Leonard Cohen's "You Want it Darker"

[packman]

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' "You Want It Darker” also reminds ..of the last Johnny Cash recordings, which were similarly infused with the spirituality of the sinner, the broken man at the end of his wayward life who at once reaches out toward God, and despairs. But where Cash maintained a faith in the moral order of the universe to the end, Cohen sings (or growls) “They’re lining up the prisoners and the guards are taking aim.” It’s hard to imagine Johnny Cash taunting God the way Cohen does. If the world is as dark as it seems, if humankind so irredeemable, then God must want it this way: darker.'

[wiggs]

1. Wish he was touring this album. His concert in LA a few years ago was one of the best I've

seen. Amazing, moving.

[saltpoint]

2. Leonard Cohen is a genius. eom