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The lyrics of "Democracy" discuss the failings and the promise of democracy in the United States of America. [2] American Songwriter contrasted "Democracy" with "Born in the USA", writing that Cohen uses a similar musical style to express "clear-eyed optimism" about the country's future, despite his description of the US as "the cradle of the best and the worst". [3]
Zorán Sztevanovity covered the song in 1991 with Cohen's original music but with different lyrics in Hungarian language written by his brother Dusán. The title of the song is "Volt egy tánc" ("There Was a Dance"). Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick covered the song in 1996 with Cohen's music and Lorca's original verse on the album Omega.
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. [1]
The genesis of "Tower of Song" is described in Ira Nadel's 1996 Cohen memoir Various Positions: "Tower of Song" is the keynote work of I'm Your Man. With it, Cohen wanted to "make a definitive statement about the heroic enterprise of the craft" of songwriting. In the early eighties, he called the work "Raise My Voice in Song."
A music video was directed by Jane Simpson and produced by Silvey + Co. [7] Don Henley included a cover on his Greatest hits album Actual Miles. On a 1996 VH-1 concert he performed the song as a duet with Bryan Adams. (1995) Rufus Wainwright, in Lian Lunson's documentary film Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005).
At the 2017 Tower of Song: A Memorial Tribute to Leonard Cohen concert, "Democracy" was performed by Wesley Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites of the Lumineers, and "The Future" was performed by Elvis Costello. [7] The Lumineers would go on to include an official cover of "Democracy" as a bonus track for their third studio album, III, in 2019.
The music video for Warnes' version of "First We Take Manhattan" was directed by Paula Walker. Filmed in New York City, the video features Stevie Ray Vaughan playing his weathered "Number One" guitar (with its distinctive "SRV" logo) on the Brooklyn Bridge. Cohen also appears with Warnes in the video.
Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985).It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as ...