One of Us Cannot Be Wrong

Leonard Cohen

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Intro : I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me. But the room just filled up with mosquitos, they heard that my body was free. Then I took the dust of a long sleepless night and I put it in your little shoe. And then I confess that I tortured the dress that you wore for the world to look through.        I showed my heart to the doctor : he said I just have to quit. Then he wrote himself a prescription, and your name was mentioned in it ! Then he locked himself in a library shelf with the details of our honeymoon, and I hear from the nurse that he's gotten much worse and his practice is all in a ruin. I heard of a saint who had loved you, so I studied all night in his school. He taught that the duty of lovers is to tarnish the golden rule. And just when I was sure that his teachings were pure he drowned himself in the pool. His body is gone but back here on the lawn his spirit continues to drool. An Eskimo showed me a movie he'd recently taken of you : the poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue. I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes and I guess he just never got warm. But you stand there so nice, in your blizzard of ice, oh please let me come into the storm.

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La chanson évoque les réflexions d’un homme éperdument amoureux, tiraillé entre la passion et la douleur de la séparation. Il utilise des métaphores puissantes pour décrire son chagrin, comme une bougie allumée pour susciter la jalousie ou la poussière d'une nuit blanche mise dans la chaussure de l’être aimé. Son dialogue avec un médecin souligne l’absurdité de son état, tandis que l’histoire d’un saint et le film d’un Esquimau apportent une dimension tragique à son amour non partagé. C’est une danse entre l’obsession et la mélancolie, où les souvenirs et les fantasmes se mêlent à la réalité brute.