la Pulghita |
Pulga is actually my
last name. In the early
years of my life I sadly discovered it had a mean meaning in my mothertongue: simply modify one single letter and I appear
to be Serena Purge. Not bad not bad. Thankfully, in spanish it means something else,
it means just...flea. I said to myself:
"Ok, Serena, flea is better than purge, you can spend your life annoying
other people in a subtle but persistent way, just like fleas do." Accidentally I
pursued that 6-years-old goal and I ended up in being a logorroic,
small, brown-haired girl with the special talent of knowing useless things. A lot of people
told me this could be a full time job, I said who knows. |
Andiamo a casa? Andiamo.
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
Yes, it’s from the new album. //www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/01/leonard-cohens-going-home-new-song.html
Andiamo indeed. Is this gonna be on Old Ideas?