Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

From Anthem by Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

A crack. Since quite a few evenings hearing almost nothing but Leonard Cohen’s records, older and newer, all these songs of love and hate…

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 that 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

[…]
Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows
[…]

From Everybody knows by Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

I choose the rooms that I live in with care,
The windows are small and the walls almost bare,
There’s only one bed and there’s only one prayer;
I listen all night for your step on the stair.
But I know from your eyes
And I know from your smile
That tonight will be fine,
Will be fine, will be fine, will be fine
For a while.

From Tonight Will Be Fine by Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)

I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond,
They tied me to this table right here in the Tower of Song

From Tower of song by Leonard Cohen (1934-2016)