Leonard Cohen RIIP: First We Take Manhattan...

Something has been playing on my mind after my post concerning the recent death of Leonard Cohen's.   The post reflects on the "timeliness" of the title of his novel "Beautiful Losers" as per the Deaths in 2016 site:

•  Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter ("Suzanne", "Hallelujah", "First We Take Manhattan"), poet and novelist (Let Us Compare Mythologies, Beautiful Losers)

And what dawned on me was the song "First We Take Manhattan"... because the NYC Twin Towers were situated in Lower Manhattan!!  Note from the songs wiki page:

• "First We Take Manhattan" is a song written by Leonard Cohen. It was originally recorded by Jennifer Warnes on her 1987 album Famous Blue Raincoat, 

Note the surname "Warnes"!!    Note from the songs wiki page:

Cohen explained himself in a backstage interview:^[1] "I think it means exactly what it says. It is a terrorist song. I think it's a response to terrorism. There's something about terrorism that I've always admired. The fact that there are no alibis or no compromises. That position is always very attractive. I don't like it when it's manifested on the physical plane - I don't really enjoy the terrorist activities – but Psychic Terrorism. I remember there was a great poem by Irving Layton that I once read, I'll give you a paraphrase of it. It was 'well, you guys blow up an occasional airline and kill a few children here and there', he says. 'But our terrorists, Jesus, Freud, Marx, Einstein. The whole world is still quaking.'" 

If I recall correctly, the song's chorus is :

•  First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

It gives me the chills!!  On the Berlin wiki page I find the following:

Governing Mayor	Michael Müller (politician)(SPD)

Michael Müller (born 9 December 1964 in Berlin^[1]) 

As of December 9, there are 22 days remaining in the year.    And now here's the song:

First We Take Manhattan

Leonard Cohen

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 (guided, guided)
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin (guided, guided by)
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons (guided)
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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…