Everybody Knows

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Everybody Knows: Leonard Cohen

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.

From ourselves, Dear Lord

 

H/T bleu66 for last Sunday’s Leonard Cohen video

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