"Anthem"

The birds they sang at the break of day/Start again I heard them say/ Don't dwell on what has passed away/ or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again/ The holy dove She will be caught again/ bought and sold and bought again/ the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring./ Forget your perfect offering./There is a crack in everything./ That's how the light gets in.

We asked for signs/ the signs were sent: the birth betrayed the marriage spent/ Yeah the widowhood of every government/ signs for all to see./ I can't run no more with that lawless crowd/ while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud./ But they've summoned, they've summoned up a thundercloud/ and they're going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring./ Forget your perfect offering./There is a crack in everything./ That's how the light gets in.

You can add up the parts but you won't have the sum./ You can strike up the march, there is no drum./ Every heart, every heart to love will come/ but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring./ Forget your perfect offering./ There is a crack, a crack in everything./ That's how the light gets in.

Ring the bells that still can ring./ Forget your perfect offering./ There is a crack, a crack in everything./ That's how the light gets in./ That's how the light gets in.

That's how the light gets in. --L. Cohen