Leonard Cohen On His Inspiration/Provocation For The Original “There ain’t no band-aid big enough to cover up this wound” Opening Lines Of Ain’t No Cure For Love

Allan Showalter

[Did Ain’t No Cure For Love start out] about the SALT Treaty?

 

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Actually, one of the things on my mind was that I was very pissed off at Band Aid, this moment in musical history where everyone took care of ‘we gave at the office.’ It was very nice, but first of all, I hadn’t been asked by anybody to sing. [smiles] So the song started off ‘From the heart of man to the heart of God the ladder’s been removed / And there ain’t no band-aid big enough to cover up this wound.’ That idea.

 

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“From the heart of man to the heart of God the ladder’s been removed / And there ain’t no band-aid big enough to cover up this wound” is an early version of the opening lines of Ain’t No Cure For Love. The excerpt is from Leonard Cohen’s Nervous Breakthrough by Mark Rowland. Musician: July 1988.

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Mar 14, 2015 and has been updated.

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