girlactionfigure: Who By Fireלאונרד כהןAnd who by fire, who by waterWho in the sunshine, who in the
girlactionfigure: Who By Fireלאונרד כהןAnd who by fire, who by waterWho in the sunshine, who in the night timeWho by high ordeal, who by common trialWho in your merry merry month of mayWho by very slow decayAnd who shall I say is calling?And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturateWho in these realms of love, who by something bluntWho by avalanche, who by powderWho for his greed, who for his hungerAnd who shall I say is calling?And who by brave assent, who by accidentWho in solitude, who in this mirrorWho by his lady’s command, who by his own handWho in mortal chains, who in powerAnd who shall I say is calling?Based on a melody for the Hebrew prayer “Unetanneh Tokef,” chanted on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when the Book of Life is opened to reveal who will die and by what means. In this duet with folksinger Janis Ian, Cohen conceives his own litany of “the ways you can leave this vale of tears,“ -- source link