Crucial Track for May 14, 2025

"Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen

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Prompt: What’s a lyric that resonates deeply with you and why?

A 40-year-old song for our moment. History repeats, I suppose. This song blew my middle-school brain when I heard it in Pump Up the Volume. Great movie, great song. Piss-poor world.

>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