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Riff: Leonard Cohen – “Samson in New Orleans”

Sep 23, 2014

There’s other ways to answer/That certainly is true/Me, I’m blind with death and anger/And that’s no place for you/There’s a woman in the window/And a bed in Tinsel Town/I’ll write you when it’s over/Let me take this temple down

from Sampson in New Orleans lyrics by Leonard Cohen

Lost in New Orleans with nothing but faith, gut and instincts to guide him, there’s an undefinable air of tragedy and destruction – thanks to a band of weepy strings – that resonates from all angles. It gives off a somber, post apocalyptic feel that only a teddy bear like Cohen could pull off.

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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