10 Greatest Leonard Cohen Lyrics (Part 4)

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6) "I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me"- Anthem

And lo there came a settlement to the island of Manhattan in the early 1600's and they built themselves a wall. And a street was run along it that's housed killers now for centuries; and the prayers they've said with no shame they've been saying right out loud. And the wall that had been built to protect from hostile forces has now fallen and they're left alone with danger on all sides. From the darkness that surrounds them, eyes are watching and a records playing; they can't make out what the song is but catch the singer say "you're not safe here anymore". "There is danger all around you now", and Leonard knew that it would happen and transfered all his stocks to bonds.



7) "I fought against the bottle,
But I had to do it drunk –
Took my diamond to the pawnshop –
But that don’t make it junk"- That Don't Make It Junk.


Oscar Wilde wrote that "each man kills the thing he loves...the coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword". But Leonard reminds us that most people are neither cowardly or brave, and usually kill the things they love just in the normal course of their life to get by. The sad midway between two points; an old weathered singer, and crumpled dollars for the diamond he'd once held in the palm of his hand.




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