Your slender verse reminded me a song by Leonard Cohen, "Love Itself", that I adore:
The light came through the window
Straight from the sun above
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of love
In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the nameless makes
A name for one like me
I'll try to say a little more
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door
Then love itself
Love itself was gone
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance
I'll try to say a little more
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door
Then love itself
Love itself was gone
Then I came back from where I'd been
My room, it looked the same
But there was nothing left between
The nameless and the name
All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance
I'll try to say a little more
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door
Then love itself
Love itself was gone
Love itself
Love itself was gone
Cohen is a poet in his own right, to be sure - so happy to have his words quoted back at me! Perhaps this song was floating somewhere at the back of my mind when I wrote this, it wouldn't be the first time :)
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And, I'm happy to hear you're fond of him, he's a gem
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I still hold that Hallelujah is the best love song ever written, simply because it has informed so many different interpretations of love - religious, romantic, sexual - over the years. Although to be honest, I do prefer the Jeff Buckley version to Cohen's!
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I agree that it’s a song of surpassing Beauty and, only recently, was introduced to Buckley version which it is difficult to listen to & not weep.
My fav Cohen is “There For You” 🙏🏼
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Oh, my! How could I even miss this conversation?!!!!!! Leonard Cohen is my love from the first sight (when I saw his writes), he's much more of a poet than a singer, we were talking about him in the poetry class once, I remember it was Guy who said "he's more of a poet" and I quoted "so long Marianne..."
But Hallelujah is a masterpiece, every time I listen to it, it opens up from a new side (maybe because it has so many verses written by Cohen and presented by him little by little in different perfomances), and I'm sure I still don't get the whole idea... The title itself is enormously meaningful! Interestingly, I've heard a girl singing it in Hebrew)
I just feel so special sharing this love with you two))))
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Glad to hear it has such a strong connection with you too :) I'd heard there was something like 80 verses in total which Cohen wrote for it? I didn't realise he performed different ones on different nights! Just seems to add to the mystery and allure of it all...
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