If It Be Your Will

Went to church in the morning and then a fine lunch with my daughter's in-laws, but the highlight of the day has to be going to see Leonard Cohen (80 next year) in his Old Ideas Tour at the NEC - a dream come true. He was absolutely superb - I could rave for ages, but love this quote from a review by Carole:

His voice has aged, less like a fine wine and more like velvet covered gravel swirled in a vat of bourbon and then coated in ground glass. So low it reverberates in your feet, your heart and other places.

Sometimes a singer, sometimes a growling poet, crooning and seductive, plaintive and broken but always fascinating, riveting, mesmerising.

He is such a generous performer - he gave 7 extra songs in the encores. And - we bought the cheapest £25 tickets, and then were asked to move to £75 seats because "Mr Cohen doesn't like to see empty seats at the front" - that made rather a difference in an audience of 6,500 people.

If it be your will
That I speak no more
And my voice be still
As it was before
I will speak no more
I shall abide until
I am spoken for
If it be your will