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
  

Bachelorette, you'll got o Paris on your own!

by Novic

Leave me now, return tonight
The tide will show you the way
If you forget my name, you will go astray
Like a killer whale trapped in a bay

I'm a tree that grows hearts
One for each that you take
You're the intruders hand
I'm the branch that you break

• Björk - Bachelorette

Bachelorette, you climb on rooftops and you -
Bachelorette, you can turn dust into champagne
you even remembered his name!

Bachelorette, you fly alone now and you cry sometimes
There's nothing like it in the world
You'll go to Paris on your own!

• Tori Amos - Bachelorette

Someone pointed out that both of these wonderful songs are tangos which is a strange coincidence or maybe an homage to Björk. Tori's is a b-side on Spark and as for Bjork's, I couldn't find the original music video.