Everybody knows that you live forever, especially when they've done a line or two. — Leonard Cohen
Posted Apr 6, 2017, 4:34 AM UTC
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Everybody knows that the deal is rotten Old Black Joe is still picking cotton For your ribbons and bows And everybody knows
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I love that line and the whole song gives me chills, no matter how many times I hear it. He will be missed.
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Oh, you!
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He sings it variously. In it's simplest form: Everybody knows you live forever when you've done a line or two.
Do I know you? Just wondering at the, "Oh, you." "Oh, you" as in good or bad or too cliched?
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BTW, I'm also John, and a sometimes writer outside the Internet, for newspapers, here and there.
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From the song Everybody Knows.