Leonard Cohen: Joan of Arc Meaning

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   Dec 25th, 2016 12:55pm report

   
   

   She was a revolutionary, so was he. She was humiliated in the square....and him....I need to learn more. One thing for sure...he was a soul inspiring individual and I love to listen to his music

   
   
   
   

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   Jul 4th, 2014 7:36am report

   
   

   "Joan Of Arc"
   
   Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc
   as she came riding through the dark;
   no moon to keep her armour bright,
   no man to get her through this very smoky night.
   She said, "I'm tired of the war,
   I want the kind of work I had before,
   a wedding dress or something white
   to wear upon my swollen appetite."
   Well, I'm glad to hear you talk this way,
   you know I've watched you riding every day
   and something in me yearns to win
   such a cold and lonesome heroine.
   "And who are you?" she sternly spoke
   to the one beneath the smoke.
   "Why, I'm fire," he replied,
   "And I love your solitude, I love your pride."
   
   "Then fire, make your body cold,
   I'm going to give you mine to hold,"
   saying this she climbed inside
   to be his one, to be his only bride.
   And deep into his fiery heart
   he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
   and high above the wedding guests
   he hung the ashes of her wedding dress.
   
   It was deep into his fiery heart
   he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
   and then she clearly understood
   if he was fire, oh then she must be wood.
   I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
   I saw the glory in her eye.
   Myself I long for love and light,
   but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?

   
   
   
   

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