Yom Kippur puts me in a reflective mood as its designed to do. Each year around this time I find myself putting Leonard Cohen's New Skin for The Old Ceremony on the turntable as I contemplate the past year and the look forward to the next. "Who by Fire" explicitly relates to Cohen's Jewish roots, echoing the words of the Unetanneh Tokef prayer and sung as a duet with Janis Ian (also Jewish; her birth name was Janis Eddy Fink).
Who By Fire
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