Introduction - Live at Isle of Wight Festival, UK

Are you guys ready?
 Everybody ready?
 Next artist is a novelist, poet, an author and an album recorder, he's been trying to get here since 10: 30 yesterday morning...
 Would you welcome Leonard Cohen ...
 Greetings, greetings!
 When I was seven years old my father used to take me to the circus.
 He had a black mustache and a great vast and pansy in his lapel.
 He liked the circus better than I did.
 But there was one thing, it happened I always used to wait for.
 I don't wanna impose on you, this is not sing along with mitch.
 But there was one moment, a man would stand up and say would everybody light a match, so he can locate one and other.
 Could I ask you each person to light a match, so I can see where you all are?
 Could each of you light a match, so you sparkle like fireflies each at different heights, I would love to see those matches flare.
 Oh yea...
 Now, I know, I know that you know why you lighting them.
 Yea...
 Thank you.
 A lot of people without matches.
 Oh it's good to be here alone in six hundred tousand people.
 It is a large nation but it is still weak.
 Still very weak.
 Needs to be a lot stronger before I claim a right to land.