Friday, September 21, 2007

A man with a birthday... Leonard Cohen

Happy birthday Leonard Cohen! Three years ago you turned 70 and the novelty of a new decade is fading away. But maybe it feels more like the revolution of being 23 than the slowing down of 33. One way or another we managed to celebrate it in Edmonton... one way or another.

The whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the devil and once for Christ
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
we're busted in the blinding lights,
busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME




"Ay, ay, ay, ay! Take this close-mouthed waltz..." wrote Federico García Lorca, and for your hero you wrote a waltz for his words, that you made yours, very yours. Not many birthdays I have been where the celebrated one gives the presents to the guests.

Perhaps that is the secret to have the guests back every year =)

Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's CLOSING TIME


3 comments:

  1. Acabo de firmar en un posteo de hace casi dos años, diecinueve de diciembre del dos mil cinco. Es muy lindo tu blog, no lo abandones (y la canción homónima que da nombre al blog es excelente)

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  2. Hey Amelie!

    Gracias por motivarme a no abandonar este blog... tratare... tratare!

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  3. Aloó José Luis, te he pasado la estafeta de un jueguito bloguero, más detalles en mi blog,

    abrazo!

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