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Introduction [Live at the Isle of Wight]

by Leonard Cohen

on Live In London (2009)

Are you guys ready? Everybody ready? Next artist is a novelist, poet, an author and an album recorder, he's been trying to get here since 10:30 yesterday morning... Would you welcome Leonard Cohen...

Greetings, greetings!
When I was seven years old my father used to take me to the
Circus
He had a black mustache and a great vast and pansy in his
Lapel
He liked the circus better than I did
But there was one thing, it happened I always used to wait
For
I don't wanna impose on you, this is not sing along with
Mitch
But there was one moment, a man would stand up and say "Would everybody light a match, so he can locate one and other?"
Could I ask you each person to light a match, so I can see
Where you all are?
Could each of you light a match, so you sparkle like
Fireflies each at different heights? I would love to see
Those matches flare
Oh yea...
Now, I know, I know that you know why you lighting them
Yea...
Thank you
A lot of people without matches
Oh it's good to be here alone in six hundred tousand people
It is a large nation but it is still weak
Still very weak
Needs to be a lot stronger before I claim a right to land