Lyrics Democracy.lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: pshjbvsx]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: The Future]
[ti: Democracy]
[length: 07:12]
[00:19.87]It’s coming through a hole in the air,
[00:24.15]From those nights in Tiananmen Square.
[00:29.29]It’s coming from the feel
[00:31.52]That this ain’t exactly real
[00:33.96]Or it’s real, but it ain’t exactly there
[00:38.68]From the wars against disorder
[00:41.15]From the sirens night and day
[00:43.46]From the fires of the homeless
[00:45.80]From the ashes of the gay
[00:48.57]Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
[00:54.80]
[01:11.53]It’s coming through a crack in the wall
[01:17.51]On a visionary flood of alcohol
[01:22.37]From the staggering account
[01:24.75]Of the Sermon on the Mount
[01:27.32]Which I don’t pretend to understand at all
[01:32.40]It’s coming from the silence
[01:34.65]On the dock of the bay
[01:36.91]From the brave, the bold, the battered
[01:39.37]Heart of Chevrolet
[01:42.01]Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
[01:48.83]
[02:06.46]It’s coming from the sorrow in the street
[02:11.28]The holy places where the races meet
[02:15.59]From the homicidal bitchin’
[02:18.18]That goes down in every kitchen
[02:20.61]To determine who will serve and who will eat
[02:25.43]From the wells of disappointment
[02:28.01]Where the women kneel to pray
[02:30.51]For the grace of God in the desert here
[02:33.68]And the desert far away
[02:35.40]Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
[02:42.12]
[02:59.75]Sail on, sail on
[03:04.45]O mighty Ship of State!
[03:09.25]To the Shores of Need
[03:11.65]Past the Reefs of Greed
[03:14.08]Through the Squalls of Hate
[03:16.42]Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
[03:26.79]
[03:36.52]It’s coming to America first
[03:41.33]The cradle of the best and of the worst.
[03:46.08]It’s here they got the range
[03:48.33]And the machinery for change
[03:50.60]And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst
[03:55.72]It’s here the family’s broken
[03:58.03]And it’s here the lonely say
[04:00.38]That the heart has got to open
[04:02.87]In a fundamental way
[04:05.35]Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
[04:11.48]
[04:25.19]It’s coming from the women and the men
[04:30.60]
[04:34.43]O baby, we’ll be making love again
[04:39.18]We’ll be going down so deep
[04:42.06]The river’s going to weep
[04:44.45]And the mountain’s going to shout Amen!
[04:49.24]It’s coming like the tidal flood
[04:52.05]Beneath the lunar sway
[04:53.95]Imperial, mysterious
[04:56.20]In amorous array
[04:58.77]Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
[05:05.16]
[05:23.17]Sail on, sail on
[05:28.01]O mighty Ship of State!
[05:32.68]To the Shores of Need
[05:35.15]Past the Reefs of Greed
[05:37.41]Through the Squalls of Hate
[05:42.33]Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on
[05:53.09]
[05:59.21]I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
[06:03.97]I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
[06:08.99]And I’m neither left or right
[06:11.39]I’m just staying home tonight
[06:13.79]Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
[06:18.52]But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
[06:21.93]That Time cannot decay
[06:23.78]I’m junk but I’m still holding up
[06:26.35]This little wild bouquet
[06:28.64]Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
[06:33.50]Year of Release: 1992