Lo nuevo de Leonard Cohen

Casi ocho años tuvieron que esperar los fanáticos del cantautor canadiense Leonard Cohen para volver a escuchar nuevas canciones de este ya legendario crooner. Finalmente, están saliendo a la luz algunos temas de Old Ideas, el nuevo disco de Cohen, que será lanzado el 31 de enero en el hemisferio Norte.

La revista The New Yorker publicó en su sección de poesía la letra de una de las 10 canciones que integran Old Ideas. Se trata de Going Home (Volviendo a casa), una emotiva canción de despedida en la que el viejo Leonard habla de sí mismo en tercera persona para describirse como "un deportista y un pastor, un bastardo perezoso que vive de traje".

Aquí podés leer en inglés la letra de la canción. Para escucharla, hace click aquí para ir al sitio de The New Yorker.

Going home

I love to speak with LeonardHe's a sportsman and a shepherdHe's a lazy bastardLiving in a suit But he does say what I tell himEven though it isn't welcomeHe will never have the freedomTo refuse He will speak these words of wisdomLike a sage, a man of visionThough he knows he's really nothingBut 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 songAn anthem of forgivingA manual for living with defeat A cry above the sufferingA sacrifice recoveringBut that isn't what I want him to complete I want to make him certainThat he doesn't have a burdenThat he doesn't need a vision That he only has permissionTo do my instant biddingThat is to SAY what I have told himTo 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 LeonardHe's a sportsman and a shepherdHe's a lazy bastardLiving in a suit