maybe i won't be playing leonard cohen's 'everybody knows' tonight

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

after all

exit polls looking good, keeping fingers crossed and not getting expectations to high just yet

"Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows that the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight is fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows that the boat is sinking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody’s got this broken feeling
Like their momma or there dog just died
Everybody’s hands are in their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows"

[lukasahero]

1. I love Cohen! eom

[lilsourgoose]

2. play it anyway

Leonard Cohen is a King among men

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. nah, hopefully, it will be u2's beautiful day instead

might suit the mood better -IF- this trend is true

[slappypan]

3. "democracy is coming to the USA"

You can play a different Lenny tune tonight.

[nodehopper]

5. how about this:

"I can't run no more with this lawless crowd
While the killers in high places say their prayers out loud"
-L.C. "Anthem"

[Jade Fox]

6. Reminds me of Mose Allison's "Everybody's Cryin' Mercy"

I can't believe the things I'm seein'
I wonder 'bout some things I heard
Everybody cryin' mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word.

A bad enough situation
Is sure enough gettin' worse
Everybody cryin' justice
Just as long as there's business first.

Toe to toe
Touch and go
Give a cheer
Get your souvenir

People runnin' round in circles
Don't know what their headed for
Everybody cryin' 'Peace on Earth'
Just as soon as we win this war.

Straight ahead
Knock em' dead
Pack your kit
Choose your hypocrite

You don't have to go to off-Broadway
To see something plain absurd
Everybody cryin' mercy
When they don't know the meaning of the word.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Maybe Cohen's Hallelujah

would be more appropriate?

Especially the version by Bono.

[TrustingDog]

8. Cohen's 'The Future':

I play it in my car and think of the bush criminal gang every time - cussing and shaking my fists.

The Future

Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
it's lonely here,
there's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby,
that's an order!
Give me crack and anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
and stuff it up the hole
in your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
give me Stalin and St Paul
I've seen the future, brother:
it is murder.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew
who wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
to say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

There'll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There'll be phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You'll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don't like children anyhow
I've seen the future, baby:
it is murder

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

[prayin4rain]

9. Aaawww great song.

[carnie_sf]

10. Chuck Berry

I'm so glad I'm Living in the USA for me.