Anthem

artist:Leonard Cohen

, writer:Leonard Cohen

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 {t:Anthem}
{artist:Leonard Cohen}
{key: G}
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1jzl0NlTmzY Capo 1
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[Am]  [G]  
The birds they [C] sang at the break of day
Start a-[G]gain I heard them [C] say [C7]   
Don't [E7] dwell on what has [Am] passed away
or what is [G] yet to be. [G]    
 
The [C] wars they will be fought again
The holy [G] dove, she will be [C] caught again
[E7] bought and sold and [Am] bought again
the dove is [G] never free. [G]  
{soc}
Ring the [F] bells that [Bb] still can [F] ring.
Forget your [Bb] perfect offe-[F] ring.
There is a [C] crack, a [Bb] crack, in [F] everything.
That's how the [G] light gets [Dm] in.  [G]      
{eoc}
We asked for [C] signs, the signs were sent
the birth be-[G] trayed [G7] the marriage [C] spent
the [E7] widowhood of every [Am] government -
signs for [G] all to see. [G]  
 
I can't run no [C] more [C] with the lawless crowd
while the [G] killers in high places
say their [C] prayers out loud.
But they've [E7] summoned, they've summoned up
A [Am] thundercloud, and they're [G] here for me. [G]  
{soc}
Ring the [F] bells that [Bb] still can [F] ring.
Forget your [Bb] perfect offe-[F] ring.
There is a [C] crack, a [Bb] crack, in [F] everything.
That's how the [G] light gets [Dm] in.   [G]      
{eoc}   
You can add up the [C] parts [C] but you won't have the sum
You can [G] strike up the march, there [C] is no drum
Every [E7] heart, every heart to [Am] love will come
but like a [G] refugee.  [G]  
{soc}
Ring the [F] bells that [Bb] still can [F] ring.
Forget your [Bb] perfect offe-[F] ring.
There is a [C] crack, a [Bb] crack, in [F] everything.
That's how the [G] light gets [Dm] in.  [G]      

Ring the [F] bells that [Bb] still can [F] ring.
Forget your [Bb] perfect offe-[F] ring.
There is a [C] crack, a [Bb] crack, in [F] everything.
That's how the [G] light gets [Dm] in. [G]      
That's how the [G] light gets [Dm] in. [G]

Song Info

Title: Anthem

Artist: Leonard Cohen

Writer: Leonard Cohen

Song Types: Folk, Rock

Key: G

Info: The Future is the ninth studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. Almost an hour in length, it was Cohen's longest album up to that date. Both the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1992 Los Angeles riots took place while Cohen was writing and recording the album, which expressed his sense of the world's turbulence. The album was recorded with a large cast of musicians and engineers in several different studios; the credits list almost 30 female singers. The album built on the success of Cohen's previous album, I'm Your Man, and garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews. The Future made the Top 40 in the UK album charts, went double platinum in Canada, and sold a quarter of a million copies in the U.S., which had previously been unenthusiastic about Cohen's albums

According to Ira Nadel's 1996 Cohen memoir Various Positions, the title track was originally called "If You Could See What's Coming Next", and underwent extensive rewrites, taking up almost sixty pages in Cohen's notebook, while "Closing Time" took two years with Cohen even starting over from scratch on the song as late as March 1992. Nadel also reveals that "Anthem" was borrowed from Kabbalistic sources, especially the sixteenth-century rabbi Isaac Luria. In the Paul Zollo book Songwriters on Songwriting, Cohen explains that it takes him so long to finish songs because "Nothing works. After a while, if you stick with the song long enough it will yield. But long enough is way beyond any reasonable estimation of what you think long enough may be...'Anthem' took a decade to write. And I've recorded it three times. More." This is borne out by the fact that some of the lyrics already appear in the song "The Bells" from the soundtrack of the 1986 film Night Magic. In the same interview, Cohen spoke at length about "Democracy", admitting that he wrote 60 verses for it.

Three songs from this album, "Anthem", "The Future", and the menacing "Waiting for the Miracle" (co-written by Sharon Robinson) were used prominently on the soundtrack for Oliver Stone's 1994 film Natural Born Killers. "Waiting for the Miracle" also appeared in the film Wonder Boys starring Michael Douglas and "The Future" was featured in The Life of David Gale starring Kevin Spacey. A cover version of "Light as The Breeze" by Billy Joel appears on the tribute album Tower of Song released in 1995. Billy Joel included his version on his compilation Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume III in 1997. A cover version of "Anthem" appears on the album Matador: The Songs of Leonard Cohen released by the Canadian singer Patricia O'Callaghan in 2012, and Bob Seger included a cover of "Democracy" on his 2017 album I Knew You When.

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Anthem

artist:Leonard Cohen

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