My version of the oft-covered Leonard Cohen classic.

Here's a song from my CD release, "Roomful of Ghosts"

Here's a tune from my new CD, ROOMFUL OF GHOSTS, released January, 2009. This is a live, raw, stripped-down version of the song, very different from the version that appears on the CD... why, heck, there ain't even any REVERB being used here! So, hope you can enjoy it for what it is: just a guy in a room singing a song. No frills. For more info on the release: http://cdbaby.com/cd/sammbennett And... wanna see my photographs? Go here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flapjax_at_midnite/ *********************** LIFE life is a series of conflicting desires you want to stay out of the frying pan but you don't want to land in the fire you want to find the perfect mate of course you also want to be free conflicting desires as far as the eye can see as far as the eye can see life is a total disaster of what you call "epic proportions" they make you jump through all kinda hoops while you do your contortions there's a lways a landlord there's always some rent to pay another little disaster each and every day each and every day each and every day life is a noisy party next door when you're trying to sleep life is a whispered promise in your ear that you know she won't keep day by day and night by night we're just trying to beat the clock at the end of the day you're another day older with another new hole in your sock another new hole in your sock another new hole in your sock now they say life is what you make it i've heard it said a million times but life is what everyone else makes it, too and there's often no reason or rhyme you say you're a self made man yeah sure, go tell it to your mother and bartender, whatever you're pouring i believe i'll have another i believe i'll have another copyright p & c Samm Bennett / Directional Music (BMI)

This is played using strictly 2 chords! It's a McNally 'Grand' strumstick I'm playing. GONE GONE GONE that train's pulled out and my woman's gone too now i'm another day older don't know what can i do i can't believe she's gone her love was powerful stuff like a moth around a light bulb i just couldn't get enough but she's gone gone gone gone gone gone is she coming back again ain't no way to know i'm watching the paint peel going down slow it's just day after day and night after night don't nothing fit together don't nothing seem right cause she's gone gone gone gone gone gone the rabbit's in the hole and the bird's in the nest sun rises in the east it sets in the west everything is in it's place but i can't play my part with this crazy dagger that she stuck in my heart she's gone gone gone gone gone gone copyright 2009 Samm Bennett / all rights reserved ********************************************