“I'm Your Man” by Leonard Cohen

"I'm Your Man" is the title song of Leonard Cohen's 1988 album, out that February, and it did not come easily. In Songwriters on Songwriting, Paul Zollo's book, Cohen admitted he sweated over it and still had the notebook to prove it: it started out as a different song, "I Cried Enough for You", tied to a version of "Waiting for a Miracle" he had recorded, and that approach went nowhere.

He produced it with Michel Robidoux, arranged it and plays keyboards, with Tom Brechtlein and Robidoux on drums and Anjani Thomas singing behind him. Rolling Stone heard a cheesy drum-machine beat, hushed horn riffs and a trace of country ballad, with Cohen offering himself up to a woman he had wronged without ever asking forgiveness. As the album's second single it charted nowhere until his death in November 2016, when it reached 57 in France.

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