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Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan Meaning

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Song Released: 1988


First We Take Manhattan Lyrics

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom

For trying to change the system from within

I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens

I'm guided...

  1. anonymous
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    Jan 6th 2017 !⃝

    Leonard said this was about the mind of an extremist. Prophetically, 9/11 was soon after this released. If you watch some of the interviews with him he will give a great deal of insight into many of this songs.


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