Leonard Cohen’s profound ‘Thanks For The Dance’ is a posthumous grace note. Read our review
. In her version of the waltz, lines were sung in first person in a brightly wistful survivor’s melancholy, suggesting a complicated relationship that’s already weathered the worst. Here, with backing vocals by another of Cohen’s old flames, Jennifer Warnes, plus Leslie, Cohen reframes the song into a farewell, both to his audience and this mortal coil.
“It’s Torn” recalls the central image of the Cohen touchstone “Anthem” in a trembling voice over stately piano. “Come gather the pieces all scattered and lost,” he incants, noting “The lie in what’s holy, the light in what’s not.” The lines are delivered at a funereal tempo, fitting for a song that conjures the loss of a beloved along with Cohen’s own mortality.
Ultimately, the most haunting songs are the shortest. “Listen to the Hummingbird” matches Adam Cohen’s piano to a soundbite of his father reciting a poem just weeks before he passed, at a promotional event for. Addressing sound, mindfulness, nature and God , Leonard Cohen instructs the listener to attend to the world, not his words. “The Goal,” similarly, is less a song than a poetic recitation set to music.
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