Speaking of displacement activity

[truepenny]

"it looks like heaven but it feels like rain"

Can anyone place this song lyric for me? It's going around and around in my head, but the rest of the song refuses to follow. (And somehow we got there from Peter Gabriel's "San Jacinto," which ... no, don't even try.)

ETA: My brain finally coughed up the chorus: Leonard Cohen, "Closing Time." Curse you, Evil Sexy Leonard Cohen!

Comments

[twa-in-yin.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually "looks like heaven but it feels like hell".

And yes, evil sexy fiendish Cohen indeed.

[twa-in-yin.livejournal.com]

No, actually (just checked): "looks like freedom but it feels like death".

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Figures.

Aside from inflicting me with random earworms, my brain is cheerfully cavalier about lyrics. If it scans, in it goes.

Thank you!

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Given his tendency to rewrite lyrics on the fly when he's in the mood, it's possible he's done it all these different ways.

So he may well need to be doubly cursed. Or, indeed cursèd, if need be.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

"It's something in between, I guess."

I can see why it would go with a copyedit.

[elisem.livejournal.com]

Curse you, Evil Sexy Leonard Cohen!

*snrch*

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

I confess, that is not my line. I stole it from cristalia.

[taerin.livejournal.com]

The lyric that popped into my head on reading that is "she acts like summer and walks like rain," from Train's "Drops of Jupiter."

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

That's happened to me

Most recent is the Johnny Jump Up Irish drinking son and another Irish song that goes in completely the opposite direction called The World Of Midnight >.> my brain is schizo