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Famous Blue Raincoat

Leonard Cohen
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"Famous Blue Raincoat" is a composition by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen that appears as the sixth track on his third studio album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971. The song is structured as a letter and explores a romantic entanglement involving three individuals.

The lyrics depict a love triangle between the narrator, a woman named Jane, and a male recipient referred to as "my brother, my killer."

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