Leonard Cohen - "Going Home" (Stream)

Via the New Yorker:

"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 homeWithout my sorrowGoing homeSometime tomorrowTo where it’s betterThan before
Going homeWithout my burdenGoing homeBehind the curtainGoing homeWithout the costumeThat 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 homeWithout my sorrowGoing homeSometime tomorrowGoing homeTo where it’s betterThan before
Going homeWithout my burdenGoing homeBehind the curtainGoing homeWithout the costumeThat I wore
I love to speak with Leonard
He’s a sportsman and a shepherd
He’s a lazy bastard
Living in a suit

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