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About This Track
“Famous Blue Raincoat” is one of Leonard Cohen’s better-known songs. It appears on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released 1971.
The song is written in the form of a letter, and tells the story of a three-sided affair between the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the addressed person, who is identified only briefly as, “my brother, my killer.” Implied in the song is that Jane was either engaged to or married to the speaker, but after the events, “And you treated my woman to a flake of your life, and when she came back she was nobody’s wife.”
Later in the song, the speaker admits that he is partially grateful for the affair, because Jane had been troubled, and the affair alleviated it when he hadn’t been able to.
The song is written in the form of a letter, and tells the story of a three-sided affair between the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the addressed person, who is identified only briefly as, “my brother, my killer.” Implied in the song is that Jane was either engaged to or married to the speaker, but after the events, “And you treated my woman to a flake of your life, and when she came back she was nobody’s wife.”
Later in the song, the speaker admits that he is partially grateful for the affair, because Jane had been troubled, and the affair alleviated it when he hadn’t been able to.
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supersteveme wrote:
who needs drugs when someone moves you like this
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SecretSheridan wrote:
Oh my and the tears rolled down my cheek..
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wouwek wrote:
I like it
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gingert0m wrote:
purrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Rubygirl wrote:
It's so beautiful it always makes me cry.
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JakobVirgil wrote:
@thealexgator for me too, one of my favorites
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tiz950 wrote:
.... è meravigliosamente dolce. Musica per sognare e volare
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thealexgator wrote:
this is painful to listen to.
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EDISONBRAZ wrote:
uala
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bopkabbalah wrote:
Stated it perfectly. Cohen was a mystic. [2]
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b060113last wrote:
one of those slow poetry songs that always changes the metaphor as your different selves evolve over time. Cohen was a mystic.
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b060113last wrote:
this song caused me to set a goal to eradicate my emotions. but this song won in the long term
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WonderfulFreak wrote:
this one reminds me of Pink Floyd.
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JosKnecht wrote:
This wraps Cohen up completely. Quiet, subtle and smoothly flowing, yet so heartbreaking you find yourself emptied out at the end of listening; an unobtrusive array of impressions and memories fading away with a somewhat pointless question or remark; larded with strong and evocative language, but devoid of any unnecessary ostentation. Long story short: a perfect Leonard Cohen song and a near-perfect song overall. If you're reading this, you shouldn't be reading this, but listening to 'Famous Blue Raincoat'. Maybe both, but you get the point.
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soto-13 wrote:
nice......
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CigarFire wrote:
I'm breathless when i listen to this.
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cindyblueorigin wrote:
haunting, he nails it
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ppifpafpuff wrote:
Liverpool...
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goregoresan wrote:
thank you for all the trouble you took from my eyes...
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KanaaaN wrote:
masterpiece , masterpiece , masterpiece , masterpiece , masterpiece ........
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