If all you've ever heard of Leonard Cohen are the (way too many) versions of Hallelujah, you owe it to yourself to listen to Songs from a Room. 3
I"m sitting in a little bakery in Yaffa listening to Leonard Cohen and thinking of the first time I heard this song in the middle of the 2006 conflict in Lebanon while sitting on the beach in Beirut. Still as haunting as ever. 1
Drinking the wrong Chianti and listening to Leonard Cohen in Lucca
"Le vent souffle sur les tombes/la liberté reviendra"
"I was cautioned to surrender, this I could not do" 7