Many times, walking on the road, there will be a song that will come at you coldly, and your heart will feel like it has been hit.
Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 11, 2016) is one such voice, vicissitudes, gentleness, and just the right amount of people to make a mess. He sang like a chant, and recited his poems with musical notes, like a chant, with his golden sentences, to break everyone's hearts, he was a person with major depression, but he used his poems and songs to help the world, in his song, he was the one who fell the deepest, the most painful person, but warmed all people with his gloom.
While people were still waiting for his last tour, he was gone on Double 11, and since then a magical voice has been still.
Born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada, he became famous in poetry and fiction in his early years as a troubadour.
Nobel Laureate in Literature Bob. Dylan once said: "If you give him a minute to become someone else he wants to be Cohen", and the American poet Alan Ginsburg once commented, "Dylan's talent touched everyone except Cohen".
He has an incredibly complex old soul, is a musician, was crowned the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a legendary song, known as the "Byron of Rock and Roll", and won the 52nd Annual Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Is the author of the Prince of Asturias Literary Prize. He was a devout Jew and a monk of the Linji Sect who had escaped into the empty door. It is a love saint, but also a family man... In addition to this, he is an addict and a major depressive.
On that rainy night when I didn't know Leonard Cohen, listening to his songs, I intuitively felt that it was not just the love of men and women who sang, but sang almost like talking, and the low, vicissitudes of voice floated clearly in the air, and there was a Zen feeling for no reason, like fate, but there was also longing and hope in despair.
His voice is like a gentle knife across your body, whispering in a low voice, saying that the world is just like this, behind the joy is actually only sadness and despair, behind the calm is always hidden in the turbulent waves.
It's like when you meet someone, missed, too late, and can't have it after all, but still makes you cherish, full of excitement, hoping that she or he will stay for a moment and care.
You can't help but always explore the so-called fate, only to find that the so-called hand of fate is so far away from you, in the vast world, you are so isolated and helpless, just like you want to hold on to those warm hands, but you are as far away as the end of the world.
Cohen once asked his Zen teacher, Apricot Mountain, how well he sang, and Apricot Mountain said, "You should sing more sadly", and he obviously understood the guidance outside of this technique, so he sang not singing, but talking, singing almost as if he were talking, as he said, "The voice has finally fallen from the throat into the heart", which is the state he wants to achieve. Another example is when the Apricot Mountain Zen Master pointed out the creation of the bitter him and said: "Look up at the bright moon, open your mouth and sing", yes, he understands, everything is natural, everything flows like water, it is so beautiful and moving.
And his voice trances your dreams more clearly, and the silence becomes quieter. The distance between you and him is the distance of the song, so far, so far away that you can't touch him or get close, you can only touch his picture and listen to his voice. But so close, so close that He has entered your soul, so that your wounded heart can be comforted and can go on.
Isn't that the distance you're at from what you're craving? It is always the light of day and the night, but the world is always impermanent, life is always imperfect, as his own description of the new album is "desperate", and everything he desires will lose his fate.
So, and so what, there are cracks in everything in the world, and that is where the light comes in.
To use his "Slow" to explain: "I like not to be in a hurry, I like to waste time, a weekend on your lips, a lifetime in your eyes." 」 ”
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