a thousand kisses deep

• cohen'in son albümü, ten new songs'tan hoş bir şarkı. sandy için yazılmış. sözleri aşağıdadır.
  
  the ponies run, the girls are young,
  the odds are there to beat.
  you win a while, and then it’s done –
  your little winning streak.
  and summoned now to deal
  with your invincible defeat,
  you live your life as if it’s real,
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  i’m turning tricks, i’m getting fixed,
  i’m back on boogie street.
  you lose your grip, and then you slip
  into the masterpiece.
  and maybe i had miles to drive,
  and promises to keep:
  you ditch it all to stay alive,
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  and sometimes when the night is slow,
  the wretched and the meek,
  we gather up our hearts and go,
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  confined to sex, we pressed against
  the limits of the sea:
  i saw there were no oceans left
  for scavengers like me.
  i made it to the forward deck
  i blessed our remnant fleet –
  and then consented to be wrecked,
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  i’m turning tricks, i’m getting fixed,
  i’m back on boogie street.
  i guess they won’t exchange the gifts
  that you were meant to keep.
  and quiet is the thought of you
  the file on you complete,
  except what we forgot to do,
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  and sometimes when the night is slow,
  the wretched and the meek,
  we gather up our hearts and go,
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  the ponies run, the girls are young,
  the odds are there to beat…
• su altinda opuserek dalan tiplerin derinlik olcmek icin kullandiklari bir yontem de olabilir.
• i’m turning tricks, i’m getting fixed,
  i’m back on boogie street.
• ten new songsdaki tüm şarkılar gibi , sakinlik, dinginlik, huzur saçan şarkı. cohen'in bilmemkaç yaşından sonra zen manastırında geçirdiği meditasyon dolu yılların etkisinde muhtemelen..
• soğuk bir kış gününde, gir sevgilinle yorganın altına, oynaşma, sadece kokla ve hayal et.
  bi de aletin sesini aç iyice, çalsın bu parça. yoksa mizansen eksik kalacak.
• chris botti adlı bir dalyan jazz müzisyeni tarafından da coverlanmış bir şarkıdır. her türlü güzeldir,bunu bilir,bunu söylerim.
• bir de robert frost un stopping by woods on a snowy evening adlı şiirinden esinli bir cohen şarkısıdır.
• yanilmiyorsam the good thief adli guzel filmin yeni versiyonunda bulunan en guzel leonard cohen sarkisi.
• leonard cohen'in, 64. dogumgunu kutladigi 21 eylul 1998'de yazarak dostlarina ve ailesine ithaf ettigi siirden yola cikarak besteledigi sarki. siirin tamami asagidadir:
  
  for those who greeted me *)
  
  1. you came to me this morning
  and you handled me like meat.
  you´d have to live alone to know
  how good that feels, how sweet.
  my mirror twin, my next of kin,
  i´d know you in my sleep.
  and who but you would take me in
  a thousand kisses deep?
  
  2. i loved you when you opened
  like a lily to the heat.
  i´m just another snowman
  standing in the rain and sleet,
  who loved you with his frozen love
  his second-hand physique -
  with all he is, and all he was
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  3. all soaked in sex, and pressed against
  the limits of the sea:
  i saw there were no oceans left
  for scavengers like me.
  we made it to the forward deck
  i blessed our remnant fleet -
  and then consented to be wrecked
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  4. i know you had to lie to me,
  i know you had to cheat.
  but the means no longer guarantee
  the virtue in deceit.
  that truth is bent, that beauty spent,
  that style is obsolete -
  ever since the holy spirit went
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  5. (so what about this inner light
  that´s boundless and unique?
  i´m slouching through another night
  a thousand kisses deep.)
  
  6. i´m turning tricks; i´m getting fixed,
  i´m back on boogie street.
  i tried to quit the business -
  hey, i´m lazy and i´m weak.
  but sometimes when the night is slow,
  the wretched and the meek,
  we gather up our hearts and go
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  7. (and fragrant is the thought of you,
  the file on you complete -
  except what we forgot to do
  a thousand kisses deep.)
  
  8. the ponies run, the girls are young,
  the odds are there to beat.
  you win a while, and then it´s done -
  your little winning streak.
  and summoned now to deal
  with your invincible defeat,
  you live your life as if it´s real
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  9. (i jammed with diz and dante -
  i did not have their sweep -
  but once or twice, they let me play
  a thousand kisses deep.)
  
  10. and i´m still working with the wine,
  still dancing cheek to cheek.
  the band is playing "auld lang syne" -
  the heart will not retreat.
  and maybe i had miles to drive,
  and promises to keep -
  you ditch it all to stay alive
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  11. and now you are the angel death
  and now the paraclete;
  and now you are the savior's breath
  and now the belsen heap.
  no turning from the threat of love,
  no transcendental leap -
  as witnessed here in time and blood
  a thousand kisses deep.
  
  september 21, 1998
• buruk bir huzur hissi veren sarki..