YouTube - Leonard Cohen - Everybody knows (live in London, 2008)‏ 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 YouTube - Leonard Cohen - Everybody knows (live in London, 2008) <!-- end of lyrics -->
The Republic has not truly existed since Lincoln. Lincoln gave the international bankers defacto control over our economy and that essentially ended government by the people and for the people and put us in servitude to the Rothchilds. The apparent only begins to define through the fog 146 years later. We are allowed the distraction of voting for our leaders and law-makers but they have elected themselves bread and circuses so that they never really get replaced in the interest of the country but solely in the interest of the corporations, lobbyists, and banks. Wars are decided to be fought only to reposition the pawns on the board for global manipulation of wealth. This wealth is not necessarily in currency but in commodities and other means of exchange. There is no real meaning or value to money other than a means of control. If we stay convinced that it is a viable means of exchange, then we stay indentured to those that hold the note. We are trained to open bank accounts and save and borrow and work 9-5 to make payment. Social programs are enacted, not to assist us, but to ensure that we do not stray from the status quo. It no longer matters if we return to the gold standard, as most of the gold has been bought by those that control the banks. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src=" /> Terrorism is only a means of scaring the public sheep into a herd stampede towards whatever legislation de jour is decided expedient to the rulers. The loss of our apparent Freedom is merely an illusion, as is our Freedom. You cannot loose what you do not have. We are allowed to operate under the illusion of Freedom only as long as it does nothing to interfere with the program. “Step out of line and they will come to take you away.” Politics are only a distraction from the real sleight of hand that robs us and enslaves us.
If I ever do start making another show, I want to obtain the rights to use this song as the theme. Perfect.
The Future More Cohen... I think he's singing from the perspective of the PTB YouTube - THE FUTURE - LEONARD COHEN - LIVE IN LONDON‏ 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 ...
