In the 1999 book, The Complete Guide to the Music of Leonard Cohen, the authors comment that Cohen's question, "Did you ever go clear?", in the song, is a reference to the Scientology state of " Clear". In 1994 Cohen said that "it was a song I've never been satisfied with". Cohen lived on Clinton Street in Manhattan in the 1970s when it was a lively Latino area.
The lyrics contain references to the German love song " Lili Marlene," to Scientology, and to Clinton Street.
The lyric tells the story of a love triangle among the speaker, a woman named Jane, and the male addressee, who is identified only briefly as "my brother, my killer." Background The song is written in the form of a letter (many of the lines are written in amphibrachs). It is the sixth track on his third album, Songs of Love and Hate, released in 1971. " Famous Blue Raincoat" is a song by Leonard Cohen. 1971 song by Leonard Cohen "Famous Blue Raincoat"
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