Whether it is or not, I don’t really know. It just seemed to be so open and kind of honest in some way. He added: “This song to me just seemed like a true kind of confessional song. I started to that myself and became kind of infatuated with the lyric at that point. She’d listen to Songs of Love and Hate over and over again. “She used to play Leonard Cohen in her room with burning candles and all that sort of stuff. “I lived in Wangaratta and I had a friend called Anne Baumgarten, she was quite a morbid kind of creature,” explains the equally morbid creature, Cave, who has never been afraid to show his darker side. “I remember listening to this song when I must have been 11 or 12,” he said. Speaking with ABC’s Richard Kingsmill in 1994, the singer revealed the impact Leonard Cohen’s 1971 album track ‘Famous Blue Raincoat’ had on him as a kid. Seeing him evolve from a young boy in Wangaratta into the current daddy of rock and roll would likely have never happened if it wasn’t for one song. However, it would be one song in particular that would change the Cave’s life.
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