From the 1984 album Various Positions, this classic by poet Leonard Cohen generated much debate and discussions as to the meaning and the background of the song. While different people find different meanings, Leonard Cohen himself describes his motive for writing this fantastic piece – ‘Dance Me to the End Of Love’ … it’s curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that’s why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt.“ sourced here In 1994, a live version of the song was released as a CD promotional single b/w “Suzanne”.