"Avalanche" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen.
It appears on his third studio album, Songs of Love and Hate (1971).
The lyrics are based on a poem he had previously written.
He acknowledged in a 1992 interview with Paul Zollo that his "chop", his unique pattern of playing classical guitar, is behind many of his early songs, and this one features Cohen's trademark fast, syncopated classical guitar pattern as the accompaniment on the recording of the song.
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