Nueva canción de Leonard Cohen: 'Going home'

Después de presentarnos Show me the place y Darkness, Leonard Cohen ha adelantado Going home, otro tema de su inminente nuevo álbum, 'Old ideas'. Como ya sabéis, será el primer disco de Leonard Cohen desde que publicara 'Dear Heather' en 2004.

Tenéis la canción en el New Yorker, junto a la letra completa, que fue publicada en forma de poema en el periódico, y que os copiamos al final del artículo. Nos encanta el primer párrafo, por cierto.

'Old ideas' saldrá a la venta el próximo 31 de enero.

Going Home

I love to speak with Leonard
He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
He’s a lazy bastard
Living in a suit

But he does say what I tell him
Even though it isn’t welcome
He will never have the freedom
To refuse

He will speak these words of wisdom
Like a sage, a man of vision
Though he knows he’s really nothing
But the brief elaboration of a tube

Going home
Without my sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
To where it’s better
Than before

Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without the costume
That I wore

He wants to write a love song
An anthem of forgiving
A manual for living with defeat

A cry above the suffering
A sacrifice recovering
But that isn’t what I want him to complete

I want to make him certain
That he doesn’t have a burden
That he doesn’t need a vision

That he only has permission
To do my instant bidding
That is to SAY what I have told him
To repeat

Going home
Without my sorrow
Going home
Sometime tomorrow
Going home
To where it’s better
Than before

Going home
Without my burden
Going home
Behind the curtain
Going home
Without the costume
That I wore

I love to speak with Leonard
He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
He’s a lazy bastard
Living in a suit