Ooh, I don't think I saw that verse when Googling. Is this another song LC did 5 versions of?

Nope, not really. I mean, standard variations, but not sweeping changes and alternate lyrics. All the lyrics are available at [link] of course.

Can we also have a vid to "I'm only happy when it rains"?

Dude. I'm a huge Garbage fan. That would rock.

Also, Cindy, it's Semisonic.

Lower than the Bronze sex?

The Bronze sex was on that catwalk/second floor structure. Which looks a lot like an alley.

Have also decided, been a HUGE sap, that a Wes/Illyria vid needs to be made to Light as the Breeze.

So I knelt there at the delta
at the alpha and the omega
I knelt there 
like one who believes
and like a blessing come from heaven
for something like a second
I was cured, and my heart
was at ease. 

Damn, I love Cohen. I read his lyrics and his poetry and I collapse in a state of awe from which there is no real return.

Don't know the Cohen song, but here's the lyrics for Lyle Lovett's "Closing Time":

The night she is a true companion
They shuffle in
They hear the sound
But by night's end
It's night's abandon
You look across the floor
Ain't anyone around

Closing time
Unplug them people
And send them home
It's closing time

Now Kenny he's been mixing sound all evening
Sometimes I think that boy
He ain't got no ears
And Kathy's laughing
Kathy's always laughing
Well keep on laughing Kathy
Just make it out of here

Closing time
Unplug them people
And send them home
It's closing time

So stack those chairs upon those tables
And stack those empties upon that bar
And count your money
And count my money
And hear those bottles ringing
You know where you are

Closing time
Unplug them people
And send them home
It's closing time

The night's all that's left behind
You take your part and I'll take mine
And go on home
It's closing time

Rather fitting for the end of the Buffyverse, I thought.

Rather than "Closing Time", I'd go with "The Future" if only for the chorus of:

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

I wouldn't go with the Future, but that's just based on hours spent on lyrics interpretation leading me to conclude that it doesn't suit the mood quite right.

Man, I really should have done a contract just on Cohen while I was at TESC. That would have rocked.

I wouldn't go with the Future, but that's just based on hours spent on lyrics interpretation leading me to conclude that it doesn't suit the mood quite right.

Well, neither does Closing Time. Just a little too . . . . frivolous, I think.

Also, Cindy, it's Semisonic.

Thanks, P-C. I'd wondered if they'd both done it. I don't think the version I heard yesterday sounds like Green Day, anyhow. But I don't know from Semisonic.

Have also decided, been a HUGE sap, that a Wes/Illyria vid needs to be made to Light as the Breeze.

Oh, if the lyrics that followed the above are LatB, then gah, yes. Can you come visit me for a month? We recently emptied all the boxes that were blocking the guest room.

Gandalfe, the only Cohen I have is lyrics and that's a small bit, and it's all Plei's fault, but I'd say that "The Future" is better suited to a season 4 Connor vid, just based on what you posted here. I haven't heard LC's Closing Time, but don't see frivolity in the lyrics themselves, so much as desperation. Is it the melody that's frivolous to you, or am I missing something in the lyrics?

Well, neither does Closing Time. Just a little too . . . . frivolous, I think.

Dude, there's NOTHING frivolous about Closing Time if you examine the combination of lyrics and music. It's half the way to mournful, with a wry sense of humour about it. Perfect wake song.

It's also less abstract, more personal than The Future. The Future isn't a song that plays well with others. The narrator is separate from the apocalypse, a witness to rather than a participant in.