Anthem (The Future)
The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The Holy Dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government -
signs for all to see.
I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.
Ring the bells that still can ring ...
You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring ...
German translation service:
praise
The birds were singing
At dawn
fishing again from scratch
I heard them sing
Hang 'not on the
What past
is or what the future may bring
is again
wars
give the Holy Dove
If Purchased recaptured
and sold
And again bought
She never is free
Ring the bells that still sound
put an end to all your efforts
There is a crack in everything
But as is the light to enter (*)
We asked for signs
We were given: the birth betrayed
wasted Marriage
The widow
Each government
characters, see the each (**)
I can not
run along with those lawless lot
While the killers in the top spots
out loud its truths announce
But they have a thundercloud
counter be applied
And they will hear from me Ring the bells
that ring still can ...
You can add the parts
But you do not get the whole thing
you can play the march
But it lacks the
drum Every heart, every heart is to love
find but only as a refugee
Ring the bells that still Sound ...
(*) is a double image: the light of truth shines through the cracks (the transitory and the failure) in everything we do, but also the cracks even that truth
(**) whereas that in the mental health system is nothing really works - "a crack in everything." "With" widowhood of every government Cohen says likely that the potentially compensating partners act out the opposition out must be - that governments must act therefore always sided
The interview quotes testify how serious it is Cohen with the text In the end, he describes the total.. rejection of all attempts to make the reality of human dignity, life on added get ordinary way. The solution is suggested: real (not the romantic) love is accessible only by turning away: the light reaches us, if we accept the futility of our work ("cracks in everything").
'"Ring the bells that sound more' - there are very few 'put an end to all your efforts' -. That's the whole point, that is important ... We have that central myth of our culture lost sight of, describing the expulsion from the Garden of Eden. This situation is not the solution to reach any perfection. Here we can hammer out anything more perfect, neither marriage nor job, nothing, not even our love to God or our family or our country. All this is incomplete and poorly --- 'There is a crack in everything,' which to put together, in matters of physical or mental nature, in all that we constructed. But that is where the light enters where something is resurrected ... and the place of regret. We encounter the fractured nature of the whole. "
interviews Unlimited for Sony Music, 1992
" It's difficult for me to comment on just that particular song, I was sitting ten years of it. I stand fully behind every single line in it. I stand behind every line of the album, but on this song especially. I hesitated a long time to bring him because something was not right or is not appropriate or not you or me the pictures were too abrupt or too intrusive, but as it stands now, he makes his appearance. I had played the song for many years and knew I had a really good song on the track. I know that he stands for something clear and strong in my heart. www.rohkost
Interview 1992 ("The Future Press Kit")
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