Leonard Cohen
5 June 1993
Centre in the Square, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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TT: 155:50.00
Set One:
01. [06:16.73] Dance Me to the End of Love
02. [06:59.55] The Future
03. [05:52.64] Ain't No Cure for Love
04. [06:43.30] Bird on the Wire
05. [07:08.02] Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
06. [06:06.06] Anthem
07. [05:25.32] There Is a War
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08. [06:46.36] First We Take Manhattan
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Set Two:
09. [05:08.10] Avalanche
10. [04:11.72] Chelsea Hotel #2
11. [03:27.22] A Singer Must Die
12. [07:21.68] Tower of Song
13. [08:19.42] Democracy
14. [10:26.18] Waiting for the Miracle (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
15. [05:31.08] I'm Your Man
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16. [06:38.51] Joan of Arc
17. [07:28.31] Closing Time
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Encore #1:
18. [04:25.49] Suzanne
19. [08:58.32] Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen after Federico Garcia Lorca)
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Encore #2:
20. [07:01.08] Hallelujah
21. [06:17.68] Passin' Through (Richard Blakesley, arr. Leonard Cohen)
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Encore #3:
22. [06:31.46] Sisters of Mercy
23. [10:04.46] I Tried to Leave You
24. [02:39.00] Whither Thou Goest (Guy Singer after the Book of Ruth 1:16)
t09-11 Leonard Cohen solo
Complete concert.
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The band is:
Leonard Cohen - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboard
Perla Batalla - vocals
Julie Christensen - vocals
Bob Metzger - guitars, pedal steel guitar
Bob Furgo - keyboards, violin
Paul Ostermayer - keyboards, saxophone, flute
Bill Ginn - keyboards
Jorge Calderon - bass
Steve Meador - drums
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LenTalk:
***before THE FUTURE:
Ah, thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen. Give me back the Berlin Wall. Give me Stalin and St. Paul. Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima. Give me back the ozone layer with that little hole we can't repair. I've seen the future, baby. It is murder!
***after THE FUTURE:
Ah, thanks a lot, friends. Thanks a lot, ladies and gentlemen.
***before AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
When the Prince of Peace was hanging from the final limb, and he looked beneath him and he saw the faces of anger, envy, contempt, anger, despair, melancholy, and he heard the occasional voice lifted up at him saying, "Get a life!" He knew that a lever had been thrown in the cosmos and nothing would ever be the same again. And he looked at these faces beneath his feet and he knew for certain, he knew for sure, there ain't no cure for love.
***after AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***during BIRD ON THE WIRE:
Bobby Metzger on guitar!
***before EVERYBODY KNOWS:
Well, thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen! Everybody know the deal is rotten. What ever deal it is that you're in you know it is rotten. The deal with your boss. The deal with your lover. The deal with the government... What ever it is. It's ... ... ... ... ... ... with human life just goes on... and everybody knows. Everybody knows.
***after EVERYBODY KNOWS:
Thanks. Thanks so much, ladies and gentlemen. It's a great privilege and honor to start the Canadian tour here in Kitchener. I'm sorry that the price of the tickets is so high... They closed UniRoyal and laid off 14,000 workers... very sorry about that.
***before ANTHEM:
but ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in. That's how the light gets in.
***after ANTHEM:
Thank you so much, friends!
***before FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN:
Thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen! I know that many interesting things are happening in this territory. There was a recent convention of Neil Matisse(?) in the area. An occasion of deep interest for one like myself who is interested in peeking over the sea also.
I'm interested in all forms of extremism and will continue to be so until the entire situation is under my control. I know that there is within my work an elixir, a serum, a solvent, a ......, all extremities into one pure Canadian enthusiasm. And I thank you for the items that your sent me: the monkey and the plywood violin. I've practised every night and now I'm ready: first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
***over FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN coda:
We'll be back in... dunno, 20 minutes or something.
***before AVALANCHE:
No score in the first period... Some people care about these things. I, for one. I'm one of them.
***unpublished verse to A SINGER MUST DIE:
And save me a place in a 12-dollar grave
With those who took money for the pleasures they gave
With those always ready, with those who undressed
So you could lie down with your head on somebody's breast
And the ladies go moist, and the judge has no choice
A singer must die for the lie in his voice...
***after TOWER OF SONG:
Oh, miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***before DEMOCRACY:
The Canadians won nothing at the end of First War. This is a great song for the great nation beneath us. Comin' thru' a crack in the wall on a visionary floor of alcohol. From the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount which I don't pretend to understand at all. Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
***before WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE:
Oh, baby, let's get married, let's get married. Let's get married now, yeah. We've been alone too long. Let's be alone together. Let's see if we're that strong. Let's do something crazy, something absolutely wrong while we're waiting for the miracle to come.
***after WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE:
Thank you. Thank you so much. Mr Paul Ostermayer on the flute. Mr Bill Ginn on the keyboard. Mr Steve Meador on the drums. Mr Jorge Calderon on the bass. Mr Bob Metzger on electric guitar. Mr Bobby Furgo on the violin. Miss Perla Batalla. Miss Julie Christensen.
***before JOAN OF ARC:
I saw her wince, I saw her cry, I saw the glory in her eye. Myself, I long for love and light, but must it come so cruel? Must it be so bright?
***before CLOSING TIME:
Now I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth except to say it isn't worth a dime. And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, it is once for the Devil, and it's once for Christ, but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights, we're busted in the blinding lights of closing time...
***after CLOSING TIME:
... one for the Canadians! I'm just making it up. That's it, that's it...
***after SUZANNE:
Ah, thanks a lot, friends.
***before TAKE THIS WALTZ:
Ah, it was about 30 years ago that I stumbled on a book in a second-hand bookstore in Montreal. In that book... when I opened it, I was invited to enter into a world of ants and crystals and thighs that slipped away like herd of silver minnow and the Arches of Elvira and weeping and people who cut their wrists and an apple and seas that refused to lie in their chains... I was welcome into that world and I never lost it. And tonight I am so proud to be able to render my tiny homage to the great Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, Take This Waltz, Take This Waltz.
***after TAKE THIS WALTZ:
Good night! Good night, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much, friends. 3:2 in the third period.
Oh, we're not going anywhere until the curfew descends, so thank you so much for your warm hospitality.
***before PASSIN' THRU':
'twas a long time ago in Montreal that a friend of mine named Mike Doddman invited me to join a group called, "The Buckskin Boys". It was the first musical group that I ever was in, that I got paid for... Then in a high-school band playing second clarinet... He was playing lead guitar. Mike Doddman was playing the harmonica. Another guy named Terry was playing the bucket bass. Michael Doddman has crossed over... it's many years... His brother and sister are in the audience tonight. I welcome them... And I dedicate this song to the memory of Mike Doddman and the Buckskin Boys.
***after PASSIN' THRU':
Ah, thank you so much for your hospitality. We really appreciate it.
***before SISTERS OF MERCY:
It was about a 1,000 years ago in Edmonton that I met these two young women in a doorway during a snowstorm. Their names were Barbara and Lorraine. They had nowhere to sleep, so I invited them back to my hotel room. A generous chap that I am!
***after SISTERS OF MERCY:
Bobby Furgo on the violin!
***during I TRIED TO LEAVE YOU:
Paul Ostermayer on the saxophone, flute and the keyboard! Bobby Metzger - electric guitar! Bobby Furgo - violin and keyboards! Miss Perla Batalla! Mr Bill Ginn on the keyboards! Miss Julie Christensen! Mr Jorge Calderon on the bass! Steve Meador, father of four on the drums!
***after WHITHER THOU GOEST:
Thank you so much for this evening, friends! G-d bless you. Hope to see you again some time.
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DiLeCo 2009
Last rev. 21Aug09