Introduction - Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK
are you guys ready?
everybody ready?
next artist is a novelist, poet, an author and an album recorder, he's been trying to get here since 10: 30 yesterday morning...
would you welcome Leonard Cohen ...
Greetings, greetings!
When I was seven years old my father used to take me to the circus.
He had a black mustache and a great vast and pansy in his lapel.
He liked the circus better than I did.
But there was one thing, it happened I always used to wait for.
I don't wanna impose on you, this is not sing along with mitch.
But there was one moment, a man would stand up and say would everybody light a match, so he can locate one and other.
Could I ask you each person to light a match, so I can see where you all are?
Could each of you light a match, so you sparkle like fireflies each at different heights, I would love to see those matches flare.
Oh yea...
Now, I know, I know that you know why you lighting them.
Yea...
Thank you.
A lot of people without matches.
Oh it's good to be here alone in six hundred tousand people.
It is a large nation but it is still weak.
Still very weak.
Needs to be a lot stronger before I claim a right to land.
everybody ready?
next artist is a novelist, poet, an author and an album recorder, he's been trying to get here since 10: 30 yesterday morning...
would you welcome Leonard Cohen ...
Greetings, greetings!
When I was seven years old my father used to take me to the circus.
He had a black mustache and a great vast and pansy in his lapel.
He liked the circus better than I did.
But there was one thing, it happened I always used to wait for.
I don't wanna impose on you, this is not sing along with mitch.
But there was one moment, a man would stand up and say would everybody light a match, so he can locate one and other.
Could I ask you each person to light a match, so I can see where you all are?
Could each of you light a match, so you sparkle like fireflies each at different heights, I would love to see those matches flare.
Oh yea...
Now, I know, I know that you know why you lighting them.
Yea...
Thank you.
A lot of people without matches.
Oh it's good to be here alone in six hundred tousand people.
It is a large nation but it is still weak.
Still very weak.
Needs to be a lot stronger before I claim a right to land.
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Writer(s): Olivier Eugene Prospe Messiaen
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- Intro to Poems - Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK
- Lady Midnight - Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK
- They Locked Up a Man (Poem) / A Person Who Eats Meat / Intro - Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK
- One of Us Cannot Be Wrong - Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK
All Album Tracks: Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 >
Altri album
- Under The Marble (Live New York '85)
- You Want it Darker (Satori Remix (Radio Edit)) - Single
- Teacher Of The Heart (Live)
- Songs of Fire and Ice (Live 1988)
- Freedom Soon Will Come (Live 1988)
- Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (2022)
- A Poet In Germany (Live 1979)
- Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums
- From The Silence (Live 1993)
- A Poet In Amsterdam (Live)
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