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  • Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Official Video)
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    Lyrics:
    It's coming through a hole in the air
    From those nights in Tiananmen Square
    It's coming from the feel
    That it ain't exactly real
    Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there
    From the war against disorder
    From the sirens night and day
    From the fires of the homeless
    From the ashes of the gay
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
    It's coming through a crack in the wall
    On a visionary flood of alcohol
    From the staggering account
    Of the Sermon on the Mount
    Which I don't pretend to understand at all
    It's coming from the silence
    On the dock of the bay
    From the brave, the bold, the battered
    Heart of Chevrolet
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
    It's coming from the sorrow in the street
    The holy places where the races meet
    From the homicidal bitchin'
    That goes down in every kitchen
    To determine who will serve and who will eat
    From the wells of disappointment
    Where the women kneel to pray
    For the grace of God in the desert here
    And the desert far away
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
    Sail on, sail on
    O mighty ship of state!
    To the shores of need
    Past the reefs of greed
    Through the squalls of hate
    Sail on, sail on, sail on...
    It's coming to America first
    The cradle of the best and of the worst
    It's here they got the range
    And the machinery for change
    And it's here they got the spiritual thirst
    It's here the family's broken
    And it's here the lonely say
    That the heart has got to open
    In a fundamental way
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
    It's coming from the women and the men
    Oh baby, we'll be making love again
    We'll be going down so deep
    The river's going to weep
    And the mountain's going to shout Amen!
    It's coming like the tidal flood
    Beneath the lunar sway
    Imperial, mysterious
    In amorous array
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
    Sail on, sail on
    O mighty ship of state!
    To the shores of need
    Past the reefs of greed
    Through the squalls of hate
    Sail on, sail on, sail on...
    I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
    I love the country but I can't stand the scene
    And I'm neither left or right
    I'm just staying home tonight
    Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
    But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
    That time cannot decay
    I'm junk but I'm still holding up
    This little wild bouquet
    Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
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  • @hilkelieberth8620
    @hilkelieberth8620 Před 3 měsíci +26

    We urgently need this song everey hour in every radiostation all over the World !!!

    • @Rhiannon011
      @Rhiannon011 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Yes I agree..👍👍

    • @OGFrylock
      @OGFrylock Před 2 měsíci

      😂😂😂

    • @kmcq692
      @kmcq692 Před 2 měsíci +1

      And local chapters of A Conspiracy of Beards.
      It’s a prayer. It’s liturgy.

    • @Iris-qd9cs
      @Iris-qd9cs Před měsícem

      Coudn't agree more. Germany

  • @danutekudaba9714
    @danutekudaba9714 Před 7 lety +383

    Dylan got the Nobel prize. Leonard deserved it also.

    • @sonicfoxxmusic4281
      @sonicfoxxmusic4281 Před 7 lety +17

      Leonard Cohen didn't need awards or prizes...but Canada sure took hold of one when Leonard's old man stepped onto Canadian soil!!

    • @minguyen-rl7sn
      @minguyen-rl7sn Před 7 lety +16

      Leonard couldn't possibly care less about the Nobel anything prize.

    • @1967870
      @1967870 Před 7 lety +8

      leo better

    • @anawieder5003
      @anawieder5003 Před 6 lety +14

      You're so right, Cohen definitely deserves it more

    • @HenrikRClausen
      @HenrikRClausen Před 5 lety +7

      Cohen deserved it, just as Tolkien did. The Nobel Committee works in Mysterious Ways (H/T U2 :))

  • @johnk4437
    @johnk4437 Před 4 lety +50

    In 1980 I had the pleasure of meeting Leonard Cohen back stage at a Bread And Rose Festival, a fund raiser Mimi Farina organized to fund her pet project, bringing music behind the walls of US penitentiaries. I was 23 years old an aspiring sound and lighting engineer at that time. Leonard was bored and hanging back talking with no one..despite all the stars present... Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Taj Mahal, Robin Williams, among many many others. The event was held at the Greek Theater Berkeley CA. I found him standing there smoking, wearing a very very wrinkled dark grey silk suit just pulled from his travel case, his face severe amid gnarly 5 o'clock shadow and his dark hair long and slicked back.. a scene I shall never forget. Sharing a few words, we soon parted, and all I have now are those memories, of him, that day, and my now long gone youth. Wow !

    • @MSYNGWIE12
      @MSYNGWIE12 Před měsícem

      As a woman and one of his most devoted fans, sigh I ENVY you! Did he seem depressed or just bored and a bit shy?

    • @georgefordham417
      @georgefordham417 Před měsícem

      Good 😂story🎉

  • @AFord1981
    @AFord1981 Před 4 lety +176

    "I'm stubborn as those garbage bags/That time cannot decay/I'm junk but I'm still holding up/This little wild bouquet". Absolute genius.

  • @archiecharny
    @archiecharny Před rokem +74

    So appropriate to hear again at this moment in our history. ! Both a poet and a prophet. --forever remembered!

    • @jazura2
      @jazura2 Před rokem +4

      I think it is more poignant now

    • @archiecharny
      @archiecharny Před rokem +3

      @@jazura2 Yes; I wanted to remind others of his lesson to us. He had so many wise thoughts.

    • @ana-mariaoncescu5151
      @ana-mariaoncescu5151 Před rokem

      Indeed!!❤

    • @agolzad
      @agolzad Před 6 měsíci +1

      A true Canadian R.I.P Leonard ❤️

    • @marsneedstowels
      @marsneedstowels Před 6 měsíci

      Americans and Canadians, vote!

  • @user-yu6qe5dc4z
    @user-yu6qe5dc4z Před 4 měsíci +5

    He may have been an alien from another galaxy. Lol! He had insights that no human has matched. He is so needed today, and So missed.

  • @nickcipp7374
    @nickcipp7374 Před 7 lety +81

    How appropriate for now....& ever...Lou Reed was so right...."We're so lucky to be alive at the same time Leonard Cohen is," Lou Reed said while inducting the Canadian into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. RIP Leo

  • @wrigleyman100
    @wrigleyman100 Před 7 lety +341

    My wife and I saw you perform this at the outdoor Paolo Soleri Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 9, 1993. You added several more verses not in the standard version - one about slave ships sailing into Charleston Bay. The evening was wonderful, Perla and Julie angelic, and it was, oh, so perfect - one of the best evenings of my life. Now the Paolo Soleri is gone, my wife is gone and you are gone and I am old and feeling that I've seen maybe all there is to see. Except that I don't expect to see democracy coming here to "the cradle of the best and the worst" any time soon. Thank you, Leonard, and R.I.P.

    • @marisolaliaga
      @marisolaliaga Před 7 lety +20

      But you still hav the songs

    • @wrigleyman100
      @wrigleyman100 Před 7 lety +20

      John Lower - I'm aware of Mr. Newman's "Sail Away", and if one is going by publishing dates, then Sail Away predates Democracy, and Leonard was certainly a humble, self-effacing guy, ready and willing to pay homage to other song-crafters. Leonard often turned over lyrics in his head for decades before getting a song the way he wanted it. I am told he wrote more than sixty verses for "Democracy" before finalizing its form.

    • @AwesomeAlexAdam
      @AwesomeAlexAdam Před 7 lety +10

      Democracy came to the US Tuesday Nov 8 2016

    • @andrzejjakubowicz3577
      @andrzejjakubowicz3577 Před 7 lety +9

      There's a dude who decided some 10 years ago that Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe" was an antiwar song and he posts that idea wherever somebody mentions the song. I'm bringing this up because (a) I don't post my little ideas all over the place, and (b) because for a time, now and then when I'd think about Cohen's "Democracy," I'd think of Cohen as one more of those spiritual folks who, I feel, probably shouldn't talk about politics. In hindsight, the idea that Clinton's presidency was going to bring democracy to the USA seems just unspeakably childish. Cohen wasn't that naive, though. All the US bleeding hearts were cheering when the Berlin Wall fell. Now we know East Germany wasn't being liberated - it was being colonized. And it seems Cohen saw that coming. In one of the interviews here he talks about that - about, as he put it, the "excrement hitting the ventilator" for those people. I know his métier was music and poetry, not political science. But I'm relieved to know that somebody who was so heavily influenced by Lorca (and we know how Lorca died) wasn't some bright-eyed idealistic moron, that he actually *knew, that he was actually *wise. Rabbis and other spiritual sages, and even poets, should not be in some la-la land. And if they are, that's where they should stay. For all his brilliance, I feel Dylan, with his end-times vision of the world, should probably be quiet about anything other than that vision - or just write and sing *songs, which, after all, is what he insists he does and is.

    • @ficheye00
      @ficheye00 Před 7 lety +18

      AwesomeAlex - You might want to look at the definition. It doesn't mean 'Make people suffer and do what I want them to do because I'm an imbecile'.

  • @joebanish7517
    @joebanish7517 Před 4 lety +17

    Being from Michigan, the line “The Brave, the Bold, the Battered Heart of Chevrolet” really rings true.

  • @9UaYXxB
    @9UaYXxB Před 7 lety +79

    Rest in peace to this man who, in his way, was as fine a communicator of this life's impacts on the human heart, the human soul, as any.

  • @abbottsystems
    @abbottsystems Před 8 lety +47

    I've been listening to Cohen since the early 70's. He's a genius. One of a kind.

  • @chrisinuae1
    @chrisinuae1 Před 7 lety +141

    Rip to one of the most profound,charismatic singer songwriters ever! Thank you Mr Cohen for sharing your beautiful gifts with us all.

    • @Berckert
      @Berckert Před 5 lety

      yes

    • @alexrozenbom3430
      @alexrozenbom3430 Před rokem

      I only recently started listening to him. I am glad I found hom
      his lyrics make me think and reflect. Bob Dylan too, just different.

  • @googleuser2874
    @googleuser2874 Před 6 lety +36

    Leonard Cohen heals people's souls.

  • @Avatrac
    @Avatrac Před 8 lety +173

    Everything Leonard Cohen does connects and sends chills down my spine. He's my drug of choice.

    • @elyssialinkwade7161
      @elyssialinkwade7161 Před rokem +5

      That is such a beautiful thing to say and I can totally relate, his stuff is the realest ever, you're so correct.

    • @patagualianmostly7437
      @patagualianmostly7437 Před rokem +2

      @@elyssialinkwade7161 Mine too... what a wordsmith... the guy was simply the best.
      He can bring me to tears...then lift me to euphoria.... across all his albums.
      The man has NO equal...... past or present. ..... (Those that disagree are simply in denial for some reason or other....?)
      He is... and was, simply, unique....
      A Shakespeare of our time. Maybe.
      We were so fortunate to experience his life.

    • @ana-mariaoncescu5151
      @ana-mariaoncescu5151 Před rokem +1

      I agree!!!❤

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      @melaniezinderenhrertrdrrr Před 4 měsíci

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    • @melaniezinderenhrertrdrrr
      @melaniezinderenhrertrdrrr Před 4 měsíci

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  • @DeborahLArmstrong
    @DeborahLArmstrong Před 7 lety +42

    RIP Leonard Cohen. Thank you for your wisdom and insight. You will be missed.

  • @simonrodehn8678
    @simonrodehn8678 Před 5 lety +29

    Didn't listen to Leonard enough. Fortunately I can continue to. Thank You Leonard for your wonderful poetry.

  • @beeko5641
    @beeko5641 Před rokem +7

    Had the honour of meeting the man way back in '93 in Vancouver.I gave him my demo tape and he wished me well and I felt blessed.

  • @yosariant9476
    @yosariant9476 Před 3 lety +257

    Think I'm going to be listening to this song on repeat all day today.

    • @elizabethcotonieto9224
      @elizabethcotonieto9224 Před 3 lety +11

      Have you listened it by Lumineers? It’s great!

    • @soph1pink
      @soph1pink Před 3 lety +11

      Pretty sure Cohen would have been as relieved as a great many at the moment.

    • @rmckim
      @rmckim Před 3 lety +6

      Has Biden conceded yet? The longer he takes the more the democrat party will suffer the allegations

    • @pattyleppert2437
      @pattyleppert2437 Před 3 lety +10

      @@rmckim what? why should he concede?

    • @pattyleppert2437
      @pattyleppert2437 Před 3 lety +15

      it should be Drumpf who concedes

  • @Nunavuter1
    @Nunavuter1 Před 7 lety +53

    Leonard is outside time itself. You just have to wait, and what he writes will become important again.

    • @TheRealBarbDwyer
      @TheRealBarbDwyer Před 7 lety +9

      It's hard to wait on a world to catch up.

    • @Nunavuter1
      @Nunavuter1 Před 7 lety +7

      Leonard spins a chain in a circle at the start of the video. In olden times, this was something a midwife would do to determine the sex of an unborn child. The child he awaits is unknown.
      (He's just the sort of guy to put this imagery in his videos.)

    • @edmey
      @edmey Před rokem

      @@Nunavuter1 Thank you for your posts. You're right. Cohen's message/voise is really timeless.

  • @FIFENDRUM
    @FIFENDRUM Před 7 lety +34

    so appropriate on this sad day ,this man has led me through many dark days .his music and poetry will remain timeless..R.i.P.

  • @NateHaselton
    @NateHaselton Před 7 lety +307

    Make no mistake about it; Leonard Cohen's death has coincided with a time the world needs to listen to his music the most. RIP Mr. Cohen. Thank you for your works.

    • @sonicfoxxmusic4281
      @sonicfoxxmusic4281 Před 7 lety +3

      You may just appreciate this little beauty Nate...it's mellow...enjoy.
      BREATHE by JASMINE LAMPORT.

    • @TheMrExemplar
      @TheMrExemplar Před 6 lety

      nobody needs to listen to music

    • @moondancer3157
      @moondancer3157 Před 6 lety +6

      HitProof I do. Can't live without it.

    • @janetcoffin8070
      @janetcoffin8070 Před 4 lety +2

      What a sad life, that doesn’t need music.

    • @mygoddess1
      @mygoddess1 Před 4 lety

      @@janetcoffin8070 How true Janet :) Wicked sad! I breath music ;)

  • @PimpleJThomas
    @PimpleJThomas Před 3 lety +43

    "This was when the Berlin Wall came down and everyone was saying democracy is coming to the east. And I was like that gloomy fellow who always turns up at a party to ruin the orgy or something. And I said, "I don’t think it’s going to happen that way. I don’t think this is such a good idea. I think a lot of suffering will be the consequence of this wall coming down." But then I asked myself, "Where is democracy really coming?" And it was the U.S.A....So while everyone was rejoicing, I thought it wasn’t going to be like that, euphoric, the honeymoon. So it was these world events that occasioned the song. And also the love of America. Because I think the irony of America is transcendent in the song. It’s not an ironic song. It’s a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country. That this is really where the experiment is unfolding. This is really where the races confront one another, where the classes, where the genders, where even the sexual orientations confront one another. This is the real laboratory of democracy."

    • @supermash1
      @supermash1 Před 3 lety +3

      Don't tell me - you're American. A bit presumptuous. The races meet in many places outside America. And, as you know, your democracy isn't holding up very well... It's in America where the rich fuck the poor over more than any other "democracy". America is simply organized money now.

    • @PimpleJThomas
      @PimpleJThomas Před 3 lety +5

      @@supermash1 Alright, not telling you - I am not American, but European. And that’s LC quote, not mine.

    • @uncleclem7381
      @uncleclem7381 Před 2 lety +2

      @@PimpleJThomas Ah yes, America. The pinnacle of democracy, where orders are given for Latin American and Asian countries to be bombed and their democratically elected leaders overthrown in favor of fascists.

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda Před 2 lety +2

      It was just so appropriate The Future was released in 92 his melancholy bleak sound just worked so well with all the depressing grunge music gaining popularity probably why Trent Reznor put him on the NBK soundtrack too. I remember my parents had two volumes of his poetry from years earlier when they had seem him in Toronto I was like 13 getting into writing really dark stuff because it was actually really cool culturally to do that in the 90s.

    • @bsh819
      @bsh819 Před 2 lety

      ​@@supermash1​ "​The races meet in many places outside America."
      In the same numbers and varieties? Nah, not many places. You're right about the rest of it, but it's a global system of the rich fucking the poor, so what if America's cancer is slightly more advanced than yours, neither are operable.

  • @1996gagamay
    @1996gagamay Před 8 lety +184

    He's the most heart opening artist I've ever heard, besides being a GENIUS.

    • @Berckert
      @Berckert Před 5 lety +2

      yes

    • @mygoddess1
      @mygoddess1 Před 4 lety +1

      Yes! 4 sure Sheila :) We sure could use his wisdom now.......

    • @stevesullivan8705
      @stevesullivan8705 Před 4 lety +2

      @@mygoddess1 Thanks Donna! Know the song, hadn't seen the video. Big Leonard fan. After God made Leonard Cohen She might as well have retired.

    • @tarawillis3995
      @tarawillis3995 Před 4 lety +1

      well maybe not he's usually not talking about himself or being vulnerable

    • @tokenspirit1548
      @tokenspirit1548 Před 2 lety +1

      You've got that right! I just listened to this one, as a solo and it's March 25, 2022.....I replaced the words USA with the Ukraine.

  • @fernandoperezbarreto7699
    @fernandoperezbarreto7699 Před 9 lety +30

    This is truly one of the great works of art of all time

  • @edkriegepiano
    @edkriegepiano Před 7 lety +82

    his work here is done, but his songs will sail on.

    • @marjadeluro6367
      @marjadeluro6367 Před 7 lety +9

      edward kriege Good comment Edward Thats the way it is

  • @danielaschwarz1971
    @danielaschwarz1971 Před 7 lety +84

    Another sad day in this year 2016 and Leonard Cohen is a huge loss.RIP with your awesome voice

  • @jackielocklear320
    @jackielocklear320 Před rokem +39

    Absolutely can't stop listening. A musical genius! His music lives on forever

    • @drcringe7873
      @drcringe7873 Před rokem

      Fascinating that we get to see a Jew like Leonard Cohen embracing the role of a Jewish supremacist super-villain who hints in all his songs that he despises non-Jews and wishes to enslave and exterminate them, but puts it just subtly in all his songs and so he has a large following of non-Jewish fans who don't get this, but pay and praise his songs.
      Isn't that Jewish magic if anything?

  • @pamelajungbeck2715
    @pamelajungbeck2715 Před 6 lety +18

    I have a special place in my soul for Leonard Cohen's poetry and songs.

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Před rokem

      Awww 🥰 that’s so sweet of you🥰 he brings it he sweetest melody to my soul🦋🤗💕

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Před rokem

      Is this your favorite song?

  • @SCharlesDennicon
    @SCharlesDennicon Před 6 lety +13

    My god, LC's lyrics... here is truly the equivalent of the classical poets we had until the early 20s.

  • @LlewellynKriel
    @LlewellynKriel Před 5 měsíci +3

    On the seventh day God rested. And, relaxed, content and in a creative mood, He made Leonard Cohen. And He said; "There! That's it. Nice!" and smiled.

  • @lisemoen8866
    @lisemoen8866 Před 6 lety +31

    I fell deeply in love with Leonard the very first time I heard his incredible voice. For the first time in my life, I have been faithful and loyal to only one man. All because of his ' gift of a golden voice'. Wait for me, Leonard, I'll be there soon.

  • @rainfallenonmyshoes8471
    @rainfallenonmyshoes8471 Před 3 měsíci +3

    Just awesome ! Thank you Leonard... please RIP

  • @hughculliton3174
    @hughculliton3174 Před 4 lety +190

    This is so pertinent to June, 2020 as to be percient.

    • @bceyre8204
      @bceyre8204 Před 4 lety +20

      It times like these Leonard Cohen always gives me hope.

    • @AstuteAces
      @AstuteAces Před 4 lety +11

      I’m so glad to find others who were thinking of this, given recent activism. Yay!

    • @dcmccart25
      @dcmccart25 Před 4 lety +7

      Did you mean prescient, Hugh ?

    • @briandundas7173
      @briandundas7173 Před 4 lety +13

      Agreed. It speaks to the moment of truth facing humanity, for which this virus and this violent police state are but an opening act. The change must come from America. Which way will it go?

    • @hopeforbetter382
      @hopeforbetter382 Před 4 lety +7

      Leonard Cohen’s lyrics are timeless!

  • @pascal796
    @pascal796 Před 7 lety +35

    Sail on, sail on for eternity... You deserved the Nobel prize for literature.

  • @mariaruskova6054
    @mariaruskova6054 Před 7 lety +20

    R.I.P. , Leonard Cohen. You will be badly missed.

  • @themocaw
    @themocaw Před 7 lety +295

    Only Leonard Cohen had the charisma to sing by basically reciting a poem in a low voice over backing music. I'm gonna miss the guy.

    • @itsthizzbaby
      @itsthizzbaby Před 5 lety +8

      he is talking, not singing - just like all of his 'songs'. still good music, though ;).

    • @Oscar3
      @Oscar3 Před 5 lety +11

      Tom Waits and Lou Reed can do it too.

    • @insufficientdata9845
      @insufficientdata9845 Před 5 lety +7

      Jim Morrison did it as well.....

    • @Oscar3
      @Oscar3 Před 5 lety +7

      @@insufficientdata9845 I agree with you. In terms of artistic tools Morrison was more a musician than a poet. But he was certainly a poet.

    • @patriciofernandez2711
      @patriciofernandez2711 Před 5 lety +30

      He is very clearly singing. He's not talking or reciting, there is a very definite pitch and musical quality to what he's doing. Listen to him recite his poems for the difference.

  • @RaoulDukeSr
    @RaoulDukeSr Před 5 měsíci +5

    One of Canada's most exemplary patriarchs.....of which there are so very many !
    🌲🍁🍁💞🔮💞🍁🍁🌲

  • @ZuliaBecker
    @ZuliaBecker Před 6 lety +10

    Missing Leonard Cohen! Let's keep playing, singing and dancing with him!

  • @patriciadavidson6765
    @patriciadavidson6765 Před 4 lety +17

    He had his finger on the American pulse, and on the world and it’s evils. He will never leave is 💚💚

  • @andyrichardsvideovlogs8835
    @andyrichardsvideovlogs8835 Před 5 lety +13

    Cohen at his greatest... RIP Thank you for the pleasure your music has given me since I discovered it in 1971

  • @TheShabnama
    @TheShabnama Před 7 lety +11

    I am deeply saddened by this heartbreaking news. RIP Leonard Cohen, You will be in my heart forever...

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Před rokem

      He still lives in my world🙏❤️ don’t think am letting this one go🦋🤗💕

  • @LoiSPiskorz
    @LoiSPiskorz Před 3 lety +10

    Amazing lyrics. Bob and Leonard are great poets and musicians.

  • @Lilithblues
    @Lilithblues Před 7 lety +19

    I love you Leonard!!! You will be in my heart forever..

  • @BarbaraRBell
    @BarbaraRBell Před 7 lety +11

    May your memory be a blessing dear Leonard Cohen . . .

  • @uncanonised
    @uncanonised Před 4 lety +13

    this song is so important today

  • @RenatusChristoph
    @RenatusChristoph Před 7 lety +71

    "Democracy is coming to the USA..." Haha, Cohen was always spot on in his sarcasm... And spot on in his diagnose of the States. Democracy isn't really no where there.

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda Před 4 lety +3

      He viewed them through a Canadian lense.

    • @angelabroughton5980
      @angelabroughton5980 Před 3 lety +1

      When it is whispering in your ear, it advances a foot at a time. When you ask "Why?" It makes an advance.
      Every time you recognize a real injustice it takes a giant leap.
      When you get that nagging feeling in your gut it has won.
      He was right. Follow your heart, and vote very carefully. The pen is mightier than the sword.

    • @solangedesantis5515
      @solangedesantis5515 Před 3 lety +1

      He's not sarcastic.

    • @siwardwoudstra1751
      @siwardwoudstra1751 Před 3 lety +1

      @@solangedesantis5515 Assuming he wasn't sarcastic makes it even more sarcastic. If it isn't ironic it is even more scornful. The only question is if the grin is outwardly visible or hidden inside; that the grin can only be seen in the soul.

    • @GMC-qo9xi
      @GMC-qo9xi Před 3 lety

      I think his point is that it doesn’t yet exist in the USA, but it’s coming... after the greed has played out it’s hand and the need (for justice) takes over.... as the walls had already started to crack, and chip, and soon will crumble. Babylon eventually falls, as does the greed she’s drunk off. And at some point shortly after that we will have peace-‘united states’.

  • @elliegreen4738
    @elliegreen4738 Před 6 lety +6

    Most singers have only a few good songs, sometimes only one but with Leonard it's different every single one is outstandingly beautiful with intriguing hidden meaning, fascinating darkness.
    I love his work.

  • @trarich7205
    @trarich7205 Před 8 lety +54

    I'm sorry this song isn't more important. I play this for practically everyone I know. Apparently everyone I know sucks. This song says it all and has been saying it all for awhile now.

    • @joserocha420
      @joserocha420 Před 4 lety +3

      Cohen has beeen ignored by pop-high volume discografics america side... the rest of the world find him as an historical, intervention and cutural reference. He was my spiritual father, i mourned him like he was family. Every single time that i listen one of the hundreds/thousands of his musics, i reborn and reinvent myself.

    • @kennewton6626
      @kennewton6626 Před rokem

      Everyone you doesn’t suck; they’re just conditioned by fear

  • @omidgh2011
    @omidgh2011 Před 8 lety +10

    lol I love the part where he is looking dead straight to the camera and says " it's coming to America first " EPIIIIIIC.

  • @teddytayl
    @teddytayl Před 7 lety +5

    A poet for this generation, for every generation. Gone from us now, but never forgotten. Incredible.

  • @andreluiscontri3796
    @andreluiscontri3796 Před 7 lety +18

    So long, Leonard! Thanks for everything!

  • @user-lt8gb4il1v
    @user-lt8gb4il1v Před 5 měsíci +2

    The way he used words to paint a picture is absolutely mind boggling

  • @jbghosthunter8225
    @jbghosthunter8225 Před 7 lety +8

    RIP sir, thank you for every memory, song and poem. you are missed.

  • @Romulonarducci1
    @Romulonarducci1 Před 7 lety +5

    I'll ever love the poet, the singer, the writer, the complete artist called Leonar Cohen. R.I.P. Master!

  • @CCDservices
    @CCDservices Před 9 lety +26

    Leonard Cohen probably more than anyone before deserve the Noble Price for Peace and people unity!?

    • @robinwilson1433
      @robinwilson1433 Před 4 lety

      or even "Nobel"

    • @sayan_tan
      @sayan_tan Před 3 lety

      I don't know abour peace. But I'm sure he deserves it in literature.

  • @Mercurius2345
    @Mercurius2345 Před 7 lety +59

    Farewell my companion of 50 years, through triumph and disaster;
    "my love goes with you as your love stays with me"
    'Democracy' one of Leonard's more ironic songs - so apposite this week of all week's

  • @miriamkramer9006
    @miriamkramer9006 Před 3 lety +6

    Such an incredible talent. I can't believe that I'm just discovering him. He has such wisdom and foresight. I will continue to listen to this incredible poet.

  • @ronkirk5099
    @ronkirk5099 Před rokem +15

    I hadn't heard this Leonard Cohen masterpiece before until I read 'Daring Democracy' and it was referenced. The anti-democratic forces funded by the billionaire class are gaining strength and I fear for our Democracy. If we can't rally a groundswell of opposition against it, it is all over for us. Hearing this song almost brought me to tears. Such a powerful message.

    • @margaretchapman1306
      @margaretchapman1306 Před 6 měsíci

      Many would share your fears .stay aware , stand strong as leonard would have us do
      I love the country but i hate the scene

  • @jeff6413
    @jeff6413 Před 7 lety +23

    "It's coming from the feel that it ain't exactly real. Or it's real but it ain't exactly there."
    Erie as hell given what is happening in America and the timing of Leonard Cohen's death. 😟😟😟
    RIP Leonard Cohen

  • @James-bd3ei
    @James-bd3ei Před 9 měsíci +2

    I first heard Cohen when I was 18.... Of course I was to young, to strong and to wise to understand any of his words. Now 62. I realize my life could have been less complicated had I been more patient at age 18 . Some lessons only come with age, that being said. Leonard told me so.

  • @amandaknopp3815
    @amandaknopp3815 Před 7 lety +10

    RIP, prescient until the end, you always inspired me

  • @cornstorm666
    @cornstorm666 Před 4 lety +9

    Sorry Leonard,Democracy has left the building...please come back Leonard, we need you more than ever..

  • @fettwalp8001
    @fettwalp8001 Před 3 lety +53

    Today's the fourth anniversary of Cohen's death and the day the 2020 presidential election was called, so I needed to hear this song as soon as I woke up.

    • @pattyleppert2437
      @pattyleppert2437 Před 3 lety +3

      me too!

    • @clairelowry9122
      @clairelowry9122 Před 3 lety +2

      Me too! Think we'll ever get there? Stay safe, anytime and anywhere.

    • @bkrharold
      @bkrharold Před 3 lety +1

      I was just watching a documentary about Pete Souza, President Obamas official photographer, and they played Democracy, while the titles rolled at the end. The version they played, was not performed by Leonard Cohen. I came here to find out more, and to find the the lyrics. I am not ashamed to admit, the way Leonard Cohen performed it had me in tears. They should have used his version, its much better. It seems like different people focus on a different part which resonates most, though it was all brilliant, here is one verse that really spoke to me of this moment.
      Sail on, sail on O mighty Ship of State To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on It's coming to America first The cradle of the best and of the worst It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way Democracy is coming to the USA

    • @clairelowry9122
      @clairelowry9122 Před 3 lety

      @@bkrharold -- from Claire Lowry..."still holding up this little wild bouquet". A bright spot in this perplexing holiday season. Take care...

  • @mexicoldermike3156
    @mexicoldermike3156 Před 7 lety +16

    Democracy is in the the eye of the beholder....R.I.P.

  • @FirstUsedBooks
    @FirstUsedBooks Před 7 lety +6

    God damn you Leonard, you leave me crying. How could you be so aware?

  • @gryphonshire
    @gryphonshire Před 7 lety +6

    A Poet AND a Prophet, Mr. Cohen's Spirit will live on through his words & music.
    RIP, Leonard. I'll be along soon....

  • @Theghostdiaries
    @Theghostdiaries Před 5 lety +10

    His early music is beautiful beyond belief obviously. But his later tunes really get me. I listen to this song, Everybody Knows, The Miracle, and First We Take Manhattan pretty much every day.

    • @wintherr3527
      @wintherr3527 Před rokem +1

      it's basically a flawless repertoire

    • @laripu
      @laripu Před 7 měsíci +1

      The album "You Want It Darker" is unbelievably good. It came out just before he died.

  • @kata.gy55
    @kata.gy55 Před 2 lety +2

    Ever since I was a child I felt connected to Leonard Cohen's music. He always made me calm. In my early teens I strayed away from him but like a year or two ago I found my way back. My dad was a big fan of him and as of now when I'm turning 18 in a couple months I'm starting to understand his music and I'm becoming a big fan of him. Mr Cohen was there with me ever since I was a baby, on every road trip and every single late night. It's heartbreaking that I never got the chance to meet him. But this is art and this cannot be compared to the trending music nowadays 🖤 Rest in peace Mr. Cohen and thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart

  • @fonziecrain7969
    @fonziecrain7969 Před 2 lety +10

    Leonard Cohen is the type of voice that I could listen to all day, over and over. The first time I heard this song, I sang it to myself for a day. Wrote down the words and kept them with me when I was on mission in Iraq. I forgot there was a war going on around me.

  • @azraooz
    @azraooz Před 7 lety +19

    ADIEU L ARTISTE (Tu laisse beaucoup de choses dans nos coeur )

  • @janesmith-eivemark1191
    @janesmith-eivemark1191 Před měsícem

    I listened to this song when it was new - that was 30, approximately, years ago! It means more now than it did then. What a poet/philosopher! Thank you Leonard and all who bring this music to us!

  • @andymassingham
    @andymassingham Před 7 lety +4

    Played it endlessly. The soundtrack of the 90's for me. Has not aged one second.

  • @ianbates6618
    @ianbates6618 Před 7 lety +10

    Leonard Cohen got me through some hard times, very sad

  • @NJRockfan
    @NJRockfan Před 7 lety +16

    His poetry was music,
    His music....poetry
    Thank you for letting him visit this Earth
    "Democracy" & "Hallelujah" came to mind Tuesday night and now I read the news today... oh boy

  • @dullarddom
    @dullarddom Před 4 lety +6

    Listening to this on the eve of what I fear may be the last truly democratic election in my country for a long time. I've always drawn on Leonard Cohen's music to give me hope and courage. I will need that push more than ever tomorrow as I go out from 7am making sure as many people who want to vote actually do so as I possibly can.

  • @nathanielhellerstein5871
    @nathanielhellerstein5871 Před 3 lety +41

    This song is thrilling and terrifying. Hang on, hang on.

  • @laurabeverage9396
    @laurabeverage9396 Před 4 lety +18

    "Democracy is coming, to the USA!!!!!" This is just what I needed to hear to buoy my spirits today. :-)

    • @catherinetihanyi6351
      @catherinetihanyi6351 Před 4 lety +1

      They can only give the Nobel prize to a live author. Leonard Cohen had already passed away when they decided to give it to a song writer.

    • @mrs.hancock4124
      @mrs.hancock4124 Před 2 lety

      He means communism

    • @wnd3099
      @wnd3099 Před rokem

      @@mrs.hancock4124 who ? Excuse me Mrs ...

    • @whenfatkillsfat803
      @whenfatkillsfat803 Před rokem

      @@mrs.hancock4124 Back to the kitchen, Karen.

  • @WoundedBear2k
    @WoundedBear2k Před 7 lety +6

    I guess closing time has come. Thanks for the music Leonard.

  • @Rozmund
    @Rozmund Před 5 lety +2

    Listing to Cohen never ceases to bring me JOY...are you doing your thing on the other side Leonard...

  • @christinenewburry4915
    @christinenewburry4915 Před 3 lety +1

    Brilliant❣You are greatly missed Leonard, thank you for all your writings 💜

  • @cathymurphy2781
    @cathymurphy2781 Před 3 lety +4

    Thinking of our Democracy today, Leonard. Hope we keep it.

  • @kbobdonahue1966
    @kbobdonahue1966 Před 7 lety +11

    A great voice is silenced. RIP my friend.

  • @MadMan731
    @MadMan731 Před 3 lety +2

    NPR played this one day and upon hearing that voice I knew it was Leonard Cohen. He was one of a kind.

  • @silvanagili9641
    @silvanagili9641 Před 4 lety +2

    Una canzone stupenda!!!fondamentale per i nostri tempi!!!grazie Leonard!!

  • @epanecka
    @epanecka Před 6 lety +3

    "It's coming from the feel that it ain't exactly real, or it's real but it ain't exactly there." Those lines make this even more fitting for the Mr. Robot season 3 teaser.

  • @RaineCarosin
    @RaineCarosin Před 8 lety +10

    Thanks, Leonard! I mean, Mr Cohen! Awesome!

  • @kissmyarse
    @kissmyarse Před 7 lety

    Leonard. Your lyrics, message and music live on! - RIP

  • @XxDevilsLettucexX
    @XxDevilsLettucexX Před 7 lety +1

    Wanted to come by and listen while i show some respect for an amazing poet. I will forever be changed, thank you for sharing!

  • @jfinleyjames6675
    @jfinleyjames6675 Před 7 lety +14

    Some things in life make it worth living,carrying on and dealing with everything as it comes your way.
    Leonard Cohen has always made my life worth living.
    I love you brother ....Rest in Peace.

  • @monaghanmarty
    @monaghanmarty Před 7 lety +8

    Another legend goes and the devils touting tickets for the afterlife this year.. An acquired taste I'm glad to have acquired..
    Rock in peace Mr Cohen

  • @TaaduNjawa
    @TaaduNjawa Před 7 lety +2

    Thank you for everything Leonard Cohen. Genuine and irreplaceable. RIP

  • @awfelia
    @awfelia Před 7 lety +2

    Leonard Cohen..a man of great vision! ☆♡☆

  • @theviper1999uk
    @theviper1999uk Před 4 lety +19

    America's greatest Canadian

  • @kirnikoglu
    @kirnikoglu Před 7 lety +183

    It's coming through a hole in the air
    From those nights in Tiananmen Square
    It's coming from the feel
    That this ain't exactly real
    Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there
    From the wars against disorder
    From the sirens night and day
    From the fires of the homeless
    From the ashes of the gay
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    It's coming through a crack in the wall
    On a visionary flood of alcohol
    From the staggering account
    Of the Sermon on the Mount
    Which I don't pretend to understand at all
    It's coming from the silence
    On the dock of the bay,
    From the brave, the bold, the battered
    Heart of Chevrolet
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    It's coming from the sorrow in the street
    The holy places where the races meet
    From the homicidal bitchin'
    That goes down in every kitchen
    To determine who will serve and who will eat
    From the wells of disappointment
    Where the women kneel to pray
    For the grace of God in the desert here
    And the desert far away:
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    Sail on, sail on
    O mighty Ship of State
    To the Shores of Need
    Past the Reefs of Greed
    Through the Squalls of Hate
    Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
    It's coming to America first
    The cradle of the best and of the worst
    It's here they got the range
    And the machinery for change
    And it's here they got the spiritual thirst
    It's here the family's broken
    And it's here the lonely say
    That the heart has got to open
    In a fundamental way
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    It's coming from the women and the men
    O baby, we'll be making love again
    We'll be going down so deep
    The river's going to weep,
    And the mountain's going to shout Amen
    It's coming like the tidal flood
    Beneath the lunar sway
    Imperial, mysterious
    In amorous array
    Democracy is coming to the USA
    Sail on, sail on
    I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
    I love the country but I can't stand the scene
    And I'm neither left or right
    I'm just staying home tonight
    Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
    But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
    That Time cannot decay
    I'm junk but I'm still holding up
    This little wild bouquet
    Democracy is coming to the USA

  • @trueroscoe
    @trueroscoe Před 4 měsíci +2

    Thank you, Leonard.

  • @johnwhitney1439
    @johnwhitney1439 Před 8 měsíci +2

    This is my favorite Leonard Cohen song🎉

  • @patriciadeiters-rahusen9646

    RIP. I grew up with you. Sad, thank you.

    • @scottrichard5792
      @scottrichard5792 Před rokem

      That’s so sweet! Bet your youth was blessed🙏❤️🕊

  • @paulbrommer6046
    @paulbrommer6046 Před 7 lety +3

    This song feels bitterly, deeply appropriate right now.

  • @angliase
    @angliase Před 7 lety

    Brilliant irony then & now!!
    The height of your brilliance!!.
    Thankyou Leonard - you made us think & feel deeper.

  • @TheKathythomas
    @TheKathythomas Před 12 lety +1

    Oh God..we can only hope! Thanx Mr. Cohen for your songs! I'm a new fan but love, love, love you! :)