text: Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor: Cohen's Lyric
  Posted by TS at 7:08 PM
  Similarly, that's my favorite verse of the song, too. Though my interpretation is more self-centered and personal, I guess: I see us all as muddling through the best we can, and none of us can do much. And the "all went wrong" - since it's a fallen world, even our best efforts may fail or come to naught.
  But I love the - I would almost say, defiance (against evil, against giving up, against the fallenness of the world) - in the last two lines. Because, yes, I am still going to find a way to praise even if all my efforts in the worldly plane fell apart.