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Cohen, Leonard - Dance me to the end of love
Identifier
003555
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The New Yorker: Interview with Leonard Cohen October 17, 2016 Issue - By David Remnick
“Some nights, one is raised off the ground, and some nights you just can’t get off the ground. And there’s no point in lying about it. And …. it says in the Kabbalah . . ….. that if you can’t get off the ground you should stay on the ground! No, it says in the Kabbalah that, unless Adam and Eve face each other, God does not sit on his throne, and somehow the male and female parts of me refuse to encounter one another tonight—and God does not sit on his throne.”
When I asked him if he intended his performances to reflect a kind of devotion, he hesitated before he answered.
“Does artistic dedication begin to touch on religious devotion?” he said. “I start with artistic dedication. I know that if the spirit is on you it will touch on to the other human receptors. But I dare not begin from the other side. It’s like pronouncing the holy name—you don’t do it. But if you are lucky, and you are graced, and the audience is in a particular salutary condition, then these deeper responses will be produced.”
A description of the experience
Leonard Cohen - Dance me to the end of love
Dance Me To The End Of Love"
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
The source of the experience
Cohen, LeonardConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
SonglinesSymbols
Bride and bridegroomChildren
Curtain
Dance, the
Dove
Fiddles
Hieros Gamos
Musical instrument
Olive tree
Tent
Thread
Throne
White gloves
Witnesses
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Extreme unhappinessSuppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldContemplation and detachment
Listening to music
LOVE
Making love