Song des Tages: Dance Me To The End Of Love

(Leonard Cohen: "Dance Me To The End Of Love", aus dem Album "Various Positions", 1984)

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love

Oh, let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love.

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Anmerkung: Leonard Cohen sagte in einem Interview über diesen Song: "(...) that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, 'Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin', meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation."

Mehr muss ich zu diesem Lied nicht schreiben - vielleicht mit Ausnahme des schnöden Hinweises, dass es sich bei dem verlinkten Video nicht um die Originalversion aus dem Jahr 1984 handelt, sondern um eine wesentlich intensivere Neuaufnahme, die Leonard Cohen vor noch nicht allzu langer Zeit eingespielt haben dürfte.