Geraldine Flächer
"Suzanne" is one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written, superbly sung by Leonard Cohen. It's like I can see Montreal in autumn when I listen to it (no, I can't explain it, I really don't get that one myself...)
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne download song
- Artist: Leonard Cohen
- Song Title: Suzanne
- Music Genre: Rock
- Length: 03:50
- Size: 9MB
- Bitrate: 320Kbps
- Uploaded: 2020-03-14
- Upload by: Grit Ondrasch
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friedbleu
I was named after this song ...my Dad listened to it every day the year before I was born and then the night I was born...I listen to it when I'm missing him.
Сема Шахно
I've been listening to Leonard Cohen for over 50 years. This was the first album of his that I bought, and I couldn't get enough of it - I played it over and over. It has never dated, it has always remained relevant; fifty years on, it is still as moving and hauntingly beautiful as it ever was.
Gerry Horton
This song is hauntingly beautiful.
Angelina Grainger
R.I.P My favorite musician ever
Павел Веселый
I remember watching a documentary about a homeless man from Montreal who knew Leonard Cohen. This man ended up in the west of Canada, in Vancouver, and ultimately in a mental hospital. He needed cash for cigarettes or something, and told the nurses "please call my friend Leonard Cohen and ask him to send me some money". The nurses probably thought he was lying, but they called anyway. Leonard sent this guy some money!
Not only was he a millionaire songwriter, but he had a huge heart, befriending someone who most of us wouldn't give a minute to. Thank you Leonard Cohen. You were a beautiful soul.
Pork Pie
Cheers if you’re listening to this in 2019
Wootshie Owl
After listening to this song 300 times, I have no doubt In my mind: this is the most beautiful song ever written
Keith Hendricks
Recently a friend died at 92, for years he had insisted on having his tombstone engraved with the following: "don't feel bad for me, I lived in the time that real songs had words and real trains had names."
So that is what we did.
VuduEyes
There is nothing left to say except he was a true poet in every sense of the word.
garyalee
For me one of the best songs ever written and composed.
Аслан Махов
All men will be sailors until the sea shall free them.
Maggie magz
As a young teenager some fifty years ago, mention the name Leonard Cohen and you were imediately met with 'oh yes he sings depressing songs' and to an extent I agreed back then.
Then I grew up and with lifes experiences, profoundly changed my mind. What wonderfully sensitive music and lyrics which have become more pertinent to me as I have aged. You have left us a wondeful legacy of beautiful songs for us to enjoy. Goodbye my friend.
Cristiano Mombello
and all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them
Junior Xanjo
I listened to an interview with Suzanne. She and Leonard never had sexual relationship. Though she said, "He was a very seductive man." They were very close, for how long is unclear.
Leonard's father stressed reading the classics. So he was very cognizant of the powerful nature of the muse. Suzanne said, "What we had was more intimate than a sexual relationship. If we had sex, we would have lost that."
This is what Leonard is articulating when he writes, "You've touched her perfect body with your mind."
Today, we ridicule men with close platonic relationships with women, and we villify women. With respect to women, we suspect them of taking advantage of the man or stringing him along as a spare. This is expressed with respect to men that he must be gay, or it is an unrequited love, or he is in the 'friend zone.'
This reductive attitude is a product of our simplistic attitudes about the complex nature and types of intimacy, and the sad fact that few people have read any of the classics. Yet, the muse is very real, Edie Sedgwick was a muse to Warhol and Dylan, Linda McCartney, Yoko Ono, Zelda Fitzgerald - Hemingway was close with an unamed woman all his life, and, of course, Suzanne.
Starkiller Killa
This is the song that got me into Leonard's catalogue. That one line section "And when he knew for certain/Only drowning men could see him/He said "All men will be sailors then/Until the sea shall free them'/But he himself was broken/Long before the sky would open/Forsaken, almost human/He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone" absolutely blew my mind. I couldn't believe such an expression could be put across in a matter of a few lines. I later saw Leonard perform in Australia what was one of his last shows ever. 3 hours of playing, dancing, singing, running across the stage and getting down on his knees - all at 79 years of age. What a blessing to have witnessed that with my own eyes. I may have missed out on seeing Jimi Hendrix tripped out on LSD burn his guitar, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend smash their instruments or Charly García playing the piano and synthesizer at the same time whilst laying across his piano stool, a rose in his teeth, screaming metaphorical lyrics at the government who wanted him dead, but I did get to see Leonard Cohen and that's enough for me.