ARTWORKS

BACK TO RESEARCH MENU

WORKS / TRIBUTES / STUDIES / ARCHIVES


RESENTMENTS


RESENTMENTS

7 elements

 

Somexki Collection 

6 photographs

Alex Svi

1 question


The question

AND WHO, SHALL I SAY, IS CALLING?

"Who by Fire" is a song

written by Leonard Cohen in the 1970s.

It explicitly references

his Jewish roots, using the lyrics

of the prayer Unetanneh Tokef.

It is a loose adaptation

of the Hebrew prayer "ונתנה תוקף קדושת היום"

"Let us make known the absolute holiness of this day"

recited on Yom Kippur.


And who by fire, who by water

Who in the sunshine, who in the night time

Who by high ordeal, who by common trial

Who in your merry merry month of may

Who by very slow decay

And who shall I say is calling?

 

And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate

Who in these realms of love, who by something blunt

Who by avalanche, who by powder

Who for his greed, who for his hunger

And who shall I say is calling?

 

And who by brave assent, who by accident

Who in solitude, who in this mirror

Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand

Who in mortal chains, who in power

And who shall I say is calling?