Uploaded by JohnDuex on Sep 4, 2009
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
for trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now
I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan
Then we take Berlin!
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens
I'm guided by the birthmark on my skin
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan
Then we take Berlin!
I'd really like to live beside you baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line that's moving
through the station
I told you
I told you
I told you
I was one of those!
I don't like your fashion business, Mista
I don't like those drugs that make you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan
Then we take Berlin!
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@MerleFatz From what I know, it's at least partly inspired by RAF, so it IS about marxism and terrorism, at least particularly.
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What has the footage of 9/11 to do with Cohen's song. Are you some kind of muppet?
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Some sympathetic Islamic retard has mixed this. Fuck you...we're coming for you, your creeping, hateful gospel of fear will be crushed beneath the heel of righteousness and freedom.
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this is very offensive
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What a retard who combined that song and this video!
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"Official"? No way...
3 weeks ago 4
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If you study the lyrics and contemplate the mind of the Muslim you'll see a connection.
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How can one not think of Os iris & I sis in this song?
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Pairing this song with these visuals is completely, repulsively, and stupidly wrong. The song is not about war, not about terrorism, not about Marxism, and certainly not about Islam. It is about one generation's lingering hope for a triumph of humanism.
2 months ago 2
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Perhaps we could connect the video somehow... Like "First we storm Twin Towers, then we take Wall Street!" ;)
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How 9/11 has to do with this song? Stop misleading people, It's NOT official.
slampog 5 months ago 19
Video is totally unfitted to song. Cohen's song is about marxism in some very distorted form not about the nauseating events of 11.9.
Try Alban berg's Piana Sonata at youtube for a change.
TimJakeGl 6 months ago 10