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The lyrics of "Democracy" discuss the failings and the promise of democracy in the United States of America. [2] American Songwriter contrasted "Democracy" with "Born in the USA", writing that Cohen uses a similar musical style to express "clear-eyed optimism" about the country's future, despite his description of the US as "the cradle of the best and the worst". [3]
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. [1]
At the 2017 Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen concert, "Democracy" was performed by Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers, and "The Future" was performed by Elvis Costello. [7] The Lumineers would go on to include an official cover of "Democracy" as a bonus track for their third studio album, III, in 2019.
In 2022, Canadian-Israeli journalist Matti Friedman referenced the song title with his book, Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai. The book is an account of Cohen's experience performing in the Sinai. [4] A 2024 French-Canadian film, Who by Fire, directly references the song in its English-language title. [5]
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Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy is an album by Judy Collins, released in 2004. It collected songs written by Leonard Cohen (or in the case of " Song of Bernadette ", co-written with Jennifer Warnes and Bill Elliott) from Collins' previous albums, as well as four previously unreleased recordings.
You Want It Darker is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released on October 21, 2016, by Columbia Records, 17 days before Cohen's death. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The album was created at the end of his life and focuses on death, God, and humor.
"The Gypsy's Wife" is a song written by the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen that was first released on his sixth studio album Recent Songs (1979). Live recordings of it appear as the fourth track on Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (2001) and as the thirteenth track on Cohen's Live in London (2009), and the sixth track on ‘Live in ...