Dance me to the end of love. Dance Me To The End Of Love: Steyn's Song of the Week :: SteynOnline

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Just like Irving Berlin, the Gershwins and all the rest, Leonard Cohen is a Jewish songwriter

Dance Me to the End of Love

And that's pretty much it for "shove".

Dance Me to the End of Love, Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen: But in this lyric he takes some of the most particularly exhausted words in the universal songwriting lexicon and re-invigorates them
Me to the End of Sheet Music

There are just four and a half rhymes for "love," approximately three-quarters of which offer very meager possibilities: "above," "dove," "glove," "shove," and the half-rhyme "of," pronounced "uv	He was also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour
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Leonard Cohen

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Leonard Cohen
Dance Me To The End Of Love: Steyn's Song of the Week :: SteynOnline: Lyrics begin: "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance Me To The End Of Love: Steyn's Song of the Week :: SteynOnline: Three decades on, it has the makings of a contemporary standard

Or at least that's what I thought it was about when I first got to know the number
	And, to my surprise, my correspondents were right

Me to the End of Sheet Music

After bemoaning the clichés spawned by these four-and-a-half dread rhymes, I filed the column and forgot about it.

Me to the End of Sheet Music
Dance Me to the End of Love Lyrics: And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt
Meaning of Dance Me to the End of Love: It made the rather obvious point that the preoccupations of romantic songs are often restrained by the limited rhymes for the word "love"