![]() In a snowstorm in Canada, he met two young female hitchhikers with nowhere to stay. The sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song Oh, I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long From The Sisters of Mercy: This is the only song Cohen wrote in one sitting. Though Cohen would produce dark, funereal imagery at will, all his work is undercut with a wry and playful sense of humour. If you looked too deeply into the process you’d end up in a state of paralysis.” These are sacred mechanics and you have to be careful analysing them as you would never write a line again. ![]() “It is a mysterious process, it involves perseverance and perspiration and sometimes, by some grace, something stands out and invites you to elaborate or animate it. ![]() In an interview with The Irish Times from 2012, Leonard Cohen described his lyric-writing process as a form of "sacred mechanics". ![]()
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