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Song for Leonard

from Politics, Religion and Sex by Bruce Watson

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I was a Cohen addict for may years. I called my first guitar Suzanne! I wrote this to sing for a group of friends who used to get together to sing for each other. These singing nights had only two rules: 1. No Leonard Cohen; 2. Especially no Suzanne. A challenge I couldn’t resist!

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Leonard Cohen brings you down to the depths of depression
You can listen to him for hours, you can spend the night just crying
And you know he'll send you crazy, that's why you want to stop it
And you start to slash your wrists and hang yourself from the ceiling
And just when you start believing that this world you're finally leaving
Then somebody stops the record, and you feel a little better
'Cause his songs are so depressing

And you want to smash the record
And destroy the record player
But you know that you can't do it
'Cause he's destroyed the very fabric of your mind

Now, the only thing that's worse than all those hours of Leonard Cohen
Is to spend a long time listening to all his imitators going
Through all those incomprehensible songs like Suzanne and So Long Marianne
Who think that all men should be Cohen freaks and sing all songs in A minor
Their guitars should all be broken, they should be banished to New Zealand
They're disgusting, not quite human – they should sink into the ocean
Like a stone

And they want to travel with you
And they want to travel blind
But you know you shouldn't let them
They'll destroy the very fabric of your mind

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from Politics, Religion and Sex, released August 4, 2020

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Bruce Watson Melbourne, Australia

Joyful, hilarious, thought provoking and totally engaging original songs from one of Australia's foremost songwriters and performers in the folk style.

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