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<p><strong style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Over a musical career that spanned nearly five decades, Mr. Cohen wrote songs that addressed—in spare language that could be both oblique and telling—themes of love and faith, despair and exaltation, solitude and connection, war and politics.</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">It's inevitable that Mr. Cohen will be remembered above all for his lyrics. They are terse and acrobatic, scriptural and bawdy, vividly descriptive and enduringly ambiguous, never far from either a riddle or a punch line.</strong></p><p><strong style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">NY Times Editorial.</strong></p>