Leonard Cohen: Happens To The Heart – videoklip a posztumusz albumhoz

Leonard Cohen zsidó volt és meg is maradt vallásánál, de a hetvenes évektől vonzotta a buddhizmus is, és hatvanévesen, 1994-ben visszavonult a Mohave sivatag határába, a San Gabriel hegységben lévő Mount Baldy Zen Centerbe, ahol 1996-ban zen szerzetessé avatták – a kilencvenes évek végéig maradt is a kolostorban, mielőtt a 2001-es Ten New Songs albummal dicsőségesen visszatért volna a nagyközönség elé. Ezek az elvonultságban töltött évek ihlették a posztumusz lemez nyitódalának, a Happens To The Heartnak a videóját, melyet Sia kliprendezője, Daniel Askill forgatott. „Ez a kisfilm egy csendes, szimbolikus narratívát kínál, hogyan lehet lemondani az egónkról és a hírnév csapdáiról” – mondja klipjéről, melyet a Nowness oldalán mutattak be.

I was always working steady
But I never called it art
I got my shit together
Meeting Christ and reading Marx
It failed my little fire
But it’s bright the dying spark
Go tell the young messiah
What happens to the heart

There’s a mist of summer kisses
Where I tried to double-park
The rivalry was vicious
The women were in charge
It was nothing, it was business
But it left an ugly mark
I’ve come here to revisit
What happens to the heart

I was selling holy trinkets
I was dressing kind of sharp
Had a pussy in the kitchen
And a panther in the yard
In the prison of the gifted
I was friendly with the guards
So I never had to witness
What happens to the heart

I should have seen it coming
After all I knew the chart
Just to look at her was trouble
It was trouble from the start
Sure we played a stunning couple
But I never liked the part
It ain’t pretty, it ain’t subtle
What happens to the heart

Now the angel’s got a fiddle
The devil’s got a harp
Every soul is like a minnow
Every mind is like a shark
I’ve broken every window
But the house, the house is dark
I care but very little
What happens to the heart

Then I studied with this beggar
He was filthy, he was scarred
By the claws of many women
He had failed to disregard
No fable here no lesson
No singing meadowlark
Just a filthy beggar guessing
What happens to the heart

I was always working steady
But I never called it art
It was just some old convention
Like the horse before the cart
I had no trouble betting
On the flood, against the ark
You see, I knew about the ending
What happens to the heart

I was handy with a rifle
My father’s .303
I fought for something final
Not the right to disagree

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az album borítója és számlistája:

Leonard Cohen: Thanks For The Dance (2019)

01 Happens To The Heart
02 Moving On
03 The Night Of Santiago
04 Thanks For The Dance
05 It’s Torn
06 The Goal
07 Puppets
08 The Hills
09 Listen To The Hummingbird