The music was
washing me
of my self
And I laid back
to watch
the movie
play
on eyes--
in my soul
They were
all pink
the visions
and they too
washed me
over
Man o' man
I haven't hallucinated
like this in a long
time, when the feel
was fresh and new
And I enjoyed it
as it came
one by one
soul by soul
Then one last image:
a bald man's face
covered in cloth
so that only eyes
and up
were visible
And he said to me
he said to me
You know who
you are
And I looked back
and said, I know
I know
He was the devil
and I was confident
to see him
And that made me feel good
My confidence
A few days have passed now,
and I wonder
Was I confident because of
some inner strength?
Or was it because
I was in good company?
"I'm on the side that's always lost
Against the side of Heaven
I'm on the side of Snake-eyes tossed
Against the side of Seven.
And I've read the Bill of Human Rights
And some of it was true
But there wasn't any burden left
So I'm laying it on you."
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That last stanza is the sh*t.
No kidding, it's a Leonard Cohen lyric!
:)
i was obsessed with that album from 1996 to 1998... i would like to cover the whole thing pretty much. the picture of him on the album cover kind of looks like a long exposure in moonlight.
i recently had a dream where someone said, "just look at what happened on canyon road." i had never heard of that place so when i woke up i looked it up on the internet. turns out it's a street with like 100 art galleries on it in santa fe new mexico. but i'm not exactly sure what happened there.
Obsession with L. Cohen is something I am familiar with.
And as to dreams, I am having more and more every week, and I have a hunch they're more real than my dancing brain chemicals.
Go canyon road!
Let's cover it! (what album is it, anyways?)
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I like this poem.
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