written by Leonard Cohen & Patrick Leonard
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I love to speak with Leonard
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He's a sportsman and a shepherd
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He's a lazy bastard
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living in a suit
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But he does say what I tell him
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Even though it isn't welcome
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He just doesn't have the freedom
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to refuse
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He will speak these words of wisdom
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Like a sage, a man of vision
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Though he knows he's really nothing
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but the brief elaboration of a tube
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Going home without my sorrow
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Going home sometime tomorrow
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Going home to where it's better
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than before
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Going home without my burden
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Going home behind the curtain
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Going home without the costume
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that I wore
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He wants to write a love song
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An anthem of forgiving
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A manual for living
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with defeat
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A cry above the suffering
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A sacrifice recovering
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But that isn't what I need him
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to complete
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I want him to be certain
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That he doesn't have a burden
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That he doesn't need a vision
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That he only has permission
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to do my instant bidding which is to
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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
(Bm) A D Gadd9
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I'm 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 this costume that I wore
(Bm) A D Gadd9
A/c# D/f# G
I love to speak with Leonard
He's a sportsman and a shepherd
He's a lazy bastard living in a suit