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There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Leonard Cohen

Anthem

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Cohen, Leonard. "Anthem." The Future. Columbia Records, 1992.

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Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

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The Favourite Game

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 2, ch. 19.

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

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The Favourite Game

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 3, ch. 8.

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I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.

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Cohen, Leonard. Quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom." The Daily Telegraph, 26 Apr. 1993.

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Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

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Hallelujah

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Cohen, Leonard. "Hallelujah." Various Positions. Columbia Records, 1984.

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Everybody knows 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.

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Everybody Knows

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Cohen, Leonard and Sharon Robinson. "Everybody Knows." Performed by Leonard Cohen. I'm Your Man. Columbia Records, 1988.

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There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in

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Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

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I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.

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Now, maybe there's a God above As for me all I've ever learned from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

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Everybody knows 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.

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There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Everybody knows 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.