Just to prove I'm not a complete chrome-hearted cynic

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Some of my favourite non-bitter, non-twisted, non-angry lyrics from love songs:

I'm not looking for another as I wander in my time
Walk me to the corner, our steps will always rhyme (Leonard Cohen, 'Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye')

There are a thousand things about me I want only you to know (The Indigo Girls, 'You've Got To Show

I know you might roll your eyes at this, but I'm so glad that you exist (The Weakerthans, 'The Reasons')

Well, you may not be beautiful
But it's not for me to judge
I don't know if you're beautiful
Because I love you too much (The Magnetic Fields, 'Asleep and Dreaming')

What can I compare you to, a window the sun shines through?
Maybe the silver moon, a smile rising
The magic of the fading day, satellites on parade
A toast to the plans we've made to live like kings (The Weepies, 'Take It From Me')

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[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

The song is about Janis Joplin, and was written after her death, so I suspect it's matter-of-fact, but with a twist. And, having listened to a lot of LC, could he finish off a song like that without intending to leave a twist?

LC occasionaly introduces the song with the following tale:

He and Joplin had been staying in the Chelsea (in New York) and had been passing each other in the halls and running into each other in the elevators. In one of these encounters, Joplin, well into her cups, asked Cohen if he had seen Kris Kristofferson (who wrote Me and Bobby McGee). Cohen said he was Kristofferson.

Debauchery apparently ensued.

I am an unabashed Cohen fan. I just spent way too much time reading through lyrics of his songs.