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“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 flick 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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