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Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
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His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
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My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
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