WHAT WE ARE UP AGAINST. EVERYBODY KNOWS. A LEONARD COHEN AND SHARON ROBINSON SONG FOR OUR TIMES

 

 To watch and reflect upon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IfmiKnZi3E

THE WAY IT IS. WHERE WE STAND. THE EVIL ELITE RIGGED THINGS THEIR WAY. THE RICH-POOR GAPS WIDEN

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

Everybody knows the war is over

Everybody knows that 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

THINGS, THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. LIES, FALSE AND FAKE REIGN. DYSPHORIA

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

GREED AND SELF-INTEREST ARE PERVASIVE

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

 

IN WHAT WAYS ARE WE CHEATED? IN WHAT DO WE TRUST?

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
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

 

WHO SURVIVES, AND HOW? POLARIZATION AND SELF THE NAME OF THE GAME

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you

DRUGS. BIG PHARMA PROMISES

And everybody knows that you live forever
When you've done a line or two

RACISM. POWER

Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

APOCALYPSE NOW. COVID

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast

EVERY INTIMACY LOST. AND MEASURED

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

HOPE ALL GONE?

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