Everybody Knows Lyrics

                             Leonard Cohen
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   Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
   Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
   Everybody knows the war is over
   Everybody knows the good guys lost
   Everybody knows the fight was fixed:
   The poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That's how it goes
   Everybody knows

   Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
   Everybody knows the captain lied
   Everybody got this broken feeling
   Like their father or their dog just died
   Everybody talking to their pockets
   Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long stem rose
   Everybody knows

   Everybody knows that you love me, baby
   Everybody knows that you really do
   Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two
   Everybody knows you've been discreet, 
   But there were so many people you just had to meet without your clothes
   And everybody knows

   And everybody knows that its now or never
   Everybody knows that its me or you
   And everybody knows that you live forever when you've done a line or two
   Everybody knows the deal is rotten:
   Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton for your ribbons and bows
   And everybody knows

   Everybody knows that the Plague is coming
   Everybody knows that it's moving fast 
   Everybody knows that the naked man and woman ---
   Just a shining artifact of the pest
   Everybody knows the scene is dead, 
   But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
   That will disclose what everybody knows

   And everybody knows that you're in trouble
   Everybody knows what you've been through,
   From the bloody cross on top of Calvary to the beach of Malibu
   Everybody knows it's coming apart:
   Take one last look at this Sacred Heart before it blows
   And everybody knows



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