Dizem que esta foi escrita a pensar na Nico, com quem flirtou ou passeou, mas não amou, ou amou e ela não deixou, ou ela não sabia amar. É o que diz a canção.
"Leonard Cohen first met Nico, singer with the Velvet Underground, in New York. He became besotted with her and this song expresses his unrequited love for the German songstress. Speaking in 1992 with the magazine Throat Culture, Cohen recalled: "Nico was very strange. I tried to talk to her and she always replied very mysteriously. No matter what you said she always replied in a curious fashion."
"It was only after many weeks, after being perplexed by her conversation and paralyzed by her beauty that she told me she was deaf. She responded to everyone with whatever came into her mind because she could hardly hear a thing. Which explains her particularly strange style. But I definitely wrote 'Take This Longing' thinking of her." de Songfacts
Não será a surdez uma bela metáfora para o amor não correspondido?
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