Independence Day Wishes

[Dottore]

I was driving home from my local bar in the Porsche with the top down the other night, when this song came on the radio. It was a perfect night here in the mountains, and I thought I should share the magic of these lyrics with you. (I tried to post this yesterday but couldn't upload.)

The lyrics were penned some time ago, but are eerily appropriate for the time in which we find ourselves.

It's from Leonard Cohen's "Dear Heather" album, and I thought it might make a nice Independence Day anthem for all you fine Americans on PPOT.


Villanelle For Our Time

From bitter searching of the heart,
Quickened with passion and with pain
We rise to play a greater part.
This is the faith from which we start:
Men shall know commonwealth again
From bitter searching of the heart.
We loved the easy and the smart,
But now, with keener hand and brain,
We rise to play a greater part.
The lesser loyalties depart,
And neither race nor creed remain
From bitter searching of the heart.
Not steering by the venal chart
That tricked the mass for private gain,
We rise to play a greater part.
Reshaping narrow law and art
Whose symbols are the millions slain,
From bitter searching of the heart
We rise to play a greater part.

[Dottore]

And here is the audio version....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SscqkUf6vE