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Love Itself - [Leonard Cohen]

from Wintery Mix 2017 by Travis Knapp

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from "Ten New Songs" [2001]

This recording in memory of Mr. Leonard Cohen 1934-2016

As Cohen explains, "'Love Itself' is a kind of central song -- not that I expect anybody to study the record with any intensity because it took a long time to write -- but, the record does have a kind of development and that's one of the central songs which describes an experience where that self is dissolved for a moment; that mask is taken off; and, when that happens, '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.' So, that love that I'm speaking there is not the opposite of hate and it's not romance; it's the kind of love that embraces ordinary love and spiritual love and all the requirements of the mind to wrap itself around the word, 'love,' because, in this kind of experience, that tyranny is dissolved and even the need to love is dissolved. So, that's where real relaxation arises. When all the requirements of spiritual perfection, all the ambition of spiritual aspiration, are dissolved and you can just relax into ordinary humanness."

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from Wintery Mix 2017, released December 24, 2016

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"Hopeful soul-lifting acoustic folk music rooted in pop, jazz, soul, and gospel - piano/banjo/guitar/vocals; from the fields, forests, ponds, and meadows of Ithaca, NY."

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