Leonard Cohen - Democracy (Spoken)

[HopeWithPandora]

This poem started my day...

It will end it too...

LC nailed my thoughts...just more succinctly!!!

[kemchobhenchod]

it's here the family's broken

and it's here the lonelies say

that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way

[longfootbuddy]

the tyranny of the majority over the individual

[1234leca1]

This is amazing,Love to Leonard.xxx

[im4out]

superb..

[hassan1879]

where is democracy ? why can't i see?,did any one know what real democracy is?or we are believing what we told from media and our politician's?democracy is not this what we have now in this world i am sure about it

[TheFriedLiverAttack]

hey rome i get your thunder cloud...lol

[evencool1]

He is Canadian!

[bobjfs]

@nomadicbede Yup... Federalist 10. And, the Constitution gives the President the right to put down insurrection.

[400ZEBRAS]

Is this on an actual album//or did you put that music back there,,,because its pretty great. Too bad it gets cut off like that at the end

[saldek2]

does anyone know the name of the background music?

[1000KissesDeep1]

No sure but about two years ago Leonard was touring Europe with classical composer Philip Glass. From what I understood, Leonard was reading his poetry while Philip Glass was performing piano.

[pennyscofield]

Dark and compelling. I loved it.

[Permindex]

Our US Govt has been hijacked by the CFR. The Fed/Central Bank and international banker's secret societies have killed our Presidents who crossed them. We the People need to use the Declaration of Independence to tear this multicultural democracy down and form a new REPUBLIC for the People by the People. If it means fighting Rothschild's England & EU so be it. We can start by closing UN in NY & taking Rockefeller's money to finance We the People's REVOLUTION. NWO's DNA is to be Exterminated.

[Permindex]

I didn't say anything about Obama. He is our new President and I accept that. The People have spoken. I am not a racist or white supremacist. I do know what a republic is. President Lincoln was killed by the Rothschilds because he didn't finance the civil war through the Central Bank but printed Greenbacks interest free using our US Treasury. I see what your mutlicultural democracy has done for Britain. Your mercantilism has imported people into Britain that hate you. Now they war on you.

[Permindex]

REVOLUTION Declaration of Independence Says So if adhered to. Time to Fight and reform the REPUBLIC. Tear down the multicultural democracy and become American Patriots. If the government is not for The People, by The People it is up to We The People to tear it down and form a new one. We the People use our Declaration of Independence to protect our Bill of Rights and US Constitution. The perfect government for We the People if We the People protect these Instruments of FREEDOM.

[MrDuffy81]

Inspiration!

[BoojumFed]

Lol! As soon as I stopped looking for this version on YouTube (6 months ago) you put it up! I'm not loving your timing, BuachaillBeo, but have absolutely no complaints on your taste!

[bearsagainstevil]

oh god no, I saw this man live in glastonbury well one song I couldnt stand more , and it brought me near to suicide I felt worse than when I was paralysed from the neck down for 21 hours and they thought for good thats how he effected me .

how you guys like him I shall never understand , someone just sent me this link I didnt know it was going to be him again

[EternalXBlight]

Excellent version!

[Logicbeatslies]

There is a song as well. The spoken word part starts first.

[MySerpentine]

What, A real American Poet, how'd that happen? I thought we were all just supposed to watch TV.

[l2cb]

he is canadian

[F81N]

go

north

america

[hesperus99]

Wow, Leonard Cohen and also Glen Gould! Canada has a few of the old wandering race to boast of! This is spoken, by the way, by a third generation wandering Irishman. Thank God for the wanderers!

[bravotwo20]

@MySerpentine lol walt whitman? america has a few... but they are those who seem contradictory to the term american. im not american btw

[wormtwo]

@bravotwo20 Yeah, exactly.

[SevenMillionDollars]

@MySerpentine

He's Canadian. ;)

[bwallace77]

@MySerpentine I wish we could could claim him but he is from Canada. As far as a real American Poet, Ginsberg, Jim Morrison... well hell you figure it out. Turn off your t.v.!

[MySerpentine]

Right on, Leo!!!

[31fergus]

Go iontach ar fad, maith thú.

[quedinosrumorosos]

Breathtaking...

[febris1936]

please check the lyrics, cause they do not coincide exactly with the song. some paragraphs are jumped...

[Kosettaro]

Love u man