Beautiful Friend

by Heather Rudynski

I could leave us, I could leave us a painting
Our lives are-a-changing

• The Charlatans - My Beautiful Friend

My friend and me looking through her red box of memories, faded, I'm sure but love seems to stick in her veins, you know

• The Verve - Sonnet

Here's some britpop to make you think of the lost ones for your evening.

Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen. Please live on.

• I'm Your Man - The Cohen tribute
• Clip form the tribute - Tower Of Song
• Famous Blue Raincoat - Live 2008
• Leonard Cohen Files
• Martha Wainwright's cover of The Traitor
• Rufus Wainwight's cover of Chelsea Hotel

And when it's over, I'll see you again

by LamElena

Moving, just keep moving,
Well I don't know why to stay,
No ties to bind me,
No reasons to remain.

• Supergrass - Moving
• Kate Bush - Moving
  

You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

By Evil-Shoelace

She knows its too late as were walking on by
Her soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger"
I heard you say

• Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
• Don Henley - Boys of Summer
  

Gimme one reason to stay here, you gotta make me change my mind

by Hahahayeah

• Tracy Chapman with Eric Clapton - Gimme One Reason
• Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

"I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
to try and make me change my mind and stay
we never did too much talkin' anyway
so don't think twice, it's all right"

So long, Marianne

Hydra, Greece

We met when we were almost young
deep in the green lilac park.
You held on to me like I was a crucifix,
as we went kneeling through the dark.

For now I need your hidden love.
I'm cold as a new razor blade.
You left when I told you I was curious,
I never said that I was brave

I came across this interview with Marianne Ihlen, Leonard Cohen's muse in Hydra in the sixties. I've always loved the elusive lyrics of So Long Marianne which I guess is the most famous, most often sung Cohen song among camp-fire troubadors and buskers and such. Maybe I'll do Suzanne next week.

• So long Marianne - Leonard Cohen
  
• A 2005 interview with Marianne
  

haunted

by Vefenie

Is this What you wanted, to live in a house that is haunted by the ghost of you and me?

• Is this what you wanted? - Leonard Cohen
• Haunted - Sinead O'Connor and Shane MacGowan