It's four in the morning, the end of December I'm writing you now just to see if you're better New York is cold, but I like where I'm living There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening. I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record. Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear Did you ever go clear? Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder You'd been to the station to meet every train And you came home without Lili Marlene. And you treated my woman to a flake of your life And when she came back she was nobody's wife. And what can I tell you my brother, my killer What can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you. I'm glad you stood in my way. If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.


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It is the sixth track on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate , released in The song is written in the form of a letter many of the lines are written in amphibrachs. The lyric tells the story of a love triangle among the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the male addressee, who is identified only briefly as "my brother, my killer. Cohen lived on Clinton Street in Manhattan in the s when it was a lively Latino area. In Cohen said that "it was a song I've never been satisfied with". In the liner notes to 's The Best of Leonard Cohen , which includes the song, he mentions that the famous blue raincoat to which he refers actually belonged to him, and not someone else:. I had a good raincoat then, a Burberry I got in London in Elizabeth thought I looked like a spider in it.
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It is the sixth track on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in The song is written in the form of a letter many of the lines are written in amphibrachs. The lyric tells the story of a love triangle among the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the male addressee, who is identified only briefly as "my brother, my killer. His work often explored religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. He was also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In Cohen received Prince of Asturias Award for literature.