They Locked Up a Man (poem) / A Person Who Eats Meat / Intro Songtext
von Leonard Cohen

As for the political situation

They locked up a man who wanted to rule the world
The fools, they locked up the wrong man

A man who eats meat wants to get his teeth into something
A man who does not eat meat wants to get his teeth into something else
If these thoughts interest you even for a moment, you′re lost

Ey listener-

What was that?


They're calling me a fascist pig again?

(That′ll do)

I wrote this in a peeling room in the Chelsea Hotel
Before I was rich and famous and they gave me well-painted rooms
I was coming off of amphetamine
And I was pursuing a blonde lady whom I met in a Nazi poster
And I was doing many things to attract her attention
I was lighting wax candles in the form of men and women
I was marrying the smoke of two cones of sandalwood