Don't give up, my broken hearted sisters. I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet.

[Zoonart]

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Democracy
Leonard Cohen

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

[saidsimplesimon]

1. Thank you Leonard Cohen.

Zoonart, I appreciate your sharing the excellent and moving, poetic piece on Democracy.

Reading some of the text, I had a mental synapse moment. It connected to the vision and song memory portions of my grey matter and out popped, "Red Sails in the Sunset". A better tomorrow awaits, today is the best day of my life.

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[Zoonart]

2. or this...

[saidsimplesimon]

3. Big laugh here,

Gallows humour is better than no humour. "Gone With the Wind", Ms. Scarlet

[Zoonart]

4. LOL.

My thinking exactly.

[TomSlick]

5. Working link to the song.

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[Zoonart]

6. Thanks.

Replaced the link.

[TomSlick]

7. Great song.

I hadn't heard it before.

[malaise]

8. I'm pissed

Thanks for these

[Zoonart]

9. Me too, Mal.

I saw your earlier post about being wrong in your prediction that Kav would not be approved. You were not wrong. You were making a judgemnet based on facts in a fact based universe. I think we have sliipped the surly bonds of facts.

I fear that things will get very bad very fast. We are going to have to toughtn up. It will not be an easy fight.