Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Im youre man…In the tower of song(Leonard Cohen documentary 2005)

“Te daremos un gran corazón, pero si bebes vino comenzarás a odiar al mundo,
La luna es tú hermana pero si tomas somníferos te hallarás en compañía de mujeres infelices.
Cada vez que te aferres al amor perderás un copo de nieve de tú memoria…”

Leonard Cohen

La primera canción de Leonard Cohen que escuche en mi vida fue en una película del director canadiense de orígen armenio Atom Egoyan , la película se llama” Exótica” y la canción que acompañaba un deleitoso streeptease era Everybody Knows

Ante un par de canciones mas en el soundtrack de Natural Born Killers (Tacoma Trailer y Waiting for a Miracle) adqurí mis primeros discos de Cohen Songs of love and hate ,The Future y Im youre man.

Ayer ví un estupendo documental sobre este compositor y poeta judío canadiense que me recordó un poco mi relación con su trabajo, influencia de artistas tan disímiles como Bono de U2, Nick Cave, los Pixies, REM, John Cale, James, Rufus W. entre otros que quedó plasmado en un cd llamado “Im youre fan”,

Aquel Leonard Cohen que alguna vez recibia una mamada de Janis Joplin mientras pensaba en la nueva letra de una canción, una Janis con la que tuvo un romance fugaz cuando ambos habitaban el Chelsea Hotel y que desencadenó una melodía muy poco elegante para la memoria de la “bruja cósmica” según palabras del propio Leonard creando la insuperable frase de “We are ugly but we have the music”.

Un tipo como Leonard Cohen de la talla de Bob Dylan y Tom Waits,que a través de su música y su poesía puede tocar las fibras más intimas de algunos seres humanos, un hombre que no necesita mas que una guitarra y un par de palabras para mover al mundo…In the tower of song.

Tower Of Song

Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the Tower of Song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song

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