Views : 10,845,821
Genre: Education
Date of upload: May 22, 2015 ^^
Rating : 4.858 (2,245/60,973 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-01-20T11:53:45.644797Z
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When I was diagnosed with mental illness at 18 years of age, I was devastated. It's been a hard road--I won't lie. But my parents were always huge Leonard Cohen fans, and one day my mom read me the famous four lines from Anthem ("Ring the bells....There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in"). She said everyone has cracks and flaws, but if you look at some of the most brilliant people in history, they certainly weren't perfect.
Cracks allow us to feel deeply, both pain AND love, and who wants to be perfect anyway? Bo-ring. It really helped, and she had the four lines engraved for me on a silver pendant (which I still have, despite the fact it has been many years). I feel grateful to my parents, obviously, but also to this brilliant artist whose lyrics make me feel a little less different and broken. RIP Leonard Cohen.
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Listening to this while trying to get through crisis after crisis in my life and yet again Leonard is helping me find courage to go on. I'm drinking my morning tea out of a mug with his portrait and the words "I don't need therapy, I just need to listen to Leonard Cohen" and wearing my black windcheater with the same picture and slogan. I have another difficult day ahead but I'm now feeling I can get through it if I listen to Leonard enough! The two occasions when I saw him perform live in Australia are in my list of top treasured memories. I discovered his poetry before his music and neither will ever die.
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I suppose the last thing LC needs is another comment - but I'm an old man now and his poetry and music has been the "light that gets in" through my many faults and cracks since the early '70s when we were both a lot younger and members of the League of Canadian Poets back in Canada. This is, I believe, the most profound and characteristic off all his works - I last heard him sing it here in Phoenix AZ over a decade ago, and I have had its wonderful, humbling chorus tattooed on my right bicep for a long, long time. Every morning I see it reflected twice in my bathroom mirrors, and I read it and know that this is all I need to know to get me through whatever the day may bring. What an empty world he has left us with.
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@WtW280313
8 years ago
Thanks for all the positive comments. His words and music touch the soul. I've uploaded an HD version of the same video here : https://youtu.be/48AJBXs5dNc I'm sorry to say that I have no influence over the appearance of adverts in this video...they are inserted by YouTube. x
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