Leonard Cohen
Suzanne

 

Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

 

Song lyrics

Original English text

 

” Suzanne ” is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1967s. First published “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen as a poem in 1966, it was recorded as a song by Judy Collins in the same year, and Leonard Cohen performed it as his debut single, from his 1967 album “Songs of Leonard Cohen”. “Suzanne” was inspired by Cohen’s platonic relationship with dancer Suzanne Verdal.
Many other artists have recorded cover versions of the “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen, and it has become one of the most covered songs in Cohen’s catalogue: Joan Baez , Hector , Plan B , R.E.M. , Françoise Hardy , Herman van Veen , Nina Simone , Neil Diamond , Fabrizio De André , Roberta Flack , Geoffrey Oryema , Peter Gabriel , Joan Manuel Serrat , Nana Mouskouri , Micah P. Hinson , Colm Wilkinson , James Taylor.

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Below you can find the video “Suzanne” song by Leonard Cohen Live in London.

Good reading, good listening and good Suzanne!

 

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Leonard Cohen

Suzanne

 

Song Lyrics

Original English text

 

Suzanne takes you down

to her place near the river

You can hear the boats go by

You can spend the night beside her

 

And you know that she’s half crazy

But that’s why you want to be there

 

And she feeds you tea and oranges

That come all the way from China

And just when you mean to tell her

That you have no love to give her

Then she gets you on her wavelength

And she lets the river answer

That you’ve always been her lover

 

And you want to travel with her

And you want to travel blind

And you know that she will trust you

For you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind.

 

And Jesus was a sailor

When he walked upon the water

And he spent a long time watching

From his lonely wooden tower

 

And when he knew for certain

Only drowning men could see him

He said “All men will be sailors then

Until the sea shall free them”

 

But he himself was broken

Long before the sky would open

Forsaken, almost human

He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone

 

And you want to travel with him

And you want to travel blind

And you think maybe you’ll trust him

For he’s touched your perfect body with his mind.

 

Now Suzanne takes your hand

And she leads you to the river

She is wearing rags and feathers

From Salvation Army counters

 

And the sun pours down like honey

On our lady of the harbour

And she shows you where to look

Among the garbage and the flowers

 

There are heroes in the seaweed

There are children in the morning

They are leaning out for love

And they will lean that way forever

While Suzanne holds the mirror

 

And you want to travel with her

And you want to travel blind

And you know that you can trust her

For she’s touched your perfect body

with her mind.

…

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Leonard Cohen – Suzanne

Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

Song Lyrics

Original English text

 

 

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Video Leonard Cohen Live
Suzanne – London Concert

 

 

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