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Via The New Yorker

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Going Home​

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by Leonard Cohen January 23, 2012 ​

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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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But he does say what I tell him​

Even though it isn't welcome​

He will never have the freedom​

To refuse​

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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​

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Going home​

Without my sorrow​

Going home​

Sometime tomorrow​

To where it's better​

Than before​

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Going home​

Without my burden​

Going home​

Behind the curtain​

Going home​

Without the costume​

That I wore​

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He wants to write a love song​

An anthem of forgiving​

A manual for living with defeat​

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A cry above the suffering​

A sacrifice recovering​

But that isn't what I want him to complete​

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I want to make him certain​

That he doesn't have a burden​

That he doesn't need a vision​

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That he only has permission​

To do my instant bidding​

That is to SAY what I have told him​

To repeat​

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Going home​

Without my sorrow​

Going home​

Sometime tomorrow​

Going home​

To where it's better​

Than before​

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Going home​

Without my burden​

Going home​

Behind the curtain​

Going home​

Without the costume​

That I wore​

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I love to speak with Leonard​

He's a sportsman and a shepherd​

He's a lazy bastard​

Living in a suit​

Audio: Leonard Cohen sings "Going Home."