There is a War

Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen: New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974)

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There is a	war between the rich and poor a

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War be-tween the man and the	woman.

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There is a	war be-tween the ones who say there is a

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war and the ones who say there	isn't.

Well I live here with a woman and a child,

The situation makes me kind of nervous.

Yes, I rise up from her arms, she says "I guess you call this love";

I call it service. Why don't you come on back to the war, don't be a tourist,

You cannot stand what I've become,

You much prefer the gentleman I was before.

I was so easy to defeat, I was so easy to control,

I didn't even know there was a war.

There is a war between the rich and poor,

A war between the man and the woman.

There is a war between the left and right,

A war between the black and white,

A war between the odd and the even.