the only double negative i can cope with

I hate double negatives.

But, when it comes to Leonard Cohen's song 'There Ain't No Cure For Love', who is touring again for the first time in ages, I can just about cope with it, because of the way the words are used with such poetic beauty to reveal the reassuring truth that:

"... I don't need to be forgiven for loving you so much ..."

I think perhaps my hopes, my joys, my fears, my sorrows, my perspectives, (including how I feel about Quakerism), are all little double-negatives in themselves. I feel these, in turn, make up the one great big double-negative that id my life, which either waits to be unravelled, or has to be inevitably accepted and embraced to salvage ("redeem") something, to allow some positive meaning to shine through. I know I ain't making no sense, but there you go ...

'There Ain't No Cure For Love' by Leonard Cohen,
performing live at Glastonbury, 2008:



"... I see you in the subway
and I see you riding in the bus
I see you lying down with me
and I see you waking up

I see your hands
I see your hair
Your bracelets and your brush

And I call to you
I call to you

But I don't call soft enough ..."