Leonard Cohen

Leonard danced LIFE

                                                                                                                                      Photo by EUROPAPRESS

Have you ever heard the song

"Dance Me to the End of Love"?

"Dance Me to the End of Love"

is a 1984 song by Leonard Cohen.

After listening to it, ...

Do you think it is a love song?

Probably your answer is ... YES.

However, 

let me tell you that originally it is NOT a love song!!

Do you know the real origin of this song?

Although it is considered as a LOVE SONG,

"Dance Me to the End of Love"

was in fact inspired by the HOLOCAUST.

In an interview, Cohen said of this song:

"... it's curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that's why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it's not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity." 

LEONARD COHEN

Original Version of "Dance Me to the End of Love"

In short, 

Leonard Cohen danced LIFE to the end of love.

As simple or as complicated as that.

Rest in Peace,

 Maestro.

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Further Information.-

You can check the LYRICS of the song 

in both languages (English & Spanish).