FAMOUS BLUE RAINCOAT        LEONARD COHEN

Leonard Norman Cohen es un poeta, novelista y cantautor canadiense.  Nació el 21 de septiembre de 1934 en Montreal y murió el 7 de noviembre de 2016 en Los Ángeles. Las letras de Cohen son muy emotivas y líricamente complejas. Los temas que trata en sus canciones son el amor, la religión, la política, las relaciones personales, el sexo. Cohen canta con una voz peculiarmente grave. Su música ha influido a muchos otros autores y sus canciones han sido interpretadas por muchos otros artistas. En 2011 recibió el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. La canción Famous blue raincoat está incluida en su tercer disco, “Songs of love and hate”, de 1971. En ella nos habla en forma de carta de un real o supuesto triángulo amoroso

Puedes escuchar  sus emotivas palabras en el acto de recepción del Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en el siguiente enlace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUKu2-QEspQ

LETRA DE LA CANCIÓN

Famous Blue Raincoat, a song by 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
Well, 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