Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offe… - Leonard Cohen

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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

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About Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC, GOQ (21 September 1934 - 7 November 2016) was a Canadian poet, songwriter, singer, and novelist noted for the bold exploration of religion, politics, sexuality, personal relationships and personal isolation in his works.

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Birth Name: Leonard Norman Cohen

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There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

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I have tried in my way to be free.

... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through

Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

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