通向真爱的路从无坦途。

The course of true love never did run smooth. 

——[英]威廉·莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)《仲夏夜之梦》

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•Leonard Cohen(莱昂纳德·科恩)

•加拿大演员、歌手、作词作曲、编剧、小说家、艺术家、诗人

•出生日期:1934年09月21日

•逝世日期:2016年11月07日

•《Love Itself》选自其专辑《Ten New Songs》

•发行时间:2001年10月09日 

•音乐风格:Ballad/Folk Music

•[沉迷于东方玄学的Cohen在自己61岁的时候剃度出家，和音乐完全断绝了关系,此专辑正是他结束僧侣生活、修行之后，音乐和精神的回归]

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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[#]1

[#]All busy in the sunlight

The flecks did float and dance

And I was tumbled up with them

In formless circumstance[#]2

[#][#]1

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.

[#][#]1

[#][#]2

Love itself. Love itself was gone

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