PM's speech on Independence Day and Leonard Cohen

Last evening I had the occasion to listen to some old numbers from the 70s and 80s at a friend's place. He had the lyrics of the songs rolling on his large TV screen for good measure. Some time late into the music session he played this wonderful number called Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that 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

For some reason, however, I could only think of the Prime Minister's soppy speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort in the morning. Everybody knows.

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