Leonard Cohen
6 June 1993
Centennial Hall, London, Ontario, Canada
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TT: 137:00.00
Set One:
01. [05:53.21] //Dance Me to the End of Love
02. [07:07.46] The Future
03. [06:10.40] Ain't No Cure for Love
04. [06:55.18] Bird on the Wire
05. [06:21.00] Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
06. [06:08.51] Anthem
07. [06:34.03] One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
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08. [06:19.01] First We Take Manhattan
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Set Two:
09. [04:33.16] Avalanche
10. [06:03.18] Chelsea Hotel #2
11. [06:55.65] Tower of Song
12. [08:24.17] Democracy
13. [10:09.65] Waiting for the Miracle (Leonard Cohen/Sharon Robinson)
14. [05:52.35] I'm Your Man
15. [06:54.46] Joan of Arc
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16. [07:54.31] Closing Time
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Encore #1:
17. [04:31.09] Suzanne
18. [07:58.45] Take This Waltz (Leonard Cohen after Federico Garcia Lorca)
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Encore #2:
19. [06:25.29] Sisters of Mercy
20. [07:42.59] Hallelujah
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Encore #3:
21. [02:04.60] Whither Thou Goest (Guy Singer after the Book of Ruth 1:16)
t09-10 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:
***after DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE:
Bobby Furgo on the violin!
***before THE FUTURE:
Ah, thank you so much... It makes me forget that I've come with all my bad news: Give me back the Berlin Wall. Give me Stalin and St. Paul. I've seen the future, baby. It is murder!
***after THE FUTURE:
Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***before AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
Thank you. When the Prince of Peace was hanging from the cross, he looked at the people beneath him. Faces of anger, envy, regret, despair, melancholy, he heard the voices shouting out at him, "Hey, get a life!" He felt that a lever had been thrown in the cosmos and nothing would ever be the same again. And he looked down at those faces and I don't know... He just liked them... That's when he knew for certain there ain't no cure for love.
***after AIN'T NO CURE FOR LOVE:
Mr Paul Ostermayer on the saxophone!
***during BIRD ON THE WIRE:
Bobby Metzger on guitar!
Paul Ostermayer on the horn!
***before EVERYBODY KNOWS:
Everybody knows the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody's got this broken feeling like their father or the dog just died.
***after EVERYBODY KNOWS:
Thanks so much.
***before ANTHEM:
So ring the bells that still can ring. There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in. That's how the light gets in.
***before ONE OF US CANNOT BE WRONG:
Thank you so much, friends! About a 1,000 years ago I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. They heard my little body was free.
***before FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN:
Oh, thank you so much... Thank you for the items that you sent me: the monkey and the plywood violin. I've practiced every night and now I am ready: first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
***over FIRST WE TAKE MANHATTAN coda:
We'll be back in 15-20 minutes. Thanks!
***before CHELSEA HOTEL #2:
A long time ago I left Montreal and went to a great hotel in New York City... It wasn't that great hotel! It was a very lonely place and I used to ride the elevator at night and one night I noticed there was a young woman in the elevator, seemed to be very distressed. I said, "Are you looking for someone?" That was a very snappy come-on. She said, "Yes, I'm looking for Kris Kristofferson." I said, "You're in luck, little lady. I'm Kris Kristofferson." Such was the generosity of the times that she never called me on.
***after CHELSEA HOTEL #2:
Ah, it's a real pleasure to sing for you. Thank you so much for your warm reception this evening. We are .... .... .... .
***after TOWER OF SONG:
Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***before DEMOCRACY:
So... great culture affirms other cultures. Great religion affirms other religions. A great language affirms other languages. A great nation affirms other nations. So this is for our friends beneath us, south of the border. Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
***after DEMOCRACY:
Steve Meador on drums!
***before WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE:
Baby, let's get married. 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.
***before WAITING FOR THE MIRACLE:
Mr Paul Ostermayer on the flute! Mr Bill Ginn on the keyboard! Mr Steve Meador on the drums. Mr Jorge Calderon playing double bass! Mr Bobby Metzger on guitar! Mr Bob Furgo on the violin! Miss Perla Batalla! Miss Julie Christensen!
***after I'M YOUR MAN:
.... . .... .... .
***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 g-d damn bright?
***before CLOSING TIME:
Well, we're drinking and we're dancing, but there's nothing really happening. And the place is dead as heaven on a Saturday night. And my very close companion gets me fumbling, get me dancing. She's a 100, but she's wearing something tight. So 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's 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:
It is a great honor and a great privilege to play for you tonight. Thank you so much.
***before TAKE THIS WALTZ:
A long time in a bookstore in Montreal--a second-hand bookstore--I opened this volume and I accepted the poet's invitation to enter a universe of crystals and ants and arches and thighs that slipped away like schools of silver minnow and I've never left this world. I'm in it now. I'm in it tonight. I'm so grateful to the great poet and I render my tiny homage to Federico Garcia Lorca, Take This Waltz.
***after TAKE THIS WALTZ:
Good night, friends! Thank you so much.
***during HALLELUJAH:
Bobby Metzger on the guitar!
Good night, little friends! Thank you!
***during WHITHER THOU GOEST:
I really want to thank you for the wonderful, warm, and hospitable reception you've given all of us this evening. We'll never forget it, friends. We appreciate it so much, so we understand there's a curfew on this hall. .... .... ..... but I just want to say, thank you and G-d bless you. And until the next time, good night.
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DiLeCo 2009
Last rev. 22Aug09