Everybody knows that the dice are loaded.

[Liberal In Texas]

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 it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Of course it's Leonard Cohen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUfS8LyeUyM

Not bad for a Canadian who's been predicting all along what this country may become.

It's like what Michael Moore said on KO's show the other night, and the events on Wall Street. There is an undercurrent of unrest. The unrest just may erupt through the surface.

Good luck everybody. I may be too old to hit the streets again as I did in the 60s, but I'm with you.

[dipsydoodle]

1. lol - I read the header but didn't open it.

I knew they were song lyrics and was sitting here trying to figure which song they came from. I then googled to find the song only to find what I've have found if I opened it in the first place. :rofl:

Great song and lyrics and highly appropriate too.

:hi:

5th rec for you.

[SpiralHawk]

2. First we'll take Manhattan

...then we'll take Berlin...

Leonard live on TV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnCR8kSSmqw&feature=related

[Scuba]

3. Another version, if you like...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3XmbnnwiA

[Fla_Democrat]

8. Concrete Blonde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaJAxdGeZ4E


is the one I prefer......



:smoke:

[Scuba]

9. Nice, thank. Hadn't heard that...

...but I always think of Michael Connelly novel.

http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Blonde-Harry-Bosch/dp/044661758X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316873276&sr=1-1

[DrunkenBoat]

4. Leonard knows because he was a trust fund kid.

[Drahthaardogs]

5. I like Don Henley's version

a little better.

[Aerows]

6. I like Concrete Blond's version

Johnette Napolitano has a gorgeous voice, like steel covered in velvet.

[KG]

7. democracy is coming to the USA.