Whats the story behind the song Suzanne?
pc_pcheslaw@corp.octel.com: According to a Radio 4 documentary on Leonard Cohen in London last night [Saturday, November 26, 1994] Suzanne was written in Montreal about Suzanne (not sure of last name) who was the wife of a high-society friend. She was apparently a beautiful woman who he was very taken with. She and her husband made an invincible couple and he was limited to touching her body in his fantasy.The harbor is the water front of Montreal and the “lady of the harbour” is a statue on that waterfront. “Tea and oranges that come all the way from China” refers to the Constant Comment tea (small pieces of orange peel mixed into the tea) that she gave him at her place overlooking the harbour.
