Leonard Cohen: Anticipated his death? – Huffington Post Germany

“You want it darker, We kill the flame (…) I’m ready, my Lord”. Freely translated: “do you want it darker, we kill the flame, ( … ), I’m ready, my Lord,” breathed Leonard Cohen (1934-2016), “You Want It Darker”, one of his last Songs, into the microphone. And it seems that the “Hallelujah”singer had a feeling ahead of his death already.

The basic tenor of his last album, which he released in October of this year, is morbid. Not only his Song, “You Want It Darker” is about the death of. In “Leaving The Table” to walk away with English “I”, speaks Leonard Cohen take this quite openly about the farewell: “There’s nobody missing, There is no reward, Little by Little, We’re cutting the cord (…) I’m leaving the table, I’m out of the game” – translated: “no one is missing, there is no reward, piece by piece, we cut the cord (…) I’m going out, I’m out of the game”.

Here you can buy Leonard Cohen’s last Album, “You Want It Darker”

But even in his earlier albums, Cohen dealt with the topic of “death”. In the song “So Long, Marianne” (1967), for example, he sang about his great love, Marianne Ihlen, with whom he led in the 60s in a relationship. After she died of leukemia, was dedicated to Cohen, the Song with the following lines of text:

“I think I want to follow you very soon. Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine” (“I think I’m going to follow you very soon. I know that I am very close behind you. Because if you put out your Hand, I think that I can reach”).

prove a thing, as the album title, “You Want It Darker”: as dark as his last Album none before. The album cover is in Black-and-White and Cohen, looks out from a white frame in the darkness. The song, produced by his son Adam (44, “We Go Home”), had to be according to the music magazine “Rolling Stone” at his father’s home and in a Sitting position.

Leonard Cohen was able to look back with 20 released Studio and live albums, and several concerts on a remarkable career. With 82 years, the music has left legend for the stage, as his Label “Sony Music Canada” Thursday night on Twitter, and Cohen’s Facebook-announced page.

In a New Yorker article, he confessed recently: “I’m ready to die. I just hope it is not too inconvenient.”