The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #134179 Message #3052827
Posted By: GUEST,Alan Whittle
13-Dec-10 - 06:49 PM
Thread Name: Leonard Cohen Depressing?
Subject: RE: Leonard Cohen Depressing?
'your metaphor lacks merit'
a bit like the wind howls like a hammer....would that be a sledge hammer, a masonry hammer, a steam hammer, a rammer hammer ding dong....?
A good name for a group though.... Big Al and the Howling Hammers.
while Susanne holds the mirror....I've wondered about that one too.
Its not so much . that i look to these guys to analyse my life and problems - like I did when I was a kid. or perhaps I looked to their words like a mantra.
I suppose whats fundamentally depressing is the grandiosity of the language. I guess they were a bit like Dylan thomas's pub conversations - hypnotising at the time and place. but after closing time, out in the real world, they didn't have any answers.