"No, this is a song that I really wrote recently. You’ve heard
two-thirds of it. And it really is not merciful to a song to interrupt
it with a discourse on its creation, but this is one of those songs that
I really mean. And it’s against the greatest tyranny that I myself
experience. I feel many kinds of tyrannies from every… Almost every
time men group themselves together, I flash [?] on their tyranny. But
this is not a government, this is a tyranny I feel myself which is the
possession of women, and woman’s possession of man. And I know those
chains have to be broken before anything happens. All the manifestos
and all the demonstrations will change nothing until we stop enslaving
each other, especially within the sexual embrace."
— L. Cohen on “Famous Blue Raincoat”