Leonard Cohen has had a long and illustrious career as a poet and a songwriter. The Canadian songwriter has written many popular songs, and we all have at least one of his tunes stored up in the recesses of our minds. However, there are a certain few of Cohen's that stand above the rest. Songs that were hits, and songs that in fact helped shape the period of time they were created in. "Suzanne", "Bird …showed first 75 words of 1039 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1039 total…society's greedy claws, which threaten to suck us all in. Through amazing imagery and compelling emotion, Leonard Cohen has communicated his view on society to us by not merely telling us facts and opinions, but by putting his views on a human level, and connecting them with a man with whom we can associate with and emotionally identify with. This is an inspiring song and a prime example of Leonard Cohen and his great work.