I’ve long been a fan of the well-known Leonard Cohen song, Everybody Knows. Listening to this song today I couldn’t help but think about the current political mess this country is in. So I came up with alternate meanings for the lyrics when applied in a political context.
| Original Lyrics (First 3 stanzas) | Today’s Meaning (in a Political Sense) | |
|---|---|---|
| Everybody knows that the dice are loaded | …Bush is betting the farm (America) | |
| Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed | …hoping that WMD’s are found in Iraq | |
| Everybody knows that the war is over | …too bad we left a huge mess behind | |
| Everybody knows the good guys lost | …the 2004 election should right some things | |
| Everybody knows the fight was fixed | …the Florida nonsense in 2000 | |
| The poor stay poor, the rich get rich | …the irresponsible 2003 tax cuts | |
| That’s how it goes | …when you own the mass media | |
| Everybody knows | …thanks to the international and free press | |
| Everybody knows that the boat is leaking | …and those in power will drown | |
| Everybody knows that the captain lied | …the Bush administration continues to lie | |
| Everybody got this broken feeling | …unemployment is rising, the market is falling | |
| Like their father or their dog just died | …it’s hard to be upbeat with Bush in office | |
| Everybody talking to their pockets | …because dissenters are being silenced | |
| Everybody wants a box of chocolates | …the only sweet spot in this whole mess | |
| And a long stem rose | …or a lift on the stem-cell ban | |
| Everybody knows | …thanks to blogs and freedom of speech | |
Posted by Cameron Barrett at June 4, 2003 07:16 PM