Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receiv…

Leonard Cohen
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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.56, Vintage
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Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.56, Vintage

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