h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I like the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's songs and in my own way I feel they speak to a part of me. For instance I believe that the sisters of mercy are not departed or gone. They were waiting for me (in the form of poetry or his singing) when I thought that I just can't go on. They brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song (or rather I felt it was sung for me). I hope you run into them (they are easy to find on the web), especially if you've been travelling to long. I further believe that you who must leave everything that you cannot control. Don't you think that it begins with your family, but soon it comes around to your soul? I feel I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned. When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned. Well they lay down beside me (metaphorically), I made my confession to them, or in effect myself. If they had touched both my eyes and I had touched the dew on their hem, I would feel that your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn but that they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem. Every time I hear the song I feel like when I left they were sleeping and that I hope you (that is to say others) run into them soon. I like to listen to Leonard Cohen in the dark so I would say- don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And of course since they exist in everyone's individual consciousness you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night (or day) because we weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right since we weren't lovers the way you might conceive (and besides it would still be all right).