Tower of song - U2 & Leonard Cohen.

Esta noche he podido ver la película "I'm your man" sobre Leonard Cohen. Vamos tan rápido por esta vida que probablemente alguien como el viejo Leonard nunca vuelva a pertenecer a los ritmos que marcan y marcarán este mundo. Su poesía y su música requieren calma, paciencia, disfrutar de la belleza a pequeños sorbos y valorar la contemplación, la reflexión y los procesos.
La parte final de la película es la colaboración entre Leonard y U2 interpretando "Tower of song". Ver juntos a los cuatro irlandeses con Leonard Cohen y su presencia escultural impacta. Las miradas de admiración mutuas, la extraña belleza que surge con los acordes de The Edge, la ausencia de Larry, la sonrisa de Adam y lo que puede hacer Bono simplemente con gestos conforman algo raramente bello e intenso.
Y por encima de todo ello Leonard Cohen, con su sencillez, su concentración, toda su vida detrás y la plenitud que desprende al saborear lo que le queda de vida.

"Leonard Cohen encuentra tonalidades en la oscuridad que parecen colores" - Bono



Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the Tower of Song

So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the Tower of Song

Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song

I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again

Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song

Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song