Interpret:

Leonard Cohen

Album:

Old Ideas

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 doesn't 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 
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


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 need him to complete


I want him to be 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 
Which 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...