Everybody knows the anti-smoking advertisement that features Leonard Cohen singing and which uses the theme "everybody knows smoking causes these diseases ... yet you still do it". Everybody knows that the Leonard Cohen song so used is called…
Everybody Knows. Or do they?
It’s a great song with powerful mixed images, ordinary things expressed and looked at in different ways (“Everybody knows that you've been faithful / Ah give or take a night or two”).
I have previously noted that the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen can be read and recited as poetry. The same holds true of the lyrics of Billy Joel and Tom Wait.
Everybody Kows is no exception, here is some info on the song:
