Tuesday 2 February 2010

Leonard Cohen - The Future (Official Music Video)

My friends in the UK will know about the recent case of the 2 kids, torturing 2 other kids. Horrific -- reminded me of Leonard Cohen's great poetry...


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  1. Man, I wish they hadn't bleeped out "crack" and "anal sex". You shouldn't be allowed to eviscerate poetry like that. But still a stunning piece of work.

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  2. "Give me back the Berlin Wall,
    Give me Stalin and St Paul."

    What an utterly chilling line.

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  3. It's also the contrast between Leonard growling out the lines and the boppy, girlie singers.

    "When they said, repent, repent, I wondered what they meant."

    It's like the future that he sees, doesn't even understand the concept of sorrow.

    Unless it's sorrow that there's "no-one left to torture." (Shudder)

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