You want it darker. Wrestling With God: Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker

He came out in a raincoat, collar turned up, a fedora and leaned over the footlights	I preordered this CD some time before it was released
How many can you name who stands alone, in shadow, a man and his guitar	We now know how the album was created

You Want It Darker; an analysis

I'm gonna tell a few stories.

You want it darker
You Want It Darker ...: I don't understand those who wrote "not his best"
You Want It Darker: The songs encompass the themes Cohen has pursued throughout his life and the whole feels like a settling of accounts, a straightening of the record and a final testament by a man who has made peace with himself and the world

At age 82, he presents his uncompromising and urgent new album, You Want It Darker
He battled the demons until they quit him	Simkovich is the Crown-Ryan Chair of Jewish Studies and the director of the Catholic-Jewish Studies program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago

You Want It Darker; an analysis

He was the weaver of the dreams that comes this way but once.

Cohen, Leonard: Surely everyone stands as a mere breath
You want it darker
Leonard Cohen

May I detain you to recount a little story of the man's generosity	The weight of the hearts they broke burdening them, perhaps heavier than ever, as they see their final judgements coming
The popular narrative is one of a conflicted and, perhaps, jaded faith	As Cohen accuses God of causing human suffering, we must remember that Cohen is getting in on an existential debate that he knows has been ongoing since the biblical period itself, when Abraham argued with God, accusing Him of ruthlessness towards the people of Sodom, and Moses railed against God when He threatens to destroy the Israelites, and David beseeched God to stop causing him personal pain

May I detain you to recount a little story of the man's generosity

The weight of the hearts they broke burdening them, perhaps heavier than ever, as they see their final judgements coming

The popular narrative is one of a conflicted and, perhaps, jaded faith

As Cohen accuses God of causing human suffering, we must remember that Cohen is getting in on an existential debate that he knows has been ongoing since the biblical period itself, when Abraham argued with God, accusing Him of ruthlessness towards the people of Sodom, and Moses railed against God when He threatens to destroy the Israelites, and David beseeched God to stop causing him personal pain

You Want It Darker ...

My body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love.

You Want It Darker; an analysis: I very much doubt there is or will be a greater recording this year or the next! I am ready to die
Wrestling With God: Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker: All the Cohen songs you ever loved were glorious testimony to being alive - at whatever stage on the road
Wrestling With God: Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker: That rending of cloth is symbolic that the dead no longer need clothes