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This miraculous song is another firm favourite of mine. It transcends and touches the depths of essential truth. The song is based on a prayer chanted in Hebrew on the day of Atonement, the day one has to stand solemnly before the judge. ‘Who by Fire’, like the prayer that inspired it, solemnly calls out the different ways we might die, some by fire, some by water, some by slow decay. Cohen adds his poetic wit to the chant with the line at the end of every verse: ‘Who shall I say is calling?’
 
I realised, after having written it, that my song, ‘Time of Nought’, was inspired by this extraordinary song and had I never heard ‘Who by Fire’ I most certainly would not have written it. I read that Leonard Cohen described his songs as muffled prayers; sometimes I think of my songs as religious music for non-believers so perhaps we have a little something in common, at the very least in the way a pupil might look up to his master.

Artwork : portrait of Leonard Cohen by Piers Faccini
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The Great Awakening

Highgate

Shearwater- Black Eyes (The Golden Archipelago)

Enregistré live à Wasquehal 
Son : François Gabert
Recording/Mixage : David Beckandt - Feeling Studios

Chant : Clémence Douçot
Guitare : Cédric Alexandre
Basse : Luc Dewerte
Batterie : Ludovic Rivaux

As The Years Go Passing By (live)

You've robbed the shoes, that she loved the best
You have one dress, still it smells her hair
When a woman is gone and her man is mad from her
How can he keep safe from those keepsakes she left him ?
You look funny, now you look so old
Sometimes it's hard to hard on for love
"How many times ? How many men but me ?"
You know true love
This happy ending makes me want to cry...

She used to ride her racing horse
Among the flat field of her foolish pain
But her lover was sad as a November rain
She decided to divorce
Before she built fairy castles in Spain.

"Sometimes to feel I'm no more a man
I hope my doctor, he will understand
I am an apeman, baby you've swallowed my sail
Your chinese puzzles made of a me a perfect mongol

I knew nothing about your geography baby
About your perma frost into your Siberia of Sorrow
I've heard you'd melt like an ice cube
Sorry, I thought you were frigid for good

O Lena, don't you run from me ?
Take me back to yor Baïkal sea
My heart was lost in your travelling bag
I cannot, I cannot, I cannot breath,
Can't you send it back to me ?"

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