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pjmurphy commented on Leonard Cohen's latest, 'Old Ideas,' takes the singer back to one good old idea: Melody

Commanding the stage and the fine musicians bestowed with the honour of accenting your wisdom you spill your honeyed words into our eager consciousness serenely smiling like a holy man In your seventy-fifth year you sing your psalms and stories with the voice of a God but soothing now no questions asked but an acceptance that there are no answers You were the crutch, the mainstay of my thoughtful youth a comforting validation that someone more austere than I could strip away veneer and see the sewers and the sunsets the sinner and the sainted and cosset them in blankets of words rendering them timeless Thank you, Leonard.

Posted on February 1st, 2012 10:54pm