multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum.

“Show Me the Place” from Leonard Cohen’s new album Old Ideas, to be released January 31 on Columbia.

man this SONG! for example: ‘there were chains, so i hastened to behave…there were chains so i loved you like a slave” i mean.

also this (leonard!!) “As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice,” Cohen said in October, hinting at what kinds of topics he wrote about for the new album. “And the instructions were these … Never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity & beauty.”