"You Want It Darker"
Leonard Cohen's song "You Want It Darker" explores themes of faith, love, death, and life, and the speaker's struggle with the morality of a God who permits suffering. The song's lyrics include references to the Holocaust, the Crucifixion of Christ, and the speaker's own mortality.
The song is about Cohen’s struggles and eventual reconciliation with faith as he faces death. In the song, Cohen doesn’t really doubt that God exists. Rather, he struggles with doubt that God is good. The backdrop is that the song was written and recorded in the last years of his life, when Cohen was becoming increasingly ill with leukaemia and coming to terms with his impending death.
You Want It Darker - YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6fvzGIBfQ
An interesting concept - I never rely thought that God wasn't good. Generally God and the Devil are depicted as separate entities - maybe they are one and the same.
"You Want It Darker"
Leonard Cohen's song "You Want It Darker" explores themes of faith, love, death, and life, and the speaker's struggle with the morality of a God who permits suffering. The song's lyrics include references to the Holocaust, the Crucifixion of Christ, and the speaker's own mortality.
The song is about Cohen’s struggles and eventual reconciliation with faith as he faces death. In the song, Cohen doesn’t really doubt that God exists. Rather, he struggles with doubt that God is good. The backdrop is that the song was written and recorded in the last years of his life, when Cohen was becoming increasingly ill with leukaemia and coming to terms with his impending death.
You Want It Darker - YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6fvzGIBfQ
An interesting concept - I never rely thought that God wasn't good. Generally God and the Devil are depicted as separate entities - maybe they are one and the same.