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Wednesday, February 27
Leonard Cohen, 1979, not a perfect version... in fact, I really couldn't hear the song I love in it for the first two minutes... but then I could feel the honesty in the lyrics shine through. Some of the possible meanings of the song were elucidated in the liner notes to 1975's The Best of Leonard Cohen, which included the song.
"I had a good raincoat then, a Burberry I got in London in 1959. Elizabeth thought I looked like a spider in it. That was probably why she wouldn't go to Greece with me. It hung more heroically when I took out the lining, and achieved glory when the frayed sleeves were repaired with a little leather. Things were clear. I knew how to dress in those days. It was stolen from Marianne's loft in New York sometime during the early seventies. I wasn't wearing it very much toward the end."
