Leonard Cohen, A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes

I made this video with still shots of an upcoming independent film we're making in Tucson called Gun Heavy. At the two minute mark I used authentic Vietnam War photos a friend had emailed me. I'm in no way glorifying the horrific, just thought the song fit.

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[alannigelmarshall]

I wanted to save this song to my favorites since it has been for many years, but the video out me iff....I had a very different image of the song and it screws my head up a but to see all these soldiers automatically take in hero status in a very shallow interpretation of the song..

[Eagleray99]

I'd go along with most of that....I think the Nazis were brutal killers who had to be stopped and the Taliban are muslim fascists who want to drag the world back to the middle ages.

[Eagleray99]

@whiterchocolate I think it is more complex than that. A fascist is someone who believes that the state should be the organ that decides the way that a society should be run as opposed to the people deciding. And yes, i do believe that there are situations where intervention is correct, Those who say that intervention is hypocritcically selective are correct up to  a point, but one cannot really say that Afghanistan is about oil. It is, to a great degree, a genuine war of self-defence.

[whiterchocolate]

@Eagleray99 so if some other country doesn't agree with us they should come here and kill us? you know america is not a bunch of saints read some history. here are a few topics if you care eugenics in america , Tuskegee experiment, infecting Guatemalans with syphilis , depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan, sv-40 virus in polio vaccine, Halliburton sex trade, and probably the worst of all the jersey shore . but really read about some of this stuff for a few hours then tell me about it

[whiterchocolate]

@Eagleray99 haha do you even know what a fascist is?

[fleadle34]

@Eagleray99 Buddhas teachings are the key to enlightenment !

[cirrus2525]

Good job! This song is fabulous.

[bowlbrawl]

jpeg videos are the best. especially when the lyric says "apple" and you show an "apple" i just wanted to hear this great canadian song yall. i've turned into gold.

[onlinelondon]

@Oberonius

Correct!!

[onlinelondon]

This is my favourite Cohen song....

Bringing so much of memories with it....

Eerie and beautiful in a terrible mixture of thoughts and heart beats....

[Oberonius]

@alannigelmarshall

"I sing this for the crickets, I sing this for the army, I sing this for you children"

It's not about war heroes man. It's about people that has passed through suffering for someone else, but nobody really cares.That doesn't necessarily have to be a soldier.

And one more thing: just becouse you don't like the army, you can't say that there ain't no heroes in it. Sorry for the poor english

[zeldagoblin]

Believing is one thing. Acting on their sick beliefs to cause harm is quite another. Their beliefs have caused tyranny and anguish.