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From David, a reader in Oakland:

I hope its not too late to point out the perfect track for Inauguration Day. For so many reasons, it just has to be Leonard Cohens exhausted but hopeful Democracy, recorded 25 years ago [yesterday] and still inspiringand, let us hope, prophetic.

Cohen died just a day before Donald Trump was elected president, so well never know his reaction. But we can still glean wisdom and hope from his lyrics:

Its coming to America first, the cradle of the best and of the worst. Its here they got the range and the machinery for change and its here they got the spiritual thirst. Its here the familys broken and its here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Shelagh Huston absorbed more of the lyrics in the days following Trumps win:

After months of an election campaign that gave us the feel / that this aint exactly real / or its real, but it aint exactly there, and after years of a rising tide of the wars against disorder / the sirens night and day / the fires of the homeless / the ashes of the gay, Leonard Cohen prophesizes: Democracy is coming to the USA. Like so many of us, Cohen cared about the idea of America (I love the country) but was horrified and revolted by whats been happening to it (but I cant stand the scene). [...] At a time when the US is in more danger of foundering than ever before, Cohens words are the perfect anthem for these times: Sail on, sail on / oh mighty ship of State, were dreading this voyage, not knowing if well we make it to the shores of need / past the reefs of greed / through the squalls of hate.

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Track of the Day: 'Democracy' by Leonard Cohen - The Atlantic