New Leonard Cohen song 40 years in the making
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Today's Morning Edition music is from Popular Problems, a new album coming out next week from the legendary Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen.
This is his 13th studio album and Cohen says he's been working on some of the songs for a long time. He told Rolling Stone that the song "Born in Chains" has been 40 years in the making.
"I've rewritten the lyric many times to accommodate the changes in my theological position, which is very insecure," Cohen said.
He turns 80 years old on Sunday.
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