2025 Competition Entry:

I Like Leonard Cohen by Damian

Genre

Blues

Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

Mishkin Fitzgerald was the vocalist

Description

The references are to Greek Mythology. I like Leonard Cohen is an upbeat cheery song about coming to terms with one’s mortality. People have long equated listening to Leonard Cohen to being in a dark place, this song supports that perception.

Bio

As an independent writer and lyricist my career began in 2013,with the writing of my first musical. I have a great interest in writing musicals, songs, and plays with music, often of a political nature. As a lyricist, I have written over fifty songs. In January 2017, my first musical ‘Running Mate’ was staged at the Actor’s Church in Covent Garden. ‘The Hackers Opera’ was presented in the Brighton festival of the same year, which sold out. I’ve since written a book about the Peter Green impersonation case called Blues Men I Have Buried, and staged a further two musicals in London and Brighton, both of which sold out.
After traveling the world through serving in the Royal Signals during the seventies, I moved to South East Asia to run a cabaret theatre before returning to the UK and settling in Brighton. I was an active man, a horticulturalist by trade, but that all changed in 2013 when I suffered a stroke.
This forced me to adjust to a more sedentary lifestyle and, after an adjustment period, I decided to persue this other great interest of mine – writing and musical theatre.

Lyrics

Oh, I like Leonard Cohen


I’m looking for somewhere peaceful to lay down my head
I think I might have found it in the land of the dead
I feel the storms of life are passing away
I might just be embarking on an endless holiday

– Chorus-

Oh I like Leonard Cohen
Going Down Down Down
And I know where I’m goin’
To a place underground
There’ll be a dog to meet me
And a river I must cross
Then Pluto he will greet me
In the land of the lost


I hope that they will send me
To the fields of Asphodel
I do not want to spend
My only holiday in Hell

All I have to do now
Is stick right to the plan
And bite upon this heavy coin
To pay the ferry man

– Chorus-

Oh I like Leonard Cohen
And the lights begin to dim
there’s a cold wind blowin’
On a life that seems so grim
This is the only way that im leaving town
I know where I’m goin’
Im going down, down, down

Instrumental

– Chorus-

Oh I like Leonard Cohen
Down down down
I know just where I’m goin’
to a place underground
There’ll be a dog to meet me
And a river I must cross
Then Pluto he will greet me
In the land of the lost

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