love itself

• leonard cohen parçası...ten new songs albümünde yer alır.
• (bkz: love in itself)
• cohen'in 2001'de yayınlanan on yeni şarkısından sadece biridir ama bazen yeri gelir yinelenir:
  
  "the light came through the window,
  straight from the sun above,
  and so inside my little room
  there plunged the rays of love.
  
  in streams of light i clearly saw
  the dust you seldom see,
  out of which the nameless makes
  a name for one like me.
  
  i’ll try to say a little more:
  love went on and on
  until it reached an open door –
  then love itself
  love itself was gone.
  
  all busy in the sunlight
  the flecks did float and dance,
  and i was tumbled up with them
  in formless circumstance.
  
  i’ll try to say a little more:
  love went on and on
  until it reached an open door –
  then love itself
  love itself was gone.
  
  then i came back from where i’d been.
  my room, it looked the same –
  but there was nothing left between
  the nameless and the name.
  
  all busy in the sunlight
  the flecks did float and dance,
  and i was tumbled up with them
  in formless circumstance.
  
  i’ll try to say a little more:
  love went on and on
  until it reached an open door –
  then love itself,
  love itself was gone.
  love itself was gone. "
• uzak yollardan gelip, sabahın erken vaktinde şehre varıp, eve yalnız girip, kapıyı kapatıp, kahve suyunu ısıtıp, bir de sigara yakıp eve bakarak "ibne kohen" deme şarkısıdır. kohen öyledir.
  
  "then i came back from where i’d been.
  my room, it looked the same,
  but there was nothing left between
  the nameless and the name.."