Robert Ariail for November 13, 2016

♫ “Everybody knows the war is over, ♫

♫ Everybody knows the good guys lost……” ♫

Cohen Bids Adieu:

The curtain now is falling, like darkness across the wood.Is that Gabriel who’s calling? I might answer if I could.In this shaky twilight with dawn so drawn awayThis darkness might be heaven or might be hell to pay.Now stands our new CassiusWhere Caesar once had stood,I’m getting out While the getting’s good.

I’ve lit my love’s last candle.I’ve donned the cape and hood.I’ll put to bed the scandal As best I know I should.If morning brings us mourning only night-time ends the play.This darkness might be heaven or might be hell to pay.Now stands there our CroesusWhere the Buddha once had stood.I’m getting outWhile the getting’s good.I’m getting out while the getting’s good.

Everybody got this broken feeling

Like their father or their dog just died

2016. Very much an “Annus Horribilis.”

Shit happens. We all owe a death.

You want it darker.We kill the flame.

He was one of my all time favorites!thanks for this.Sad he is gone.

Now we need one for Leon Russell.

♪ like a bird on a wire…