BOOGIE STREET
LEONARD COHEN
SONGWRITERS: LEONARD COHEN &
SHARON ROBINSON
COUNTRY: CANADA
ALBUM: THE NEW
SONGS
LABEL: COLUMBIA
RECORDS
GENRE: FOLK
YEAR: 2001
Ten New Songs é o décimo álbum de estúdio de Leonard
Cohen, lançado em 2001,
feito em parceria com a cantora, compositora e produtora Sharon Robinson.
Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter and poet active in music since 1967. Cohen has released 13º studio albums and 6 live albums during the course of a recording career lasting almost 50 years,
throughout which he has remained an active poet. His entire catalogue is
available on Columbia Records. His 1967 debut
Songs of Leonard Cohen earned an RIAA gold record; he followed up with three more highly
acclaimed albums: Songs From A Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin For The Old Ceremony (1974), before allowing Phil Spector to produce Death of a Ladies' Man for Warner Bros. Records in 1977. Cohen returned to Columbia in 1979 for Recent Songs, but the label declined to release his next
album, Various Positions (1984) in the US, leaving it to American shops to import it from CBS
Canada. In 1988, Columbia got behind Cohen again and gave full support to I'm Your Man, which brought his career to new heights, and
Cohen followed it with 1992's The Future. Cohen then took a nine-year hiatus, and returned
with Ten New Songs in (2001), which he made with Sharon Robinson, following this with Dear Heather (2004). In 2008 Cohen began touring for the first time
in 15 years and, as well as the release of several live albums, he released Old Ideas (2012) which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart. This was the
highest ranking ever for a Leonard Cohen album, and became his first to top the Canadian
Albums Chart, a feat he repeated with his followup, Popular Problems, released in 2014. His live albums include Live Songs (1973), Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert (1994), Live in London (2009) and Songs from the Road, (2010) from his 2008–2009 world tour, and Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2009).
O
crown of light, o darkened one
I never thought we'd meet
You kiss my lips, and then it's done
I'm back on boogie street
A sip
of wine, a cigarette
And then it's time to go
I tidied up the kitchenette
I tuned the old banjo
I'm wanted at the traffic jam
They're saving me a seat
I'm what I am, and what I am
Is back on boogie street
And o my love, I still recall
The pleasures that we knew
The rivers and the waterfall
Wherein I bathed with you
Bewildered by your beauty there
I'd kneel to dry your feet
By such instructions you prepare
A man for boogie street
O
crown of light, o darkened one?
So come, my friends, be not afraid
We are so lightly here
It is in love that we are made
In love we disappear
Tho' all the maps of blood and flesh
Are posted on the door
There's no one who has told us yet
What boogie street is for
O crown of light, o darkened one
I never thought we'd meet
You kiss my lips, and then it's done
I'm back on boogie street
A sip
of wine, a cigarette
And then it's time to go