Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows 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


Everyone knows that the plague is ciming....and so as the virus from the far East detracts and spreads fear. I hear anecdotal stories of a fall in demand for Chinese food and abuse from people shouted and screamed at those deemed to look Chinese. The reality is that more die from pneumonia that the present death rate from the corona virus. A moral panic i s created and the fog obscures the reality of political events and motivations here of the Johnson government. As a Tory advisor flirts with eugenics and racism we see what lurks beneath. As Dominic Cummings concentrates power in a decreasing number of hands and we find austerity booming again, while the north and the left behind glimpse reality. As Lisa Nandy stands up for corporations and criticises the right to strike we know that the deal is rotten and every body knows...and on Radio 4 I hear Alistair Campbell accuse Dominic Cummings of being a bully and of having an obsession with power and on Port Talbot delusion and arseholes Adam Makowski who promotes conspiracy theories of Rothchillds proportions tells me that I am full of hatred...oh well..

Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows 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 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

And 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