Cohen's Blue Raincoat

I listen to music for the peek into the singers soul. To feel what they felt while writing that certain song. Now a lot of songs you can't really feel the feelings of the writer. Others its easy, Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat. Falls directly into that category, its potent and direct. You can feel the pain in his heart as he transits from line to line. The song is describing a love triangle between the writer, a lady named Jane and another man. The song is written in the form of a letter wherein the writer (Cohen) is writing the other man in the love triangle with Jane. In the song Jane is described to be the writers wife or later became his former wife. The song starts of extremely heartfelt and depressing but later as the song carries on the writer thanks the other man stating that it was a blessing he took Jane away from him, she was nothing but trouble and the affair opened up his eyes. The actual Famous Blue Raincoat that he refers to was his. He confirms that it was a great Burberry raincoat that Cohen bought in London that he adored. Weather the story has some truth to it was left unsaid, but it doesn't matter when a song is this heartfelt that it gives you goosebumps it becomes more real than any fact.