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Jul 03, 2025 01:56pm

Can You Take The Heat.. Round 1<img src="https://singsnap-cdn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/message-board/threads/AGT4/e43fa87bd4_8G97_media.gif"><img src="https://www.lyricinterpretations.com/imgthumbs/songthmb_45048_100.jpg" alt="Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows Lyrics Meaning"> "Everybody Knows" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Leonard Cohen</a> and collaborator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Robinson_(songwriter)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Sharon Robinson</a>. It has often been covered and used in soundtracks.Song[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song)&action=edit&section=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">edit</a>]"Everybody Knows" was first released on Cohen's album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Your_Man_(Leonard_Cohen_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">I'm Your Man</a>, February 1988. Five minutes, 37 seconds long, "Everybody Knows" is known for its somber tone and repetition of the title at the beginning of most lines. Featuring phrases such as "Everybody knows that the dice are loaded" and "Everybody knows that the good guys lost", "Everybody Knows" has been variously described by critics as "bitterly pessimistic" yet funny, or, more strongly, a "bleak prophecy about the end of the world as we know it".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song)#cite_note-NYT-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[1]</a> The lyrics include references to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">AIDS</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song)#cite_note-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[2]</a> social problems,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[3]</a> and relationships and religion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song)#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">[4]</a>Soundtracks[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everybody_Knows_(Leonard_Cohen_song)&action=edit&section=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">edit</a>]"Everybody Knows" has been widely used in television and film. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Moyle" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Allan Moyle</a>'s 1990 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_Up_the_Volume_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Pump Up the Volume</a> features the song prominently. A favorite of protagonist Mark Hunter (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Slater" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Christian Slater</a>, as the operator of an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">FM</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">pirate radio</a> station), Cohen's song is played from an on-screen phonograph several times during Mark's clandestine broadcasts. A cover by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Blonde" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Concrete Blonde</a> is used at the film's end, and it is this cover version that made it onto the film's soundtrack album rather than Cohen's version.Cohen's original version was also featured prominently in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_Egoyan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Atom Egoyan</a>'s 1994 film <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotica_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Exotica</a>, as the theme music of exotic dancer Christina (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Kirshner" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Mia Kirshner</a>) when she performs at the club of the film's title. The soundtrack album for Exotica, featuring music composed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychael_Danna" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">Mychael Danna</a>, does not include Cohen's recording of this song, either."Everybody Knows" was also used in an August 2008 anti-smoking advertisement commissioned by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">New South </a> <img src="https://media.wwbw.com/is/image/MMGS7/Leonard-Cohen-Everybody-Knows/J28348000000000-00-1400x1400.jpg" alt="Backbeat Books Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows - Woodwind & Brasswind">