I'll be waiting on this corner where there used to be a street. So let's drink to when it's over, and let's drink to when we meet. I tried to join, but no one liked the side I'm fighting for. You put on a uniform to fight the Civil War. Then we both ran out of luck, and luck was all we had. LEONARD COHEN: (Reading) I used to be your favorite drunk, good for one more laugh. But it's now published in this new book, 'The Flame.' So I thought it would be a perfect way to start with your father's reading of that poem, 'A Street,' from our 2006 interview. When I interviewed your father in 2006, after the publication of a book of his poems and songs, he asked to read a poem that he'd just written that hadn't yet been published.

And I'm grateful for the chance to talk with you today. And I feel privileged to have had the chance to hear him in concert and to talk with him on our show. I just want to start by saying I love your father's music. 2,' 'Everybody Knows,' 'Tower Of Song,' 'I'm Your Man,' and of course his best-known, most frequently recorded and performed song 'Hallelujah.'Īdam Cohen, welcome to FRESH AIR. Some of his many well-known songs include 'Suzanne,' 'So Long, Marianne,' 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' 'Chelsea Hotel No.

Leonard Cohen's lyrics have a depth few songwriters have achieved, reflecting reverence and despair, his attraction to beauty and his knowledge of brokenness, lyrics informed by his Judaism, his practice of Zen Buddhism and his doubt. Adam is going to talk with us about Leonard Cohen as a writer, performer and father and tell us about working closely with his father in the final year of his life. Adam also produced the album his father recorded shortly before his death called 'You Want It Darker.' Adam is a singer and songwriter whose album 'Like A Man' went gold in Canada in 2012. Some of his final poems, lyrics, notebook entries and drawings are collected in the new book 'The Flame.' His son, my guest Adam Cohen, wrote the forward. When Leonard Cohen died two years ago at the age of 82, he left behind many unpublished poems and lyrics.

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