Everybody Knows
The bitterly funny opener of I'm Your Man, which went on to close a film.
Leonard Cohen, from I'm Your Man (1988)
- Written by
- Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson
- Released
- 1988
- Length
- 5:36
- Album
- I'm Your Man
Written by Cohen and Sharon Robinson, it opens I'm Your Man, released by Columbia in February 1988. Critics describe it as bitterly pessimistic and yet funny.
Concrete Blonde's 1990 cover reached number 20 on the US Alternative Airplay chart, with a video directed by Jane Simpson, and closes the film Pump Up the Volume (1990). The song was also in Exotica (1994). Don Henley sang it in a duet with Bryan Adams on VH1 in 1996, and Rufus Wainwright recorded it in 2005 and Sigrid in 2017 for Justice League.
Covers and versions
- Concrete Blonde (1990) Reached number 20 on the US Alternative Airplay chart.
- Don Henley (1996) A VH1 duet with Bryan Adams.
- Rufus Wainwright (2005)
- Sigrid (2017) For Justice League.
More songs by Leonard Cohen
Suzanne, So Long, Marianne, Famous Blue Raincoat, Hallelujah, You Want It Darker, Bird on the Wire, Joan of Arc, Who by Fire, Dance Me to the End of Love, First We Take Manhattan, Tower of Song
Where to go next
Reference
- Everybody Knows on SecondHandSongs Cover versions of the song.
Sources
- Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen song), Wikipedia
- I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen album), Wikipedia