Leonard Cohen Wednesday at Knight Center. By Geniusofdepair

I went to Leonard Cohen's almost 4 hour concert Wednesday. He is still going strong at 78 years old. What can I say about him? Let the lyrics from some of his songs do the talking, They are masterful, each is a different song but they are linked to the whole song so you can go see them in context:

Everybody knows the fight was fixed

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich

That's how it goes

Everybody knows

Photos by Stu

Dance me to the children who are asking to be born

Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn

Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn

Dance me 

To the end of love

And here are a few stanzas from Democracy:

It's coming through a hole in the air
From those nights in Tienanmen Square
It's coming from the feel
That this ain't exactly real
Or it's real but it ain't exactly there

From the wars 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.

And 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.