KW-09-2023: #Lover-Lover_Lover – Kein Liebeslied, oder doch? Ein Anti-Kriegslied, oder nicht? Oder einfach nur eine Konversation mit Gott ? – Über die Bedeutung des Liedes auf dem NEW SKIN FOR THE OLD CEREMONY-Albums – “ Cohen would later say he wrote “Lover Come Back to Me” for soldiers on both sides of the battle lines – Israeli and Egyptian. But at a performance in Tel Aviv in 1980, he said it was inspired “by the grace and the bravery of many Israeli soldiers at the front” and described his experiences with the troops during the Yom Kippur War as “invigorating and depressing.”