They Locked Up a Man (poem) / A Person Who Eats Meat / Intro (Live at the Isle of Wight) lyrics
by 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
It is that...
(Someone shouts from the audience.)
What was that?
(More shouts from the audience.)
They're calling me a fascist pig again
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