May 14, 2025

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Everybody Knows
Leonard Cohen
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Prompt: What’s a lyric that resonates deeply with you and why?

A 40-year-old song for our moment. History repeats, I suppose. This song blew my middle-school brain when I heard it in Pump Up the Volume. Great movie, great song. Piss-poor world.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

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