Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Official Audio)

The heck does this song mean?

I lit a thin green candle
To make you jealous of me
But the room just filled up with mosquitoes
They heard that my body was free

Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night
And I put it in your little shoe
And then I confess that I tortured the dress
That you wore for the world to look through

I showed my heart to the doctor
He said I'd just have to quit
Then he wrote himself a prescription
And your name was mentioned in it

Then he locked himself in a library shelf
With the details of our honeymoon
And I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse
And his practice is all in a ruin

I heard of a saint who had loved you
So I studied all night in his school
He taught that the duty of lovers
Is to tarnish the golden rule

And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure
He drowned himself in the pool
His body is gone but back here on the lawn
His spirit continues to drool

An Eskimo showed me a movie
He'd recently taken of you
The poor man could hardly stop shivering
His lips and his fingers were blue

I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes
And I guess he just never got warm
But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice
Oh please, let me come into the storm

Never heard this one before. One of his best.cant believe i hadnt heard it

First fell in love with this song in 1976, aged 16. Finally saw Mr. Cohen live in Amsterdam, July 11 2008. Myself and 13,000 dedicated fans in the old gas works area. A dark night with light rain, however, we were all bathed in sunlight all through his 24 songs he performed. A night never to be forgotten. RIP Leonard; what a difference you made to this world. God bless.

the best outro ever!

I always think of this song when I light my little green candle

This is quite a humorous song but those last few lines, damn!

Sweeeeetttttesttttttt

Can anyone explain why he said that doctor wrote himself a prescription and the girl's name written on it

❤️

Every time I listen to Leonard my nips turn blue.

My favourite outro of a song.

Heart wrenching song, but so beautiful.

Que c'est beau 🎻🎼🕊️

A tough lesson I learned way too late. Then, I got punished for a charge that wasn’t true. But, that was in a world when I couldn’t be.

Don’t, bother, apologize. It hasn’t had any meaning for years. I never took your pills, your smoke or your hypocrisy. I’m much better as I am now. I clearly recall what your argument was to this judge. Yeah! I did love the kids and pets way better than you. That’s a fact as after this, you tried hard to extinguish my bonds. Fine! I don’t respect you even today!

Aye

I cannot believe Robert Altman didn’t use this song for the end credits of McCabe and Mrs Miller

magnifique !!!!!!!

My Nan absolutely loathed Leonard Cohen and this is her least favourite ❤ Beautiful song that i used to play on purpose

Excuses without accountability still remains. I have nothing more to add.

This is undoubtedly the best love song of all time

That’s what I dislike so much about .Democrats. Accountability is not in their file as this group has come from government privilege. Often, wasted, but get accolades nonetheless. They didn’t give a rats behind about You. Just advancing themselves and never recalled where their beginning of their lives were.

The grand finale to a Five Star album. The strongest love song ever written because we all have felt this surrender to love, stronger than our logical mind and stronger than Faith. So despite everything that she is capable of, and the inevitable destruction that awaits him . . . he still pleads: ' ' You stand there so nice . . . in your blizzard of ice, Oh please let me come into the storm.' '

His bob dylan era. How sad.

Wow. What a composition. Absolutely beautiful and soothing to hear.

Chaos is today’s agendas. Now, the original women’s movement was never been contorted as women and men on the take to celebrate. Why are there two genders? Some think only for reproduction and a continuous family presence. Unfortunately, that’s a myopic view. There are more reasons for the creation of these two. Unfortunately, this too has been bastardized!

My Gen Z children may not appreciate the wit and poetry of the lyrics but they ll sure be amazed by the pathos of Cohen's screaming at the end...all for a love unfulfilled😅

I was a beekeeper in Basingstoke when I first heard the four minute warning; I was dancing with the queen bee when all of a sudden, Charles, the gatekeeper's son, came running over in tweed, crying that the Russians were coming. I bowed my head and thought to myself "What of Dotty MR. Bottomsly?" That's when Cohen's insightful prose hit me like a thundercunt from Babylon and I knew what I had to do. Run!

One word....Masterpiece

Telefon sıkıntı guzelliktelerdir sabah şekeri ❤ emin olamiyorlarda orjinal sabah şekerindemilerki çok güzelsin diyorlar kimseyi ilgilendirmez sadecidir çok güzelsin kusebilirler telofon sıkıntı konturol güzellikte tutuklular iyi niyetli olarak güzelliğin hayranlaridirlar guzelligi uzemeyceklerine gore sabah şekeri ❤ ne derse o olurmusu olmaz olmak zorunda değil Özlemek zorundalarmki çok güzelsin nasil değilki güzellik evlilik öncesi guzellik ❤ uzulmesinde cok koyu hayranlaridirlar guzelligin dediği olmak zorunda öylede olacak birilerinin ❤ iptal edildiyselerki guzellige duyulan saygıdandir öylede olacak birilerinin ❤ maf olmasi onemli degildir diyorlar sade dusunmuslerdi sadece oydu neyse olsun ❤ serafettindir

Sinirler bozulunca güzellik sendeler

Görmek istemiyorlasimi güzelliktirler ha istemiyorlarsa ki istemiyorlarlarmistir anlasilmistirki anlamislar yine güzelliktelerde güzelliği bilemediklerindendir

It s So so Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

❤

predictably leonard cohen does a different take on the what-to-wear question. he doesn't want her to put on or take off that see-through dress, just to confess that he tortured it.

Lightfoot better by light years

Always reminds me of my first wife, a Canadian - So true...

Thank you Leonard for describing the cruel version of love that ive known.

I have purchased this very album on many different formats over the last four decades because I wear them out! Now here I go again picking up the Vinyl!

Then, now, forever...

looks like scar face amiright?

Under the volcano

Am auzit prima data această melodie în august 1973 în tabăra scolară de la Homorod România,aveam 17 ani pe o bandă de magnetofon ,mulțumesc Leonard.

I discovered Leonard at 16, I still have all his original LP's at 69. Saw Leonard every time he came to Australia from 1974. My friends thought I was weird for loving his songs and not the Monkees (liked some Monkees songs) anyway I love this song the ending cracks me up.

One more in the forgotten book long long time beautiful lyrics and the madness ❤

ER WAR EIN POET UND ICH BEWUNDERE IHN . DIESEN SONG KANN ICH JEDERZEIT UND IMMER WIEDER HÖREN.

I wish I had a friend that can feel the same way I feel when i listen to this song

Beautiful ❤