn't meant to be...
Musical genius Mr.Cohen, I loved his last album! His music will live on forever.
"You smiled at me like I was young... it took my breath away...." Is this not a universal desire?
Brilliant!
Goodbye LEO ! Forever you and your music be with us,..I for one started from very early age my mom playing your awesome music.
my heart is bleeding so badly..I miss you Leonard!!! 💔
Wish I could "like' this more than once.
As ever superlatives for Leonard Cohen!! The Album is beautiful - another masterpiece form the Master of words.
Heel mooi..... we zullen uw missen mr. Leonard Cohen....R.I.P.....
RIP Sir Shalom ❤x
amazing songs 1 after the other...g.l.:)
This song leaves me weak. Those beautiful lyrics, exquisitely expressed. So bittersweet....
The David Bowie method of using what time you have to make a nice little death-themed album before you go. Wraps up a career nicely.
Christian Gasior I was far from home the night before we learned that Bowie was dead. I was alone, lonely in a foreign place and unknown to me then, I was ill. As I fell asleep I had Black Star “I can’t give it all away” on repeat and a strong sense of foreboding was in me as I slept, badly. I woke to my lovely wife calling me, in tears. She didn’t want me finding out casually in a headline.
I can’t listen to Black Star, but anything by Leonard Cohen is good.
@@mrtriple2414 People are far too invested in the lives of the manufactured "friends" (total strangers) we call "celebrities". One of the sicknesses of our culture: manufactured attachments via manipulated emotions to artificial friends/ lovers/ leaders/ idols. I know people who wept hysterically when Bowie (by no means a tragic figure, or a man in his prime) died. What will they do, then, when their actual parents/ friends die... the same thing? A sense of proportion is the last thing we can count on these days.
Your music,Your song Forever remain my heart.Thanks for everything.Goodbye Leonard.
Dziekuje ,ze moglam w swym zyciu spotkac Cie w 2013 r wAustralii. Zegnaj !
HE WILL BE MISSED!!11111111111111111111
absolute beauty!!!
Wonderful artist. Thanks so much!
My favourite track on the album at the moment.
My second favourite, probably. "Steer your way" is up there, for me!
My favourite too. Love this one to pieces.
I adore this album, every track. Treaty is probably my favourite
I'm really liking "Leaving the Table". Makes me cry.
Classical Music11 ❤
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A deserved medal.
his voice is so deep, his lyric is wisdom
Merci monsieur Cohen
This beautiful Mr.Cohen!
cu muzica, versurile si vocea ta..., atat de tandre, de calde, de pline de iubire si bucurie de a trai, leonard, mi-ai imbogatit sufletul!
power tune all da way. answer 2 a pray
Fantastic album.
I still love you
We miss you Lenny
Legenden sterben nie.
Our favorite, we will missed Leonard Cohen, but have the best memories....
Just amazing
Always missed but never forgotten
Incredible...masterpiece.
What a butiful album good bless leonard ❤.
This is actually, IMO, his best album since The Future
beautiful. thank you so much! ×
always amazing!!! you're the very best Leonard.
God's voice will miss us for ever ... Tanks you...... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
We Love You Leonard , You Will Never Be Forgotten , You Are Forever . XXX
Jeeze this album is so powerful, RIP Sir Cohen
❤❤❤❤Super