First we take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen (cover)

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 this 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 there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those items that you sent me
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ready
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah remember me, I used to live for music
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded
First we take Manhattan...

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[Orkomagic]

What the heck kind of video is this? Assigning meaning to a song that has nothing to do with what the video is trying to convey? So trite.

[edumota]

thanks for your opinion.. but the images are only my personal vision on the song, therefore, would be, with different certainty of its point of view...

[stdbl]

Good work Eduardo. Excellent Video.

[XPUPA]

edumota I like yor point of wiev as I MADE IT MYSELF ...niceee voice...

[exalunosero]

Quem fez este vídeo não percebeu qual o tema desta canção. Qual o interesse do autor em de ilustrar um poema que não compreendeu ?

[mainsqueeze1977]

I don't think so. The prison images actually do not fit the lyrics. He sings about "20 years of boredom", not in a jail but in some job "within" the system through which he thought he could change the system. Nothing happened and that's why he's bored and now he is resorting to terrorism.

[XPUPA]

I LIKE THIS POINT OF VIEW it s not much away from what COHEN WANTS to saY(SKY OVER BERLIN is the film where Cohen s version is obvius just20 years ago when it was a hit...)R.E,S.P.E.C.T.

[AlexQTube]

the cover is ok, i just thought the video was too obvious, just images of the words being sang.

[zomoder]

All sides suck big time but that's freaking world we live in and support by living there!

To have that machine running you need to destroy nature and people who are beeing used as hungry slaves. Nuke them and us all for all I care!