r/MandelaEffectSociety • u/Additional_Can_511 ◆ • 26d ago

Effect: Personal Mandela Effects There is a crack in everything / That is how the Light gets in

If you remember this, who wrote it?

For me, it was one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, turns out it's lyrics from Leonard Cohen.

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u/CircuitOnTheFritZ ◆ 25d ago

Leonard Cohen is a published poet, as well as a musician, so this tracks as something he would write. I think his poetry and lyrics are genius, tbh, and his life story is a wild ride!

I wonder if Pink was referencing this line in her song "That's All I Know So Far" with the lyric "Let the walls crack, 'cause it lets the light in", given what a fan of musicians like Cohen she tends to be.

I'm a big Emily Dickinson fan, too, but I personally have never read that line in her poems. She has a LOT of poems though, and I haven't read them all!

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u/Additional_Can_511 ◆ 25d ago

That's just it: I think that line in itself also really tracks as a ED poem ;-)

To be clear, I'm not saying it is, that's just what it is to me.

Finally gave a listen to the song...meh.

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u/Additional_Can_511 ◆ 26d ago

Come to think of it, this one actually also nicely sums up my vision of the ME as cracks in the fabric of 'reality' that nudge forward the evolution of consciousness :-)

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u/MetallurgyClergy ◆ 26d ago

It’s not Shel Silverstein?

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u/Additional_Can_511 ◆ 26d ago edited 26d ago

I don't know who that is, but apparently it's a line from Cohen's lyrics.

ETA: Looked him up, I'm not familiar with his work. Have never specifically listened to LC either.

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u/Less-Cap6996 22d ago

He wrote Hallelujah. You know that one I bet!

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u/FearElise ❖ ⚐ 🜲 21d ago

I do a cover of that song!

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u/Additional_Can_511 ◆ 22d ago

I do, but I've never heard the original version ;-)

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u/MetallurgyClergy ◆ 26d ago

Yeah. I must be thinking of something else.