Suzanne is the title of a famous Leonard Cohen song contained in his debut album in 1967, whose text was first published in 1966 as a poem.
The song was inspired by visits to the singer duties in Suzanne Verdal, dancer, and her husband, the renowned sculptor Armand Vaillancourt, with an offer of tea and orange slices. Some interpretations say that in this song, Cohen refers to his sexual relationship with Suzanne. In an interview in 1970, however, Cohen said he had never had a relationship with Suzanne and the song contains elements of mixed reality with the imagination - a claim confirmed by Suzanne same in a 2006 interview. According to the reading of Richard Bertoncelli, "the song weaves a visit to his house (the Verdal, ed), near the St. Lawrence River, and fantasies sparked by a visit to a small church of the sailors still in Montreal, de la Chapelle Bonsecours. Met in Montreal, Suzanne had also been inspired by some poems published in Parasites of Heaven (1966): among them was also included the text for future song (inserted at the last minute due to lack of new material), entitled "Suzanne Takes you down. "
As it will in many other songs, Cohen uses biblical metaphors to describe the dream report. The story woven elusive and dreamlike images, combined with the mostly acoustic music and the calm voice of the singer, gives a sense of delicacy that seems to resolve the relationship between spiritual and carnal passion - the most typical theme of the repertoire Cohen. As always in his songs, is a woman to represent iconically the report, by the enigma of her beauty.
addition to the original I have chosen some covers.
version Nick Cave
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