To the end.

Leonard Cohen - Dance me to the end of love (Various positions, 1984). Extrait d'un album live de 1994.

There were 3 of us this morning.

Leonard Cohen - The partisan (songs from a room, 1969). Jolie interprétation en tournée en 1988.

Who by fire.

Leonard Cohen - Who by fire (New skin for the old ceremony, 1974).



Une chanson inspirée par un passage d'une prière juive (U'Netaneh Tokef), relative à Rosh Hashanah, début de l'année juive mais aussi jour du jugement :

"On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time; who by water and who by fire, who by sword, who by beast, who by famine, who by thirst, who by storm, who by plague, who by strangulation, and who by stoning. Who will rest and who will wander, who will live in harmony and who will be harried, who will enjoy tranquillity and who will suffer, who will be impoverished and who will be enriched, who will be degraded and who will be exalted."

Une version live (30 octobre 1993) :



Et une autre, non datée (fin des années 70, début des années 80 ?), assez étonnante (avec Sonny Rollins) :