Democracy
By
Leonard Cohen
Album
The Future
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♪ (Music) ♪
♪ It's coming through a hole in
the air ♪
♪ From those nights in Tiananmen
Square ♪
♪ It's coming from the feel ♪
♪ That it ain't exactly real ♪
♪ Or it's real, but it ain't
exactly there ♪
♪ From the war against
disorder ♪
♪ From the sirens night and
day ♪
♪ From the fires of the
homeless ♪
♪ From the ashes of the gay ♪
♪ Democracy is coming to the
U.S.A ♪
♪ It's coming through a crack in
the wall ♪
♪ On a visionary flood of
alcohol ♪
♪ From the staggering account ♪
♪ Of the Sermon on the Mount ♪
♪ Which I don't pretend to
understand at all ♪
♪ It's coming from the silence ♪
♪ On the dock of the bay ♪
♪ From the brave, the bold, the
battered ♪
♪ Heart of Chevrolet ♪
♪ Democracy is coming to the
U.S.A ♪
♪ It's coming from the sorrow in
the street ♪
♪ The holy places where the
races meet ♪
♪ From the homicidal bitchin' ♪
♪ That goes down in every
kitchen ♪
♪ To determine who will serve
and who will eat ♪
♪ From the wells of
disappointment ♪
♪ Where the women kneel to
pray ♪
♪ For the grace of God in the
desert here ♪
♪ And the desert far away ♪
♪ Democracy is coming to the
U.S.A ♪
♪ Sail on, sail on ♪
♪ O mighty ship of state! ♪
♪ To the shores of need ♪
♪ Past the reefs of greed ♪
♪ Through the squalls of hate ♪
♪ Sail on, sail on, sail on... ♪
♪ It's coming to America first ♪
♪ The cradle of the best and of
the worst ♪
♪ It's here they got the range ♪
♪ And the machinery for change ♪
♪ And it's here they got the
spiritual thirst ♪
♪ It's here the family's
broken ♪
♪ And it's here the lonely say ♪
♪ That the heart has got to
open ♪
♪ In a fundamental way ♪
♪ Democracy is coming to the
U.S.A ♪
♪ It's coming from the women and
the men ♪
♪ Oh baby, we'll be making love
again ♪
♪ We'll be going down so deep ♪
♪ The river's going to weep ♪
♪ And the mountain's going to
shout Amen! ♪
♪ It's coming like the tidal
flood ♪
♪ Beneath the lunar sway ♪
♪ Imperial, mysterious ♪
♪ In amorous array ♪
♪ Democracy is coming to the
U.S.A ♪
♪ Sail on, sail on ♪
♪ O mighty ship of state! ♪
♪ To the shores of need ♪
♪ Past the reefs of greed ♪
♪ Through the squalls of hate ♪
♪ Sail on, sail on, sail on... ♪
♪ I'm sentimental, if you know
what I mean ♪
♪ I love the country but I can't
stand the scene ♪
♪ And I'm neither left or
right ♪
♪ I'm just staying home
tonight ♪
♪ Getting lost in that hopeless
little screen ♪
♪ But I'm stubborn as those
garbage bags ♪
♪ That time cannot decay ♪
♪ I'm junk but I'm still holding
up ♪
♪ This little wild bouquet ♪
♪ Democracy is coming to the
U.S.A ♪
♪ (Music) ♪
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