GhayUniform

Cohen explained himself in a backstage interview: "I think it means exactly what it says. It is a terrorist song. I think it's a response to terrorism. There's something about terrorism that I've always admired. The fact that there are no alibis or no compromises. That position is always very attractive. I don't like it when it's manifested on the physical plane – I don't really enjoy the terrorist activities – but Psychic Terrorism. I remember there was a great poem by Irving Layton that I once read, I'll give you a paraphrase of it. It was 'well, you guys blow up an occasional airline and kill a few children here and there', he says. 'But our terrorists, Jesus, Freud, Marx, Einstein. The whole world is still quaking.'"

ardvarcus

Good song. I like the Jennifer Warnes cover version better than the original Cohen version. Cohen couldn't sing for shit.

derram

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A :

Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan (Promo video - 1988) - YouTube

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