Leonard Cohen, RIP

Apparently Corey agrees.

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Wow.

I think this is his epitaph:

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This was the first Cohen song I remember hearing and it hooked me on his work right away.

[quote]Nothing left to do when you know that you’ve been taken.
Nothing left to do when you’re begging for a crumb
Nothing left to do when you’ve got to go on waiting
Waiting for the miracle to come.
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[quote="TacoChucks, post:28, topic:89183] “Dance me to the end of Love”
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I was clicking around a couple of days ago and found this cover version by one of his former backup singers. It’s stuck with me since then:

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Isn’t that a tear on his cheek at the end?

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An indirect tribute from the Daily Mash, of all places:

Everyone getting hammered tonight for bad reasons

Alcohol is selling briskly across the UK as adults prepare to get blackout drunk not because the weekend is here but because the weekend is here and Donald Trump is president and Leonard Cohen is dead.

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Gwen Ifil (PBS Newshour, debate moderator) has also died.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gwen-ifill-‘pbs-newshour’-host-dies-at-61/ar-AAkhTAw?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp

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What the fuck!

Linked it to the dead celebrities thread, BTW.

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