Everybody: Welcome to Everybody Knows

[womzilla]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
everybody knows the war is over
and everybody knows the good guys lost
everybody knows the fight was fixed
the poor stay poor and the rich get rich
that's how it goes
and everybody knows

--Leonard Cohen.

There are many people I'd less rather have cast into the role of "true prophet of the future", but still.

Comments

[thetalkingmoose.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get this song out of my head for days after the 2004 elections. I'm praying I won't experience a repeat of that experience in November, 2006.

Song Association

[(Anonymous)]

Atom Egoyan uses this song to very good effect in "Exotica."

In a similarly upbeat and cheerful mode, here's the final verse of "Death of a Ladies' Man":

"So the great affair is over
But whoever would have guessed
It would leave us all so vacant
And so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the Moon
Or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing
If you really want to go that far"

May they sing that when Bush and Cheney go and then break into "Democracy," which shouldn't have to come to the U.S.A, but needs to, for some reason.

Burrow on, Womzilla