Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Album: Live Songs

Everybody Knows Lyrics

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded 

 Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed 

 Everybody knows that 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 

 Everybody knows that the boat is leaking 

 Everybody knows that the captain lied 

 Everybody got this broken feeling 

 Like their father or their dog just died 

 

 Everybody talking to their pockets 

 Everybody wants a box of chocolates 

 And a long stem rose 

 Everybody knows 

 

 Everybody knows that you love me baby 

 Everybody knows that you really do 

 Everybody knows that you've been faithful 

 Ah give or take a night or two 

 Everybody knows you've been discreet 

 But there were so many people you just had to meet 

 Without your clothes 

 And everybody knows 

 

 Everybody knows, everybody knows 

 That's how it goes 

 Everybody knows 

 

 Everybody knows, everybody knows 

 That's how it goes 

 Everybody knows 

 

 And everybody knows that it's now or never 

 Everybody knows that it's me or you 

 And everybody knows that you live forever 

 Ah when you've done a line or two 

 Everybody knows the deal is rotten 

 Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton 

 For your ribbons and bows 

 And everybody knows 

 

 And everybody knows that the Plague is coming 

 Everybody knows that it's moving fast 

 Everybody knows that the naked man and woman 

 Are just a shining artifact of the past 

 Everybody knows the scene is dead 

 But there's gonna be a meter on your bed 

 That will disclose 

 What everybody knows 

 

 And everybody knows that you're in trouble 

 Everybody knows what you've been through 

 From the bloody cross on top of Calvary 

 To the beach of Malibu 

 Everybody knows it's coming apart 

 Take one last look at this Sacred Heart 

 Before it blows 

 And everybody knows 

 

 Everybody knows, everybody knows 

 That's how it goes 

 Everybody knows 

 

 Oh everybody knows, everybody knows 

 That's how it goes 

 Everybody knows 

 

 Everybody knows