submissions
| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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Rated 0 I recently read "Just Kids" by Patti Smith about her life with Robert Marplethorpe, their relationship and the Chelsea Hotel/Clinton Street/New York scene. (It's an incredible book - I recommend it to all of you). I can't help thinking there has to be alot about Patti and Robert entwined into L. Cohen's lyrics. Songwriters draw, like all good writers, from everything and every one around them, sometimes conciously, sometimes sub-conciously (sorry if that word is misspelled!) I cannot get this song out of my mind! If L. Cohen chooses to say he doesn't know what the song is about, I respect that. But I'm sure he really does... |
submissions
| Leonard Cohen – Famous Blue Raincoat Lyrics
| 13 years ago
|
|
I recently read "Just Kids" by Patti Smith about her life with Robert Marplethorpe, their relationship and the Chelsea Hotel/Clinton Street/New York scene. (It's an incredible book - I recommend it to all of you). I can't help thinking there has to be alot about Patti and Robert entwined into L. Cohen's lyrics. Songwriters draw, like all good writers, from everything and every one around them, sometimes conciously, sometimes sub-conciously (sorry if that word is misspelled!) I cannot get this song out of my mind! If L. Cohen chooses to say he doesn't know what the song is about, I respect that. But I'm sure he really does... |
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