Listen to my very raw and unfiltered version of #FamousBlueRaincoat here 🧥☔️ #leonardcohen

How grateful I am to all my coaches and mentors as the results and years of hard work and dedication start to shine ✨

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR8RVvKCOdM/?igsh=MTUwb3BibG8xZHBuYw==

#FamousBlueRaincoat by #LeonardCohen. This song is so important to me.

It’s a break-up song, but somehow Leonard is living in the ruins of his relationship with Jane and his unnamed correspondent. Jane’s independence and freedom saves the song from nihilism, though Leonard the writer is torn between her liberation and his loss. He deflects his desire from her to his friend who caused the break-up, which is pathetic, and simultaneously magisterially forgiving.

In the song, there are useful hints of context - Scientology, scepticism, his friend's promiscuity and poverty. I know men like this, damaged by their beliefs and experiences, but also living creatively, and from my (and Leonard's) point of view, with less inhibition and more success.

I often imagine Famous Blue Raincoat as written about a life I nearly lived, but didn't. And I can't at all make up my mind whether that's good or not. Which is the mood intentionally provoked by the song.

https://youtu.be/DHqqlm9yf7M?si=5mNJE9bJtAooGHjA