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Riff: Leonard Cohen – “Did I Ever Love You”

Sep 23, 2014

Did I ever leave you/Was I ever able/Are we still leaning/Across the old table

from Did I Ever Love You lyrics by Leonard Cohen

Like a boss Cohen’s not afraid to ask himself the tough questions. It’s a battle that can tell you a lot about yourself and in this case inspire a man to examine his own ability to love. His grizzled voice and the pain that radiates suggest that it’s taken its toll. At the very least though he tried.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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