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You Want It Darker is een nummer van de Canadese zanger en dichter Leonard Cohen. Het nummer verscheen op zijn gelijknamige album uit 2016. Op 21 september van dat jaar werd het nummer uitgebracht op single. Het was de laatste single die verscheen tijdens het leven van Cohen, die op 7 november 2016 overleed.

"You Want It Darker" is a song by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen, released on September 21, 2016, Cohen's 82nd birthday. It is the title track from Cohen's album You Want It Darker. The song earned the artist a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance and features the vocals of Cantor Gideon Zelermyer and Shaar Hashomayim Choir.

Alexis Petridis describes the song as "a menacing critique of religion" that "flips from anger to resigned acceptance and back again". Far Out and American Songwriter ranked the song number seven and number three, respectively, on their lists of the 10 greatest Leonard Cohen songs.

The song was recorded by Iggy Pop for the 2022 tribute album Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen.