Famous Blue Raincoat -Leonard Cohen

어느날은 진종일 음악만 듣고 싶은 때가 있죠.

오늘 밤이 그러네요.  운동 잘 하고 와서는 씻지도 않고 그냥 컴퓨터 앞에 앉아서는...(땀이 젖산 발효중 ㅋㅋ)

음악은 글보다 훨씬 선동적인지라, 첨엔 돌아오는 길에 생각난 이 노래 한곡만 듣고 씻을라 했는데,

줄줄이 그리운 노래들이 떠오르는 거예요.

많이 자제한 거랍니다.

 

들으면 가슴이 저려오는, 가사를 음미하면 더욱 그러한, 음유시인이라 불리는 Leonard Cohend의 노래예요.

가사 자체가 아주 잘 쓰여진, 완결된 시네요. 그래서 가사를 올렸지요. 

 

예전에 듣던 노래들이 자꾸 생각나는 건 왜일까요?  아마도 늙는다는 증거겠죠? 후후...

 

 

 

 

 

Famous Blue

 Raincoat

            - Leonard Cohen -

                                      

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you You looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake --

She sends her regards.
And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear

Sincerely L. Cohen

 

레너드 노먼 코헨(Leonard Norman Cohen, 1934년 9월 21일 ~ )은 캐나다의 시인이자 소설가, 싱어송라이터이다. 퀘벡 주 몬트리올의 유태계 가정에서 태어났다. 〈Suzanne〉, 〈I'm your man〉, 〈Hallelujah〉, 〈Famous blue raincoat〉 등의 노래로 잘 알려져 있으며, 〈Bird on a wire〉는 동명의 영화가 제작되기도 했다. 한국에서는 〈Dance me to the end of love〉가 번안되기도 했다. (daum백과 사전에서...)