Thought for the Day

[bcholmes]

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
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", Leonard Cohen

Comments

[surelars.livejournal.com]

That's a great song.

To see that single verse stand alone make me thing of

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.

which is not the context I usually have for that song.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i always hear johnette napolitano when i read that.

i also think that that song, that verse, is utterly true. then i do my best to forget about it. being depressed gives a person a much more realistic outlook on life, but is depressing as all hell. uh, you know what i mean.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

:-(

she-who-was curlygrrrl