Leonard Norman Cohen byl kanadský hudebník, básník, romanopisec a kreslíř židovského původu. Již během univerzitních studií vydal v roce 1956 svoji první sbírku básní. Vedle poezie mu během šedesátých let 20. století vyšly také dva romány. První...

Píseň: So Long, Marianne

Interpret:
Leonard Cohen
Album:
Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Come over to the window, my little darling 
I'd like to try to read your palm. 
I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy 
Before I let you take me home 


Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began 
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again 


Well you know that I love to live with you 
But you make me forget so very much 
I forget to pray for the angels 
And then the angels forget to pray for us 


Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began 
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again 


We met when we were almost young 
Deep in the green lilac park 
You held on to me like I was a crucifix 
As we went kneeling through the dark 


Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began 
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again 


Your letters they all say that you're beside me now 
Then why do I feel alone? 
I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web 
Is fastening my ankle to a stone 


Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began 
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again 


For now I need your hidden love 
I'm cold as a new razor blade 
You left when I told you I was curious 
I never said that I was brave 


Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began 
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again 


Oh, you are really such a pretty one 
I see you've gone and changed your name again 
And just when I climbed this whole mountain side 
To wash my eyelids in the rain! 


Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began 
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again