<div dir="ltr"><div>but I just became one.</div><div><br></div><div>This would be great for July 4th...Memorial Day/ Veterans Day...or ANY DAY THAT WE CELEBRATE AMERICA</div><div>Which should be every day. </div><div>The greatest country in the flippin world(no I'm not being sarcastic).</div><div><br></div><div>Written in 1992 it's perfect for today.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(124,115,121);font-family:Lora,serif;font-size:21.6563px;font-style:italic;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font color="#7c7379" face="Lora, serif"><span style="font-size:21.6563px"><i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_P4IEr-yd8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_P4IEr-yd8</a></i></span></font><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font color="#7c7379" face="Lora, serif"><span style="font-size:21.6563px"><i><br></i></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><font color="#7c7379" face="Lora, serif"><span style="font-size:21.6563px"><i>
<div class="gmail-kp-header" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-kp-hc" style="margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;padding-bottom:12px;display:inline-block;width:632px"><div class="gmail-NFQFxe gmail-viOShc gmail-LKPcQc gmail-mod" style="clear:none;padding-top:0px;border-radius:2px"><div class="gmail-LKVBDc gmail-uICYRb" style="padding-left:16px;padding-right:16px;margin-top:0px"><div class="gmail-d1rFIf"><div class="gmail-kno-ecr-pt gmail-kno-fb-ctx" style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);line-height:1.2;overflow:hidden;font-family:arial,sans-serif-light,sans-serif;display:inline;font-size:30px;font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><span>Democracy</span></div><div class="gmail-sthby gmail-kno-fb-ctx" style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:arial,sans-serif;margin:4px 0px;overflow:hidden"><span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1NDCM_enUS702US702&q=Leonard+Cohen&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLQz9U3yElOzgMAJrwcVgwAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjhycas287bAhUM6IMKHQe8C-gQMQgsMAA" style="color:rgb(102,0,153);text-decoration:none">Leonard Cohen</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-SALvLe gmail-farUxc gmail-mJ2Mod" style="border-top:1px solid rgb(235,235,235);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-i4J0ge"><div class="gmail-NFQFxe gmail-siXlze gmail-yp1CPe gmail-mod" style="clear:none;padding-top:0px;border-radius:2px;padding-bottom:16px"><div><div class="gmail-Kvw2ac" style="margin:0px 16px"><div class="gmail-G1VCxe gmail-kno-fb-ctx" style="margin-top:12px"><div style="line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:12px"><span>It's coming through a hole in the air</span><br><span>From those nights in Tiananmen Square</span><br><span>It's coming from the feel</span><br><span>That this ain't exactly real</span><br><span>Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there</span><br><span>From the wars against disorder</span><br><span>From the sirens night and day</span><br><span>From the fires of the homeless</span><br><span>From the ashes of the gay</span><br><span>Democracy is coming to the USA</span><br><span>It's coming through a crack in the wall</span><br><span>On a visionary flood of alcohol</span><br><span>From the staggering account</span><br><span>Of the Sermon on the Mount</span><br><span>Which I don't pretend to understand at all</span><br><span>It's coming from the silence</span><br><span>On the dock of the bay,</span><br><span>From the brave, the bold, the battered</span><br><span>Heart of Chevrolet</span><br><span>Democracy is coming to the USA</span></div></div><div class="gmail-G1VCxe gmail-kno-fb-ctx"><div class="gmail-iw7h9e" style="line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:12px"><span>It's coming from the sorrow in the street</span><br><span>The holy places where the races meet</span><br><span>From the homicidal bitchin'</span><br><span>That goes down in every kitchen</span><br><span>To determine who will serve and who will eat</span><br><span>From the wells of disappointment</span><br><span>Where the women kneel to pray</span><br><span>For the grace of God in the desert here</span><br><span>And the desert far away:</span><br><span>Democracy is coming to the USA</span></div><div class="gmail-xpdxpnd" style="overflow:hidden;max-height:132px;line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:12px"><span>Sail on, sail on</span><br><span>O mighty Ship of State</span><br><span>To the Shores of Need</span><br><span>Past the Reefs of Greed</span><br><span>Through the Squalls of Hate</span><br><span>Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on</span></div><div class="gmail-xpdxpnd" style="overflow:hidden;max-height:220px;line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:12px"><span>It's coming to America first</span><br><span>The cradle of the best and of the worst</span><br><span>It's here they got the range</span><br><span>And the machinery for change</span><br><span>And it's here they got the spiritual thirst</span><br><span>It's here the family's broken</span><br><span>And it's here the lonely say</span><br><span>That the heart has got to open</span><br><span>In a fundamental way</span><br><span>Democracy is coming to the USA</span></div><div class="gmail-xpdxpnd" style="overflow:hidden;max-height:220px;line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:12px"><span>It's coming from the women and the men</span><br><span>O baby, we'll be making love again</span><br><span>We'll be going down so deep</span><br><span>The river's going to weep,</span><br><span>And the mountain's going to shout Amen</span><br><span>It's coming like the tidal flood</span><br><span>Beneath the lunar sway</span><br><span>Imperial, mysterious</span><br><span>In amorous array</span><br><span>Democracy is coming to the USA</span></div><div class="gmail-xpdxpnd" style="overflow:hidden;max-height:22px;line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:12px"><span>Sail on, sail on</span></div><div class="gmail-xpdxpnd" style="overflow:hidden;max-height:220px;line-height:1.24;margin-bottom:0px"><span>I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean</span><br><span>I love the country but I can't stand the scene</span><br><span>And I'm neither left or right</span><br><span>I'm just staying home tonight</span><br><span>Getting lost in that hopeless little screen</span><br><span>But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags</span><br><span>That Time cannot decay</span><br><span>I'm junk but I'm still holding up</span><br><span>This little wild bouquet</span><br><span>Democracy is coming to the USA</span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-xpdxpnd gmail-kno-fb-ctx gmail-R5GB6b gmail-v2b5e gmail-Kvw2ac" style="overflow:hidden;max-height:58px;margin:16px 16px 0px"><div style="margin-top:13px;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(112,117,122)">Songwriters: Leonard Cohen</div><div style="margin-top:13px;font-weight:400;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(112,117,122)">Democracy lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></i></span></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(124,115,121);font-family:Lora,serif;font-size:21.6563px;font-style:italic">This was when the </span><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Berlin_Wall" title="Berlin Wall" class="gmail-int-link" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:0px 0px;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;text-decoration-line:none;outline:0px;color:rgb(21,89,181);font-family:Lora,serif;font-size:21.6563px;font-style:italic">Berlin Wall</a><span style="color:rgb(124,115,121);font-family:Lora,serif;font-size:21.6563px;font-style:italic"> came down and everyone was saying democracy is coming to the east. And I was like that gloomy fellow who always turns up at a party to ruin the orgy or something. And I said, "I don’t think it’s going to happen that way. I don’t think this is such a good idea. I think a lot of suffering will be the consequence of this wall coming down." But then I asked myself, "Where is democracy really coming?" And it was the U.S.A....So while everyone was rejoicing, I thought it wasn’t going to be like that, euphoric, the honeymoon. So it was these world events that occasioned the song. And also the love of America. Because I think the irony of America is transcendent in the song. It’s not an ironic song. It’s a song of deep intimacy and affirmation of the experiment of democracy in this country. That this is really where the experiment is unfolding. This is really where the races confront one another, where the classes, where the genders, where even the sexual orientations confront one another. This is the real laboratory of </span> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><b><font size="4" face="verdana, sans-serif"></font></b></p></div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid rgb(234,234,234);padding:0in 0in 15pt;margin-left:0.25in;margin-right:0in"><font size="4"><b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="garamond, serif">"But if thought corrupts language, </font></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="garamond, serif">language can </font></span></b></font></div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid rgb(234,234,234);padding:0in 0in 15pt;margin-left:0.25in;margin-right:0in"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font face="garamond, serif"><b>also corrupt thought." </b></font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><b> </b> </font><font face="verdana, sans-serif"> </font></span><font color="#333333" face="garamond, serif">George Orwell</font></font></div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid rgb(234,234,234);padding:0in 0in 15pt;margin-left:0.25in;margin-right:0in"><br></div><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid rgb(234,234,234);padding:0in 0in 15pt;margin-left:0.25in;margin-right:0in"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"><font size="4"> </font></span><font size="2"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51)"></font></font><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">
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