Leonard Cohen - The Goal Lyrics

Smile of defeat..

The truth in it's purest form. Thank you Leonard and rest in peace, you lyrics are your legacy

This is overwhelmingly sad, and yet it is a great man’s perspective on the limitations of the flesh, that there is a time to be born and a time to die, and boy did he sing us through right to the very end. Goodbye old friend, you were quite simply ‘the best’ 🇮🇪🇮🇪

SUBLIME

Frissonnant..

So profound it hurts. I absolutely agree that this is the real winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

88 dislikes are from people who don't understand english

if the goal
falls short of the reach, does that mean you reach your goal?

No, it means the opposite. The goal is further away from what we can reach.

Thanx GOD! This lyrics are killing me!

No word to describe my heart... ♡

I received my cd today!!! So Leonard!! So awesome!!!

With stars bright above me
And the lanterns in front
I lean on the porch gate
And I wait for the storm

The dust in the air
Is like smoke on the streets
Your dance like a fragrance
Greets my memory

As I stretch out my hand
For a breath of your dawn
It is gone like a light
And the night will be long

Some infinite daydreams
Cover me like a coat
They remind me of sunrise
Keep me warm and alone

The dry grass is thirsty
The rainfall is late
Yet the river is frozen
The odds are betrayed

And me at the porch gate
I make love to the sound
Of your laughter in my mind
And the silence so loud

Thank you for the golden gift <3 Have loved you & will always love you...- ástarkveðjur from Iceland - met you there at your amazing concert...one of the best (!) <3

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THAT VOICE....THAT GOLDEN VOICE!

Why you gotta do me like this L. Cohen.

Congratulations. This event makes me no less proud and happy for having made the world's first and only sculpture of Mr. Cohen as a present to the City of Vilnius. Lithuania was the home of his ancestors. And it is a magnificent piece of art as it captures so much of the humble and sincere person he was in my eyes. Go see it!

A most deserving tribute. Thank you. The sculpture by the late Romualdas Kvintas, which I have only seen online, seems, indeed, to capture much of Leonard Cohen's essence.

My bella Eva - I've nothing to teach Except that the goal Falls short of the reach

Superb, and all for us, and with death’s winged chariot hurrying near ❤️🙏🏼❤️

חי חי חי אליעזר כהן אהבה ליאונארד כהן

True Artist, Poetry in Song. GREAT ALBUM.

I move with the leaves
I shine with the chrome
I'm almost alive
I'm almost at home... Thanks Leonard ❤

I do not know who the 86 odd people are who have disliked this.. But I want to find them....

a real wonder ;;;;thanks

Mi commuove fino alle lacrime. Grazie Signor Cohen.

Beautiful many thanks regards Phil.

reminds one of Ian Dury_

BEAUTIFUL💔

I'm sad [*]

Thank you sir. It was a great pleasure meeting you in square Saint-Louis with my son Dom who didn't know who you are! Thank you for letting him off the hook. This song released on the day before your should be birthday is a monument. Montreal will always remember you!

💤🎵💤 ᔕᒪEEᑭᒪEᔕᔕ ᗷᖇEᗩTᕼᒪEᔕᔕ ᖇᕼYTᕼᗰIᑕ ᗰEᒪOᗪY 💤🎵💤🕊

No wonder why Damien Rice admired him so much.

I miss this precious artist in our days, unique all the way the decades before and in the future!💎

........... except that the goal falls short of the reach ...................

why are they always so difficult to unravel his lyrics?

Is he saying that there is no need to go too far because the goal - fulfilment of one's destiny is nearer than one thinks? Or even maybe that he had the ability to go further, his reach was more, but he was actually not asked to go this far?

AAH thank you for your concise, precise explanation . Both of your reactions though seemingly contradictory ring true.

He reverts the more usual "the reach falls short of the goal". So we could maybe interprete as: there is no greater meaning or great goal to life. All the reaching we do has no higher purpose/goal. Maybe he wants to teach to just live in the moment as that is all there is?

I also like your first interpretation, that everyones goals is reachable.

Leonard - so sincere & bright! You poetry & velvet voice will never die ...

Très beau

I can't leave my house
Or answer the phone
I'm going down again
But I'm not alone

Settling at last
Accounts of the soul
This for the trash
That paid in full

As for the fall, it
Began long ago
Can't stop the rain
Can't stop the snow

I sit in my chair
I look at the street
The neighbor returns
My smile of defeat

I move with the leaves
I shine with the chrome
I'm almost alive
I'm almost at home

No one to follow
And nothing to teach
Except that the goal
Falls short of the reach

I feel sadness for myself because I will never ever be as good a poet as Cohen.

Don't worry, that's true for probably everyone. As Cohen himself put it: "Just because you can't write like Shakespeare that doesn't mean you shouldn't be writing."

🙄💖💖 great!

never fails to send shivers down my spine

I loved him and miss him too. I agree with Jarias B. that he deserves the Nobel Prize; perhaps in Poetry.

Poetry is part of Literature. And the prize should be given not to the best literature work but to the work that has done the best to humankind. That Cohen did.

I am sure the ones who used me a pawn will be in fear. I am ..

And I'm sobbing. My soul will forever have an empty place in it until I meet you in Heaven.

How sadly beautiful or beautifly sad it is.

THANK you !!!

I miss you so much !!!!! A genius is gone but stay in our heart

Gorgeous lyrics. Thanks for sharing. 🙂🎸

...."Indeed that the goal falls short of the reach" yet I have not heard any one reaching so far .the nobel will come too..

'except that the goal falls short of the reach' - it is advice . That the goal lies not just within reach but way within reach - that to whoever this is addressed , they are well capable of achieving their destiny. That is the way I read it.

And only the living are awarded the Nobel prize - those are the rules.

❤️❤️❤️

Each line as bullet 🍻

Leonard forever <3 I miss him. 
Thanks to Adam for creating this.

I never had a song go straight to my heart and soul like this one did. It was as if Mr. Cohen looked straight to the inside of me and wrote what I have not been able to. Even after passing, he is still making an impact on the world.

I love you.

The goal falling short of the reach means that one can reach/achieve more than their goals.

Or that our goals, as we conceive them, don't go far enough, are not great or fine enough.

A true national treasure 🇨🇦

Thanks for this divine Cohen channel.Nobody can write poetry like Cohen. I have a channel for my cohen tribute band called St.Lawrence band. You are Welcome to check it out 😊🕊

He crecido escuchando su maravillosa voz, cada disco más profunda y más expresiva.
Nunca entendí nada de lo que cantaba, pero a pesar de todo me transmitía absolutamente todo.
Te echamos de menos Leonard

Yo estaba por copiar la letra y pasarla por un traductor. Al maestro Cohen lo vengo escuchando unos 6 años y siento mucho respeto y admiración por sus canciones. Tiene un estilo propio de escribir canciones que están cargadas de metáforas, hay muchas referencias a grandes escritores y por supuesto a las Sagradas Escrituras.
En algún momento quise entender su sensación por Jesucristo, porque Cohen es judío , pero ahora no me interesa eso, disfruto unas cuantas canciones que a mi modo de ver son geniales porque son extremadamente melancólicas y además en ellas se burla de sí mismo con buen sentido del humor.
Un cordial saludo

Sobre el deseo de entender Cohen escribió un poemma que traducido dice lo siguiente. Me parece genial.
No decodifiques / estos gritos míos / son el camino / y no la señal. …. Tampoco deconstruyas / mi euforia sin drogas / estoy sobrio / pero me gusta volar. / …. / Deja que mi canción, / sin descifrar / reconecte circuitos / mal conectados, / y con mi tintineo / en tu cerebro / permite que el Puente/ se vuelva a arquear.

@Patricia Linn es una maravilla, sus letras, su voz y su increíble sonido

Thank You . . . . .

still on the way to the goal !

Cohen is timeless. 🍃🌹🍃🌹

He still speaks to us. Even in death

Leonard 😞

Raziel indeed it does... for all who choose to wrestle with the Lord God. It's ok, you are David now.

Z nieba śpiew Cohen

Wow that struck a chord. Thank you for sharing.

As I lie here beside my dying husband I listen to this poem over and over and I wonder how much time I have left with him. Will he make it through the winter? Isn't it selfish of me to want him to? Yes. I need to learn to let go. 💔

Moon dancer my sincere deepest sympathies to you, your family & friends at the loss of your husband, thinking of you all at this very difficult time. You had a special bond & you will meet again, he will be with you in spirit. Soft hugs

I've walked in your shoes and my heart goes out to you with deep empathy and love. Just remember that "he will not be gone; only out of sight".

@Moon Dancer I'm so sorry. (((Hugs)))

Very sorry :(

Magnificent in its sparseness. Thank you Adam Cohen for bringing your father's wishes to reality.

Ta bonita

Fuera el Orbito, estimado Leonard ----(@

My heart weeps, so deep, I wish you were for keeps,

Bad ass

Спасибо что не забыли

what a wonderful remarkable poet.....
you are missed by millions Old Friend

Left me speachless, do f...g speachless.

Leonard, my Dear Friend. You sat in my car and forgot about Ibsen. Cherish that memory till the end of time.

Mr Cohen, Leonard, your magic words and voice touch our heart and soul with such a powerful energy like no one else in the universe. The Noble Prize is by far not good enough for You! Thank You, Mr Cohen! You will live forever.
And heaven stood still...

Wow, I'm speechless - so beautiful!!!

I miss him so much, I mean... the world is a worst place without him around us. I've been waiting for this since he left.

Wow. Just...wow.

"The neighbor returns my smile of defeat."
Just this single line beats everything released in music since he left us. So glad to hear this album.

Yes, and even in most music before he passed. This is rare.

The only one that can sing Cohen's Hallelujah is k.d.lang.
She is the greatest
singer in any genre.
Molly Kafes

I can’t find the words to express how beautiful this is...

Extended version! When the song ends add the piano from the background as solo and a bit violin would be perfect! Love to Cohen, rest well...

Miss him.

Que buena mi cantante favorito buena sustritores Manuel Rebolledo eso

A masterful poet who has touched the lives of millions

goosebumps

❤️❤️

Depth. Even right near the end.
We'll miss you Leonard with your insight into the human plight :(

Does it mean there is a posthum CD coming up called Thanks for the dance?! Why so less info in description, how dare you!

Thank you Lenny!