I do not know if the world has lied
I have lied
I do not know if the world has
conspired against love
I have conspired against love
The atmosphere of torture is no comfort
I have tortured
Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
Like an empty telephone booth passed at night
and remembered like mirrors in a movie palace
lobby consulted only on the way out
like a nymphomaniac who binds a thousand
into strange brotherhood
I wait
for each one of you to confess
Leonard Cohen in "Flowers For Hitler (1964)"
