When Desire Rests
Leonard Cohen * Track #35 On The Flame
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- #1Happens to the Heart
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- #2I Do
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- #3Lambchops
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- #4No Time to Change
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- #5I Didn’t Know
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- #6I Can’t Take It Anymore
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- #7Undertow (The Flame)
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- #8On Rare Occasions
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- #9My Lawyer
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- #10I Can’t Break the Code
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- #11I’m Looking at the Flag
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- #12The Lucky Night!!!!! Sunday March 7, 2004
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- #13He Says He Wants to Kill Us
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- #14Roshi Said
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- #15If There Were No Paintings
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- #16Jan 15, 2007 Sicily Café
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- #17Deprived
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- #18Dimensions of Love
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- #19Full Employment
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- #20I Hear the Traffic
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- #21Homage to Morente
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- #22Homage to Rosengarten
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- #23I’m Always Thinking of a Song
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- #24Roshi’s Poem
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- #25Kanye West Is Not Picasso
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- #26Old Friends
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- #27The Apparent Turbulence
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- #28Watching the Nature Channel
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- #29The Creature
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- #30The Indian Girl
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- #31Mary Full of Grace
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- #32The Los Angeles Times
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- #33You Want to Strike Back and You Can’t
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- #34When You Wake Up
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- #35When Desire Rests
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- #36What Is Coming 2.16.03
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- #37What I Do
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- #38School Days
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- #39The Flowers Hate Us
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- #40Unbiblical
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- #41Winter on Mount Baldy
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- #42Doesn’t Matter
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- #43Grateful
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- #44Antique Song
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- #45Elevator Mirrors
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- #46Listen to the Hummingbird
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- #47I Think I’ll Blame
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- #48My Guitar Stood Up Today
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- #49My Career
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- #50Never Gave Nobody Trouble
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- #51Ordinary Guy with Problems
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- #52Drank a Lot
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- #53Ikkyu
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- #54Flying Over Iceland
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- #55G-d Wants His Song
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- #56All He Knows
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- #57If I Took a Pill
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- #58Moving On
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- #59Was I Alone
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- #60Come and See
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- #61Thanks for the Dance
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- #62A Street (The Flame)
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- #63I Pray for Courage
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- #64
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- #65Innermost Door
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- #66The Golden Gate
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- #67Half the Perfect World
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- #68Nightingale
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- #69No One After You
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- #70Never Got to Love You
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- #71The Mist
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- #72Crazy to Love You
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- #73Thanks for the Dance
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- #74
Going HomeLeonard Cohen
- #75Amen
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- #76Show Me the Place
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- #77
DarknessLeonard Cohen
- #78Anyhow
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- #79Crazy to Love You
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- #80Come Healing
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- #81Banjo
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- #82Lullaby
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- #83
Different SidesLeonard Cohen
- #84
SlowLeonard Cohen
- #85
Almost Like the BluesLeonard Cohen
- #86Samson in New Orleans
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- #87A Street
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- #88Did I Ever Love You
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- #89My Oh My
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- #90Nevermind
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- #91Born in Chains
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- #92
You Got Me SingingLeonard Cohen
- #93
You Want It DarkerLeonard Cohen
- #94
TreatyLeonard Cohen
- #95
On the LevelLeonard Cohen
- #96Leaving the Table
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- #97If I Didn’t Have Your Love
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- #98Traveling Light
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- #99It Seemed the Better Way
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- #100Steer Your Way
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- #101Acceptance Address for the Prince of Asturias Award
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When Desire Rests by Leonard Cohen
Performed by
Leonard CohenWhen Desire Rests Annotated
You know I'm looking at you
you know what I'm thinking
you know you're interested
I am very skillful
you will forget that I am old
unless you want to remember it
unless you want to see
what happens to desire
how free it becomes
how shamelessly involved in love
for every woman
and her stockings.
When desire rests,
it is signaled by two people
faraway on a green blanket
(or is it the flowers of moss);
two people waving from a distance
stretched out like things
that have to dry
with tender smiles on their
little round faces;
waving at desire
as it rests in the foreground
foothill-shaped, peaceful,
devoted as a dog made of tears.