[b]Leonard Cohen
Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.[/b]
One of my favorite lines from one of my favorite songs: youtu.be/vSk4XrhW8rM
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.
Aside from this being complete horseshit, I couldn’t agree more.
There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
And then [eventually] we come to the indignities.
It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
Why not even help them? Then let them help you.
A heavy burden lifted from my soul
I heard that love was out of my control
He heard right.
We’re in a world where there’s famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it’s very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Certainly not to the stuff that we do here.