Leonard Cohen • Democracy • 1992

It's coming to America first

The cradle of the best and of the worst

It's here they got the range

And the machinery for change

And it's here they got the spiritual thirst

It's here the family's broken

And it's here the lonely say

That the heart has got to open

In a fundamental way

Democracy is coming to the USA

It's coming from the women and the men

Oh baby, we'll be making love again

We'll be going down so deep

The river's going to weep

And the mountain's going to shout, "Amen"

It's coming like the tidal flood

Beneath the lunar sway

Imperial, mysterious

In amorous array

Democracy is coming to the USA