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Leonard Cohen releases lyric video for "Show Me the Place" and...is that a spelling mistake?

by Tyler Munro

Lyric videos are becoming increasingly popular–as evidence by the fact that this is the second one we’ve mentioned this morning and the third in two days–and that’s well and good, but when crafting a clip to highlight a song’s lyrics, it’s probably worth a proof-read or two. Especially when it’s a video for the new Leonard Cohen song, “Show Me the Place.”

Not that we don’t all make mistakes, but Cohen’s words are kind of a big deal. They’re the attraction. So the fact that nobody seemed to catch on that “forgotten” was misspelled pretty early on (25 seconds) in the video strikes us as a little odd. Or careless. Or maybe intentional.

Either way, Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas is out January 31st, 2012.