Well they already got Manhattan ,actually they control the Congress and Berlin well ; Berlin is Israels’ Milchcow .Maybe LC will be riding a train to Warsaw.

Juxtaposition of Leonard Cohen and Lady Gaga: hyperbole of the absurd.

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I’m coming now, I’m coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I’m guided by a signal in the heavens
I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin
I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I’d really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you’re worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don’t have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don’t like your fashion business mister
And I don’t like these drugs that keep you thin
I don’t like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I’d really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those items that you sent me
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I’m ready
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah remember me, I used to live for music
Remember me, I brought your groceries in
Well it’s Father’s Day and everybody’s wounded
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”

We lost Berlin; apparently, first we take the Prince of Asturias award, and Oviedo “Then we take Manhattan.”

With all due respect…

I think LC is more of an entertainer than a poet.  One would expect that a top literary prize in Spain would go to some one of the league of Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes.

On the other hand, that quality seems to be absent these days.

Who will get it next year?  Lady Gaga?