I´ve always loved this song. It´s "Scissors Cut" written by Jimmy Webb, but here sung by Art Garfunkel (never knew Garfunkel sang it btw - I prefer Jimmy Webb singing it, on his album "Angel Heart" (album´s hard to find; v expensive!...))
It contains the quintessential Cold War declaration of love, when starting:
"If they ever drop the bomb," you said "I'll find you in the flames"
As for the Garfunkel, it´s still good. I do wonder if that´s possibly Jennifer Warnes or Linda Ronstadt singing the backing vocals.
do you remember the Hallelujah sung in the movie Shrek 2, where Shrek´s sitting at the bar feeling defeated? references to Leonard Cohen have woven themselves through these postings from time to time. apparently, reading an interview with him the other day, it said that it had taken him five years in which to write the song. and further, there are a number of versions. not just versions based on interpretations through the years by various artists, but also lyrically, at the level of the verses.
so then, below two of my most-listened-to in past weeks; well, see:
drink up baby down Are you in or are you out? Leave your things behind 'Cause it's all going off without you Excuse me too busy you're writing your tragedy These mishaps You bubble-wrap When you've no idea what you're like
[Chorus:] So, let go,let go Jump in Oh well, what you waiting for? It's all right 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown So, let go, l-let go Just get in Oh, it's so amazing here It's all right 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
It gains the more it gives And then it rises with the fall So hand me that remote Can't you see that all that stuff's a sideshow? Such boundless pleasure We've no time for later Now you can't await your own arrival you've twenty seconds to comply
[Chorus:] So, let go, so let go Jump in Oh well, what you waiting for? It's alright 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown So, let go, yeah let go Just get in Oh, it's so amazing here It's all right 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
[Background sounds]
[Chorus:] So, let go, so let go Jump in Oh well, what you waiting for? It's alright 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown So, let go, yeah let go Just get in Oh, it's so amazing here It's all right 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
In the breakdown 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown The breakdown
So amazing here 'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
I’m sitting here frozen in this bed I made Considering the weight of the bricks I laid now that I’m through One by one sealed every crack that I could slip between to find my way back Find my way back home to you
And I’m burning all my bridges with these matches I light To illuminate my path to what is right And even if it’s true what they say that you can’t go back home once you’ve cast it away I would still have left tonight
You know baby I would be with you if I could To trade my flesh for your bones I would, I would, I would, I would, I would…
I carry with me on my way All the ghosts of all the love that I let slip away The heavy weight of promises made That if I could exonerate I might just lift off today
And I’m burning all my bridges with these matches I light To illuminate my path to what is right And even if it’s true what they say that you can’t go back home once you’ve cast it away I would still have left tonight
You know baby I would be with you if I could To trade my flesh for your bones I would, I would, I would, I would, I would…
I chased your memory from my mind But every song I write is just a wish to find you, near or far Through all the tears and all the time That I been running blind I still ain’t got to where you are
And I’m burning all my bridges with these matches I light To illuminate my path to what is right And even if it’s true what they say that you can’t go back home once you’ve cast it away I would still have left tonight
You know baby I would be with you if I could To trade my flesh for your bones I would, I would, I would, I would, I would…
