Leonard Cohen-suzanne

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Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

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Leonard Cohen-suzanne

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  • best song ever the ...

    best song ever the lyrics are out of this world it tells a good story

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  • very good leonard!

    very good leonard!

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  • Hmm, yes:D

    Hmm, yes:D

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  • Are you also ...

    Are you also half-crazy!? ;-)

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  • My name is Suzanne:D

    My name is Suzanne:D

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  • lol.yeah he said ...

    lol.yeah he said hed treasure it always

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  • So Leonard Cohen ...

    So Leonard Cohen has your dads autograph?

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  • song speaks to the ...

    song speaks to the soul. thanks for posting

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  • Agree with you, ...

    Agree with you, though I'd add a lover to share it with... both the chocolate and the song ;)

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  • if this song was ...

    if this song was food, it would be dark chocolate.. made to melt slowly in your mouth

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  • Thats my name!! lol

    Thats my name!! lol

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  • Thank U

    Thank U

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  • my dad met him in ...

    my dad met him in dublin on saturday.he was really decent took the time to sign an autograph.

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  • A wonderful piece ...

    A wonderful piece of poetry. Among the many that incorparate the "essential cohen". Personally,'Famous Blue Raincoat' is my Favourite song, but hey....

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  • such a wonderful ...

    such a wonderful song,it puts me in a peaceful trance like i'm walkign alone on a windy fall day

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  • oh wow! interesting ...

    oh wow! interesting piece; thanks!

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  • I remember ...

    I remember listening to this song before combat assaults 69-70 in I corp(Rattler10).

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  • manifested.I bumped ...

    manifested.I bumped into her one evening, and she invited me down
    to her place near the river. She had a loft, at a time when lofts
    were... the word wasn't used. She had a space in a warehouse down
    there, and she invited me down, and I went with her, and she served
    me Constant Comment tea, which has little bits of oranges in it. And
    the boats were going by, and I touched her perfect body with my mind,
    because there was no other opportunity.

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  • at the time, ...

    at the time, physically stunning, both of them, a handsome man
    and woman, everyone was in love with Suzanne Vaillancourt,
    and every woman was in love with Armand Vaillancourt. But
    there was no... well, there was thought, but there was no
    possibility, one would not allow oneself to think of toiling
    at the seduction of Armand Vaillancourt's wife. First of all
    he was a friend, and second of all as a couple they were inviolate,
    you just didn't intrude into that kind of shared glory that they

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  • I knew that there ...

    I knew that there was
    a harbour, I knew that there was Our Lady of the Harbour,
    which was the virgin on the church which stretched out her
    arms towards the seamen, and you can climb up to the tower
    and look out over the river, so the song came from that
    vision, from that view of the river. At a certain point,
    I bumped into Suzanne Vaillancourt, who was the wife of
    a friend of mine, they were a stunning couple around Montreal

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  • Suzanne was a ...

    Suzanne was a person:

    In a 1994 BBC Radio Interview Cohen said:
    "The song was begun, and the chord pattern
    was developed, before a woman's name entered
    the song. And I knew it was a song about Montreal,
    it seemed to come out of that landscape that I loved
    very much in Montreal, which was the harbour, and the
    waterfront, and the sailors' church there, called Notre
    Dame de Bon Secour, which stood out over the river, and I
    knew that there're ships going by,

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  • just beautiful

    just beautiful

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  • I believe "Suzanne" ...

    I believe "Suzanne" was not a woman, but a ship.

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  • Indeed... indeed

    Indeed... indeed

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  • Oh, Gold! Gold of ...

    Oh, Gold! Gold of my own inner being. When will you show yourself to me again? I have missed you!

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