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  • Leonard Cohen at his BEST!!!!!!!!!!!! Great song

  • bush did know how many states we have.

  • See...

    iamthewitness. c o m

  • Gotta love songs that never get old, just acquite new meanings with time. That's real art.

    Not a word had to be added to song, so it seems quite clear to me that anyone that thinks the song here is "perverted" has to accept the song has always been this "perverted".

    The song speaks for itself, the smart background collage only reminds us of how enduring Cohen's work is.

    If you are convinced Leo is a genius and yet this video makes you angry, I can suggest you rethink your principles.

  • GOOD SONG

    

  • it use to be a valid song and the whole notion of weather everybody knows that they know. with anyone else. I suppose there are some people out there that never heard this and let me say that there was a time where it didn't feel like everyone knew, now this may come across with less impact (this song) now its gotten to be a general betrayal thats excepted. than again though I suppose there is someone that is just understanding for the first that everyone knows but somehow we as a whole ignore

  • Well done Sir. Well done.

  • yay osama is dead

  • Well thank goodness Osama er I mean Obama

    stopped the War as soon as he was elected Eh?

  • Awesome. 

  • anyone who has the audacity to pervert the origins of this song is a MORON !! keep you Political views way away fro Mr. Cohen.. you ruin hus brand trying to equate your funky ASS Liberal Politics with the genius of Mr. Cohen. find another platform you fuckin MORON!

  • @huskerdu8 Why don't you come down from that cross and use the wood to build a bridge and get over it! You warmonger repubacrats are just too afraid to admit that bush was a liar and a murderer.

  • Now you can try one on for a real terrorist and Carter clone...Obama sin Laden. Wake up, crybaby.

  • Pretty comprehensive list, which is remarkable because the song is only five and a half minutes long. Well done.

  • @gopblows: Brilliant! Thank you.

  • @gopblows: shared on Facebook also...

  • Lighten up everyone and enjoy your loves and your lives, listen to this song and enjoy the lyrics for God's sake, in whatever form you see God to be... have a liitle fun in your life, your eternal life:) we all have our battles, time to go with the flow - what can you control...nothing, but your own choices...look in the mirror, it begins with you, if you want peace, then, be peaceful...start here♥

  • Almost 300,000 views. I am really humbled that so many people would sit through something that I made. I am humbled that Leonard Cohen's Record label has never caused me any grief for making this video. I think that says a lot and I think Leonard Cohen is very talented poet/musician and I would highly recommend that you purchase some of his music.

  • @gopblows Hey, man...shared again. He forgot the line..."Another paradigmal vote not to disclose...the gop still blows...and Everybody Knows."

  • @gopblows Al-Qaeda = AL-CIA-DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @gopblows I allways liked this song & like it better with your vid

  • @gopblows The video is great! I just discovered Leonard Cohen. and bought one of his albums per an article in Rolling Stone. I'll be buying more of them, too. Thank you for the video and thanks to L.C. for such great music.

  • @BloggingMan886 I would rather have nobody take down anyone. America (The country I love and would defend to the death (Not for country but for family ,friend,and neighbor) )has done a few stupid things in the past but we are a good people at heart with a few Maniacs at the helm. Just like many have in some Muslim Countries and in Evil,Murdurous groups of Cowards that call themselves Al-Qaeda. Most people on this planet Just want a home,job,food,love,to live.It only takes 1 cowards to ruin it

  • This songwriter is clairvoyant because these lyrics were written 10 years prior to any of these photos.

  • Everybody knows war is fought for the rich......

    Everybody knows war is fought by the poor.....

    Everybody knows war is a bitch

    Where the rich get richer

    And the poor, if they're lucky, only get poorer....

  • Everybody knows that fight was fixed

    Between the democrats and the republicans

    And that Obama = Bush

    And that the good guys lost

    Everybody knows

  • I realize that this video was made in 2007 so now that you found out that democrats are the same as republicans, and that republicans are same as democrats, you can make another video using this song "everybody knows that republicrats don't work for us".

  • to stray from the seemingly common political debates (AKA flaming) I loved this song on Pump up the volume. No better song for Happy Harry Hard on's theme. And this song reminds me of my ex too. lol

    "but there was so many people you just had to meet, without your clothes."

  • Everybody knows the democrats have no ideas,

    Everybody knows the republicans have bad ideas,

    That's how it goes Everybody knows.

  • Lol @ fuck him and the Cheney he rode in on!!!"!!!!!

  • I dont hate him i dont hate Obama. I couldnt do a better job, and am glad I am not the president. I dont claim either side... Independent.

    ~

    SD19

  • could this be the greatest lyric ever written? perhaps this and "imagine" form lennon. As a musician i say to 1st listen& appreciate the music b4 the lyrics&to not take it for granted, cuz if the music wasnt so amazing then the lyric wouldnt be as noticed...howeve, i almost think the music was made FOR they lyrics in this song...unreal lyrics relieving such a message and in such a compelling way. Thats how its done..thats artistic expression at its finest.

  • You rock! Awesome vid!

  • everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody knows the boat was leaky..

    everybody knows the natives are the rightful owners.. including Leonard Norman

    (**)>>

  • everybody knows who are the real weapons of mass destruction.

    WORD

  • Good video!

  • Un-restrained greed that the Republicans love is plain old selfishness carried to the point of being socially destructive, if anything is EVIL their greed qualifies. This EVIL greed dominates the Republican agenda regardless of religious affiliation or not. For these people religion is only a cover up for their blatant greed.

  • @Aramis6849 well put, but that doesn't mean the Dems are going to save you. They have their own 'issues'. If voting 'changed' anything it would be illegal.

    Wake up ! There is no left vs. right, just 2 sides of the same coin

  • Long live KING BUSH--

  • magic i better not watch this when im on the jd

  • Cohen knows. Knows the illuminati are in control. Death to NWO!!!

  • The video doesn't load right now, it's just black screen. Maybe you took it down? (Don't hope so). Please check.

  • Why didn't he allow this on the 'Pump Up The Volume' soundtrack? This was the track in the opening scene of the film but they used the Concrete Blonde version on the CD instead.

  • @Kevinessequamvideri You are an uniformed idiot.

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  • @gopblows he might me an uninformed idiot also

  • @gopblows This video was well-done. It was how most of America were all feeling from 2005-2009. Are you Barney, or something? Bad dog!

  • @gopblows Obama does the same shit as Bush but gets a free pass in the liberal because he is black. If anybody is uninformed and an idiot it's you.

  • @Kevinessequamvideri are you nuts?

  • @Kevinessequamvideri While I admit Obama isn't as good as I hoped he'd be if Busch if a president that loved his country then I'd much rather have an illegal Keyan that hates it lead me.

  • @Roushfan5 THAT IS PRECISELY THE ATTITUDE THAT THE SOCIAL ENGINEERS WISH TO CONVEY UPON THE SHEEPLE . BARRY SOETORO WILL GET AWAY WITH LEGISLATION THAT BUSH NEVER WOULD HAVE

    WAKE UP

  • @INFOWARforYourMind TYPING WITH THE CAPS BUTTON ON MAKES YOU LOOK SMART AND PROVES YOU KNOW WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT. *sarcasm* It really makes you look like a tool.

    Anyone that uses words like "sheeple" 9 times out of 10 are being led like sheep themselves. And anyone that uses that word can't be taken seriously.

  • @INFOWARforYourMind did you mean sheep, steeple or are you making a punk prefix with people and sheep? srsly. I havent got a fkin clue. And let's face it we are all sheep. Just some of us are black, some white and some grey. Even if we choose not to follow we follow those who do not follow. irony.

  • Dont worry, calm down Amhiel & Kagebushin01. Plague will get us all soon enough. Just relax.

  • @aprilmariet08 naw we'll nuke ourselves before we as a race die of natural events

  • @Kagebushin01

    lawl

  • everybody knows that sound hare so good

  • BUSH/CHENNEY=HITLER/STALIN.

  • @blackronjeremy wait...when did Buch puch for Genocide? Agreed he's shit but i cant agree on him being equal to Hitler thats stretching it alittle too far

  • Everybody knows.

    But do they?

  • Who cares about politics. You go on living in this world wether we know the truth or not. It doesnt actually really effect us. Who cares everything is corrupt, It's to late to do anything about it.

    Everybody knows....

  • @Hennersy Everybody knows that people who think like you are the ones who let this world being so messed up. People who let all this happen doing nothing about it are just as guilty as the politics themselfs.

  • @Amhiel...

    Elie Weisel, a survivor of Auschwitz, gave a speech on the perils of indifference @ the white house 1ce. u should see it; he definitely shares your pt. of view.

  • @Amhiel ok so wheres the revolution? I got my weapons rdy im just waiting for the rest of you cowardly pricks to take up voice so we can get the revolution going but too many of you "Change Makers" as sitting round with your thumbs up your asses hopeing bitching will change shit. Before you go saying shit bout "settlers" do something that'll ACTUALLY CHANGE SOMETHING!!!

  • Weapons ready? I hope you're not talking about guns, that would've meant you hadn't understood anything. In other hand you don't know what I'm doing or not, actually I AM doing things. There's plenty of things to do, from just consume ethically to show alternatives, peaceful civil disobedience, organization, mediatic guerrilla... so, appart from being "ready", what are YOU doing?

  • Me? I aint doing shit cuz not enough ppl to help me change shit, at most i get ppl like you who like to protest, and bitch but never take actual action, you'll never change anything by simply bitching at the ppl who are in control. Why? Because they dont give a shit what you say, untill we take the power away from those who have it things will never change and you cant take something from the Controllers thru simple moaning and whining besides things never stay changed for long

  • also I just do give a Fuck, personally untill we find a way to reach true Communism, that thing where EVERYBODY is equal i dont give a shit, btw dont spout shit bout former "Communism" Countrys, not a single one got to Communism, they had dictatorship, fascism, and socialism but none had Communism as it was originally writen as, a Country where all People are equal and are given Equal treatment, care, ect. untill then you keep playing your failing political game with the rich and powerful

  • So, if you, with all your rage aren't doing "shit" as you say, who do you expect to do it? You talk about me as if you knew me but you don't. Do you think I'm just a whiner? think again. I'm peaceful but not passive, and I'm not talking about bitching the ones above but about encouraging those on your sides. I'm talking about manipulating the market to make it fail completly now that is already falling. And of course be prepared with a proper alternative.

  • Good luck fixing shit with "peaceful" protest and opposition in your or your childrens life times

  • So, what do you propose? I'd love to read it. In my side, if you build a house out of shit, what you can only expect when you go live in there is that it stinks. I agree with you that a real communism (which hasn't already existed) would be a major improvement, but the means to get there have to be ethical.

  • @Kagebushin01 People nowadays are just pussies that can't do anything. The only ones that stand up to others are protesters and their all Leaf eating, Coke smoking hippies and all they have are signs that say "Stop testing medicine on Animals".

    People use to be brave and took shit from nobody. Citizens were their Countries voices, what the hell happened?

  • @Runies1 right on the money brother, sadly it takes more than an individual to carry out a revolution and even those of us who would like to be one to try and start it are afraid of standing out and being ignored by the masses why risking being arrested for Treason. I'll be the first to admit if not for this risk i would stand out on the streets with a megaphone demanding allies for a Revolution of Government

  • Much truth in your words... respect...

    You have to understand that the "left" was hijacked by hippies who preach nonviolence to the point of just sitting there with a gun to your head!

    FUCK THAT!

    The American revolution and more importantly the French revolution was not solved by a youtube debate.

    I don't beiieve in communisim anymore than I believe in corporatism.

    But we must fight our way out of this trap of lies.

    BUt fight smart. For our wits is ALWAYS how we came to be free.

  • ty, glad there are a few who see that it takes more then simpls arguements to change the world, also as i said i appeal to the true concept of what communism was supposed to be not what it always winds up as, in truth as long as there is greed, corruption, and such there will never be communism

  • @Kagebushin01 I Agree with you. Talking doesn't do anything.

    Lets look at Barrack Obama. Stand up to him and tell him something like "Lower Our Taxes" He will ignore and will ignore you, because to him your just another number of the people who are complaining about their taxes.

    Kidnap a family member and threaten to kill them and he will treat you as an individual. Not that it should be done or anything. just an example.

  • @Kagebushin01 Excuse the typo.

    1. World Leaders (normal people, nothing special about them i can beat the living shit out of them if their not hiding behind their Goons. e.g. Secret Service)

    Why should the presidents children be any more important then any of ours? Their not special, they just make him invite Celebrities to the white house that they like. and the celebs don't have a choice, because they will be drugged and their life erased. No one knows how it happened of course.

  • Too late for most people who accept it perhaps

  • bush will be proven right 400 years from now . 4000 soldiers dead so he can hang saddams gun in his library .fucker

  • Jzozano2, Bush will be proven right? 4000 only??? The only people that does not respect human life is the ones have never felt the value of a happy life. You got to change something!

  • JLOZANO2 ..

    You're fuckin KIDDING right?

    G W BUSH is the biggest war criminal of our time.

    I'm not keen on seeing him hanged, - but I'd really appreciate our peers locking the fucker up til his time has expired. Fuck him and the Cheney he rode in on

  • sarcasm guy sarcasm , ,4000 dead soldiers so he can hang saddams gun in his private library in texas. get it he will be proven right 400 years from now. sarcasm guy sarcasm

  • War criminal, sure. Biggest of our time? You need to watch more news. Somlia. Genocide in Darfur. etc. The list goes on.  Some messed up stuff happened in the last decade that neither the middle east nor the US had anything to do with.

  • if you lock up Bush then really you would be arresting a patsy...every president is expendable there just a poster boy the real people in charge are never even seen!!

  • @mycoolharmony never happen take nixon for example..these pigs back their own,the nobles of the states phh..history repeats itself (ROME)oil,railroad,law,these are the families that run this country..and all their kiddies went too the same high priced private schools.hmm im not a detective but seems like itzfixed!

  • Great song but a realy laim video.

  • nothing more to say...everybody knows. Hope that they will stay away forever.

  • HEY, WINGNUTS, name ONE thing conservatives have EVER done for the working class--you can't do it!! Hell, Clinton was the best republican we have ever had. Also, what did Ike warn us about in 1961? You don't know!! Ever hear of Erik Prince?? Goddamn, wingnuts are WILLFULLY ignorant!!

  • leonard's lyrics are open to any interpretation, so if the creator of this video read this into the song, then it works really well I think it's pretty good. (and I'm not a Bush hater by any means)

  • This video is completely disconnected from what the song really means. To take such a great song and turn it into some kind of dumbass political statement is just sophomoric.

  • the rich get richer the poor get the picture

  • There will always be corruption and there will always be greed, but there will always be hope and kindness and good in the world.

    Bush is really dumb

  • u are quite right. i mean the good in the world. and what about Bush, let the history be the judge.

  • This is the best lyrics he have written!

  • ooo wow...bush sucks..the government is corrupt...there are conspiracies about everything...at this rate we might as well dump technology and the life as the superior species and just go back to being monkeys...much happier *noms on banana*

  • My god...Are you retarded?

  • @gopblows No. Just a little to passionate for his message's good.

  • Prove you wrong? It's been proven to all the nuts like you. His birth certificate is all over the internet.

  • who cares... besides, if he isnt american, that's a good thing. plus white americans are just europeans that beat up a bunch of indians, so ye're all immigrants anyways

  • Has anyone ever heard the phrase "To divide and conquer" That exactly what there doing. They have you so caught up in Left vs Right you can't see who the true enemy is. There is no Left and Right all politicians are THEM. The real divide is US (poor/middle class) vs THEM (rich/elite "as they like to call themselves") And until we all distinguish who the real enemy is were just getting closer to servitude.

  • Bravo, interesting is 12 months ago I knew NONE of these, only that something wasn't right... My question as always, now what?

    truly world I am open to sugestions

  • Everybody knows the Democrats are the new Republicans and the Republicans are just freakin crazy.

  • Its the same in the UK with new Labour(Democrat) and Conservatives (Republican)

  • everybody knows obama works for the same people as bush did

  • I wish everybody realized that..

  • They both wanted to give all our money to the bankers. Bush & Obama are both pupppets of the NWO. Don't take the swine flu vaccine that's coming out in the fall. Peace - love , and don't trust the main stream media.

  • See that is the problem, Not as many people know that the swine flu vaccine has been shown to cause schizophrenia/suicide.

    Not everybody, knows that the same people that funded Obama, funded Hilary.

    Not everybody knows that Bush and Obama are related, as are 35 out of 49 of the American presidents.

    Not everybody knows that it was not Obama, err I mean Osama that flew the plan into that building. Pity the black box was never recovered but I bet that happens all the time.

    Not everybody knows!

  • "Not as many people know that the swine flu vaccine has been shown to cause schizophrenia".

    How's that? When Novartis AG hasn't even started human testing yet. Interesting that you'd know that. How can medication cause schizophrenia? When the causes are prenatal, genetic, hypoxia, certain infections, amphetamine addiction, hallucinogenic addiction, cannabis(some will argue), and possibly tobacco use. Nothing that is linked to medication. Just the facts, Jack.

  • But tell gopblows...

  • But Obama has brains.

  • Bush and Obama are on the same team. None of the issues matter if they allow the federal reserve to print our money into the abyss and sign legislation which bails out the to big fail companies aka not us. The media is horrible in this country. Have you ever seen the media report, for instance on some of these legislative pieces, (which can be 1000+ pages) how it is implemented, who voted for what, what the end result was, where the money actually went. REVOLUTION #2 is coming!!!

  • If anyone of us were in his position we would have probably done the same thing. If there was a terrorist attack in any country, people will want answers and someone to blame. The only problem is that Al-Queda is a discrete organisation of extremist Muslums, not another nation. Therefore the war had to go to the most plausable place and attack the leader.

    Osama Bin Laden.

    Thank you for reading and reply.

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  • I too don't understand what is wrong with George W Bush. The American people kept him in for two terms! What would any of us do in his situation. Being a leader of a country (be that a President, Prime Minister etc.) is a stressful occupation. Why do you think they all end up with white hair!

  • We didn't keep him. They didn't count our friggen votes.

  • everybody talks shit about bush, lets just wait and see what your new leader is going to do... nothing, nothing nothing, everybody knows........

    btw bush is not as bad as you all say he was.... and in about 4 years you all will aggree with me...

  • They all suck the same.

  • All of you truthers are retarded. The number of people who would have to be involved in the coverup is staggering.

    I've got friends in the mechanical engineering business, dicks. There isn't enough money printed for the Feds to buy their silence- no, they say the towers didn't need bombs to collapse because they *actually didn't*, not because they can become accomplices to mass murder for the low, low price of a few grants.

    Bush is just a fuckup who let something huge happen. DEAL WITH IT.

  • You know I always come back to this clip, love the song and it is sooo fitting for this government and there hidden engenders

  • Well done! I love this song, and what you did with it in this video is eerie. Bravo.

  • Yep, the truth is running rampant. Loose Change final Cut, the movie for example. It's got so many views, and yet "everybody knows" and the bad guys are still right there having got away scotfree.... Cohen put it into words so nicely.... Yeah, these guys are rotten, and they are in power. And these days almost everybody knows.... and yet, can we do anything? We can maybe watch the show, the "fools' parade"

  • Not what the songs about but still like it. 5/5

  • as long as there is love and religion in this world their will be hatred. Love breeds hatred which breeds sacrifice which in turn makes sadness.

  • THe truth carries a strange beauty - as horrific as all the lies & manipulation was & is "Everybody knows" the truth hurts.

    Is everyone so scared they would rather attack one another with irrational slander then deal with

    the truth & the times we are forced to live with. YOu can run but you can not hide, try as you may.

    Everybody Knows

  • First you say that you are not homophobic

    then you accuse me of being a "stupid gay"

    Your party and fox fed friends are losing.

    America is over you.

    Man, I love my Country.

    Change is coming

    And on the "hateful video against bush"

    All events took place with your hero at the helm..Face it the Republicans and Bush couldn't run a damn IHOP.

    Have a nice life because I am deleting all of your asinine replies from now on.

    There is enough ignorance in the world.

  • tomerdan you are a fucking clown are you stupid i supose you beleive in everything bush fed you including the credit crunh you dumb cunt stop breathing my air you deserve a bullet the cia is behind all terrorist attacks

  • Tomerdan000, you're a fukkkken dollop of rotten solidified old man's cum. What a shhiiittey arsehhole you gotta be sweetie puusssseeey Ahahah, fukkken arrrssshooooole

  • HA! you just say he's gay and your not cuz you want to hide the truth that you really are gay! who cares if gopblows doesn't like bush? and what the hell is rong with gay people? don't take it out on them! they didn't do anything!!! fuck you ya dipshit!

  • everybody knows you are GAY!!!

    " PEACE AND LOVE - WITH TERROR "

    WE HEARD IT FROM YOU SO MUCH YOU STUPID ASSHOLES.

    GET A LIFE!!!

  • I'm not. But who cares if I was gay?

    You kool-aide drenched homophobic bag of sh_t

  • What the F@#$ does being gay have to do with the war crimes Bush & his regime committed --Time to GROW UP CHILDREN. THIS IS OUR WORLD & we are all F@#$ed together. Like it or not - that is the truth.

  • LoL, as if the world hates you because of some what some Canuck says or does, dipcandlewicknsop. Yah, I think your polyarchy has the reasons for that animosity well locked down... "You people, you sit there...you're in for one helluva surprise!" -Christopher Walken.

  • HALLIBURTON HURRR

  • everybody knows GWB is a f*cking liar!!!

  • And furthermore, I bet some 18 year old who just saw Natural Born Killers thought this would be great for a social studies class project. And even furthermore I bet he or she got an "A"....mannnnnnn. Way to ruin a great song.

  • This is Leonard Cohen! Cohen is inherently political music. Music is the tool of social movements and it political.

    Look at Rock at the Sexual Revolution and Vietnam.

  • Music is art.  Art is a safe place where people can talk about politics and other unpleasantries. Deal.

  • the history of great musicians

    makes you look like a total fool.

    take off them blinders

    conservative? liberal?

    demoCreePublican't

    meaninglesShit for the braindead

    brainwashedumasSheePhooLunatic­!

  • This songs been playing over and over in my head at school recently. It's like a curse I keep mumbling it during tests!! Still it's not a bad tune.

  • treasure brown, churchill said that

  • Pump Up The Volume is the Christian Slater movie. The movie has Cohen singing the song, but the soundtrack has Concret Blonde doing a cover. This is MUCH better than the cover.

  • one of Leonard Cohen's other songs was used in the watchmen film.

  • first we take manhattan, and rufus wainwrights covr of hallelijah

  • Yes!

    I've been looking for this for ages. its from that film with christian slater.

  • Yes they know, but it is possible to keep up the fight.

  • i liked this song and u had to ruin it with your over popularised anti bush sentament.

  • You can't please everybody.

    Everyone else seems to like it.

  • No complaints here.

    Seems more relevant than ever.

  • keep politics out? and put it where.. in the sand along with your head? lol

  • Keep politics out? That's just silly!

    I'm a right wing Republican and I like the video.

    I don't know who said it...something like:

    "A twenty year old conservative has no heart and a forty year old liberal has no brains."

    I say let the youth have there ideals! The world has a sad way of beating ideals out of idealists.

    (and bush wasn't exactly a great president... and obama isn't going to be either.)

  • Ha! So true. Anarchy is what I like, but yesm, Bush and Yobama both are....well, freemason douche bag - world banker asskissers.

  • THey are both GIANT douche bags!!!! It is wonderful to be in a country where I can call it like I see it!!

  • Did you hear about the people being weeded out and arrested in cities along obama's campaign trail towards the end who "disagreed"?

    Mmmm his black and red suit sure was sharp.

  • No matter what you say...

    "EVERYBODY Knows!!!!!"

  • How bad by Nicole D Keewatin

    How bad is bad, I'm so stuck in crazy and if I love a very hot kitty lady, it might only last for so long, and if it's like this and like this and she is gone, she wasn't worth it, she didnt love me the way I loved her, thats how I feel about people if I'm like this, this wild, and cannot be loved or stirred, they say it's not the world ,

  • KILL!

  • Well, if Bush actually knew the rudimentaries of English grammar we would trust him. Somebody who cannot string a sentence together should not be running the country. Cohen for president!

  • what programs did u use for the effect, i like them.

  • It is a shame how people dishonor the head of the country that they live in. Even if you don't like him give some respect. Because if you don't do so people from other countries will sure not.

  • It's called democracy.. And he deserves the shame.

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