Thanks for the Dance

Leonard Cohen * Track #61 On The Flame

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Album The Flame

ALBUM

Leonard Cohen

2018

Thanks for the Dance by Leonard Cohen

Performed by

Leonard Cohen

Produced by

Adam Cohen

Writed by

Anjani & Leonard Cohen

About

Zen Buddhist, Richard Aitken, in his book The Mind of Clover; writes about dealing with difficulties, and the two options we have to respond with. To resist or to dance. To resist means to wish for things to be differently, to protest against that which is beyond our control. The second option is to...

Thanks for the Dance Lyrics

Thanks for the dance
I'm sorry you're tired
The evening has hardly begun

Thanks for the dance
Try to look inspired
One-two-three, one-two-three, one

There is a rose in your hair
Your shoulders are bare
You've been wearing this costume forever
So turn up the music
Pour out the wine
Stop at the surface
The surface is fine
We don't need to go any deeper

Thanks for the dance
I hear that we're married
One-two-three, one-two-three, one
Thanks for the dance
And the baby you carried
It was almost a daughter or a son

And there's nothing to do
But to wonder if you
Are as hopeless as me
And as decent
We're joined in the spirit
Joined at the hip
Joined in the panic
Wondering if
We've come to some sort
Of agreement

It was fine, it was fast
We were first, we were last
In line at the
Temple of Pleasure
But the green was so green
And the blue was so blue
I was so I
And you were so you
The crisis was light
As a feather

Thanks for the dance
It was hell, it was swell, it was fun
Thanks for all the dances
One-two-three, one-two-three, one

Thanks for the Dance Q&A

Who wrote Thanks for the Dance's ?

Thanks for the Dance was written by Anjani & Leonard Cohen.

Who produced Thanks for the Dance's ?

Thanks for the Dance was produced by Adam Cohen.

What did Leonard Cohen say about "Thanks for the Dance"?

He tried to get a version of it on Old Ideas and Popular Problems, and on You Want It Darker. He’d been even trying to figure out his way of doing that song for years, and I think that he would have been incredibly pleased with this particular version. It was meant to evoke things like ‘Dance Me to...

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