Lyrics Democracy (Live).lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshkxggd]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Live In London]
[ti: Democracy (Live)]
[length: 07:09]
[00:00.82]I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
[00:04.83]I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
[00:10.97]And I’m neither left or right
[00:14.26]I’m just staying home tonight
[00:17.25]Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
[00:21.16]But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
[00:24.41]That time cannot decay
[00:27.16]I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet
[00:33.98]Democracy is coming to the USA
[00:39.22]
[00:52.46]It’s coming through a hole in the air
[00:56.65]From those nights in Tiananmen Square
[01:01.33]It’s coming from the feel that this ain’t exactly real
[01:05.64]Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there
[01:10.30]From the war against disorder
[01:12.78]From the sirens night and day
[01:15.04]From the fires of the homeless
[01:17.60]From the ashes of the gay
[01:19.04]Democracy is coming to the USA
[01:26.05]
[01:38.98]It’s coming on through a crack in the wall
[01:43.41]On a visionary flood of alcohol
[01:47.76]From the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount
[01:52.35]Which I don’t pretend to understand at all
[01:56.96]It’s coming from the silence on the dock of the bay
[02:01.82]From the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet
[02:06.95]Democracy is coming to the USA
[02:13.05]
[02:25.53]It’s coming from the sorrow in the street
[02:30.22]The holy places where the races meet
[02:34.74]From the homicidal bitchin’ that goes down in every kitchen
[02:39.60]To determine who will serve and who will eat
[02:44.00]From the wells of disappointment
[02:46.41]Where the women kneel to pray
[02:48.82]For the grace of God in the desert here and the desert far away
[02:53.83]Democracy is coming to the USA
[02:59.99]
[03:16.69]Sail on, sail on
[03:21.68]Oh, mighty ship of state
[03:26.07]To the shores of need
[03:28.25]Past the reefs of greed
[03:30.70]Through the squalls of hate
[03:34.53]Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
[03:45.73]
[03:52.34]It’s coming to America first
[03:56.76]The cradle of the best and of the worst
[04:01.39]It’s here they’ve got the range and the machinery for change
[04:05.98]And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst
[04:10.80]It’s here the family’s broken and it’s here the lonely say
[04:15.29]That the heart has got to open in a fundamental way
[04:20.46]Democracy is coming to the USA
[04:26.59]
[04:38.84]It’s coming from the women and the men
[04:43.49]Oh, darling, we’ll be making love again
[04:48.09]We’ll be going down so deep, the river’s going to weep
[04:52.53]And the mountain’s going to shout, “Amen”
[04:57.30]It’s coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway
[05:01.86]Imperial, mysterious in amorous array
[05:06.69]Democracy is coming to the USA
[05:13.07]
[05:29.77]Sail on, sail on
[05:34.59]Oh, mighty ship of state
[05:39.14]To the shores of need
[05:41.50]Past the reefs of greed
[05:43.11]Through the squalls of hate
[05:48.49](Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on)
[05:59.39]
[06:05.21]I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
[06:09.72]I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
[06:14.10]And I’m neither left or right
[06:16.43]I’m just staying home tonight
[06:19.45]Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
[06:23.60]But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
[06:26.32]That time cannot decay
[06:28.32]I’m junk but I’m still holding up this little wild bouquet
[06:33.25]Democracy is coming to the USA
[06:39.23]
[06:41.62](To the USA)
[06:43.62]Year of Release: 2009