Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Boy, Did I Need Me Some Brother Cohen Tonight



"Everybody Knows"

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

7 comments:

Katie said...

Love this song, and like many Cohen songs, I heard a cover first. This one by Elizabeth and the Catapult is my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHY7xVTNhU

Debra She Who Seeks said...

I adore Leonard Cohen.

M. D. Jackson said...

I didn't know that.

Oh, wait... yes I did.

D.I. Felipe González said...

It's seems you're feeling the blues Cal.

csmith2884 said...

Hey remember how we told you about Dr. Who and you waited and waited...well if your this blue it's time to catch up on Game Of Thrones..I just know your my kind of sick and carnage on a grand scale can't help but cheer you up. To quote a good friend describing my taste in films. "You like a happy story where everybody dies."

Kal said...

cs, that was the single best analysis of the core of my character that I have heard in 20 years. I was thinking just yesterday how much I desperately need the new season of 'Spartacus' to begin. Over the top betrayal, gory slaughter, hot sex and death -I will go back to being the happiest bunny in the field after a season's worth of that.

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