So much is broken.  Leonard Cohen wrote that's where the light gets it.  Or course, it can also leak out or we can see the darkness.  From venal people in office to secret efforts to rip healthcare from Americans along with our treasure. Everybody knows, everybody knows.  Yet we have the music of and poetry of Leonard Cohen that carries on. Today -- We remember Leonard Cohen.  I heard him once in concert in London, with his band, and lovely swaying back-up singers, as he crooned deeply and intimately into his microphone.  He must have been 78 or so then, and kept the show going strong for over four hours.


SYLVIE SIMMONS - The biographer of LEONARD COHEN.

CONSPIRACY OF BEARDS -- The all-male chorus which sings only the music, the words, of LEONARD COHEN.  They are performing in San Francisco, November 4th, in a multi-group concert of the words of Leonard Cohen.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded

Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

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 knows, everybody knows

Songwriters: LEONARD COHEN, SHARON ROBINSON