{"id":1817,"date":"2015-12-25T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T11:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2015-12-25T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T11:16:00","slug":"kw-52-2015-leonard-cohen-und-s-p-o-k-e-n-w-o-r-d-s-part-1-und-zwar-einige-von-leonard-cohen-himself-der-liebte-es-einige-seiner-live-songs-mit-spoken-words-zu-garnieren-od","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"KW-52-2015: Leonard Cohen und\/ and \u2026 Spoken Words (Part 2: If It Be Your Will) : Und zwar einige von Leonard Cohen himself. Der liebte es, einige seiner Live-Songs mit &#8222;S p o k e n   W o r d s&#8220; zu garnieren oder diese als eine Art &#8222;Prolog&#8220; einen Song einleiten zu lassen. Ein Song, den Cohen stets mit &#8222;Spoken Words&#8220; begann und der bei allen Konzerten seiner 2008-2013-Welttournee mit dabei war, ist &#8222;If It Be Your Will&#8220;. Dar\u00fcber lieferte er seit Ver\u00f6ffentlichung des Songs auf dem Album &#8222;Various Positions&#8220;  (1984) stets neue &#8222;Spoken Words&#8220;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; mal als &#8222;klassischer Prolog&#8220;, mal als O-Ton im Interview oder als Einleitung f\u00fcr den bei der &#8222;Grand World Tour&#8220; von den Webb-Sisters intonierten Song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/webb-IMG_9938.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1821\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/webb-IMG_9938-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"webb-IMG_9938\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/webb-IMG_9938-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/webb-IMG_9938.jpg 530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Foto: Christof Graf<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Which song you wish you had written?&#8220;, wurde Cohen 1985 vom Q-MAGAZIN gefragt und er lieferte das erste SPOKEN WORD zu dem Song, als er sagte: &#8222;If it be Your Will&#8220;. And I wrote it&#8220;, und erg\u00e4nzte:\u00a0 &#8222;My favorite verse in it is &#8222;All your children here in their rags of light&#8220;, eine \u00e4hnliche Antwort gab er im gleichen Jahr des PAROLES ET MUSIQUE MAGAZINE.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Am 8, M\u00e4rzt 1985 meinte er im Linzer Konzert:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is an old prayer it came to me to rewrite. It&#8217;s about surrendering.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Ein paar Tage sp\u00e4ter am 22. M\u00e4rz in Warschau:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>I don&#8217;t know which side everybody\u2019s on any more, and &#8230;I don&#8217;t really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we&#8217;re on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order. It doesn&#8217;t mean that I don&#8217;t wish you courage in your struggle. There is on both sides of this struggle men of good will. That is important to remember&#8230; on both sides of this struggle. Some struggling for freedom, some struggling for safety. In solemn testimony of that unbroken faith which binds a generation one to another, I sing this song: \u201cIf it be your will\u201d.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; mal als &#8222;klassischer Prolog&#8220;, mal als O-Ton im Interview oder als Einleitung f\u00fcr den bei der &#8222;Grand World Tour&#8220; von den Webb-Sisters intonierten Song. Foto: Christof Graf &#8222;Which song you wish you had written?&#8220;, wurde Cohen 1985 vom Q-MAGAZIN gefragt und er lieferte das erste SPOKEN WORD zu dem Song, als er sagte: &#8222;If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1824,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}