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En vieillissant, j’ai commencé à comprendre que cette voix était accompagnée d’instructions.
Et les instructions étaient celles-ci… ne jamais se plaindre avec désinvolture.
Et si l’on exprime la grande défaite inévitable qui nous attend tous, cela doit être fait dans les limites strictes qu’imposent la dignité et la beauté.
－Leonard Cohen
终于等到了 Leonard Cohen 的新专集，”Old Ideas”，是他出专集以来的第十九张，也或许是最后一张？新歌新曲，却是老想法，越来越深沉的嗓音，歌词也越来越宿命，在«The Darkness»里他唱道：
I caught the darkness
It was drinking from your cup
I caught the darkness
drinking from your cup
I said is this contagious?
You said “Just drink it up”
I’ve got no future
I know my days are few
The present’s not that pleasant
Just a lot of things to do
I thought the past would last me
But the darkness got that too
I should have seen it coming
It was right behind your eyes
You were young and it was summer
I just had to take the dive
Winning you was easy
But darkness was the prize
I don’t smoke no cigarette
I don’t drink no alcohol
I ain’t had much loving yet
But that’s always been your call
Hey, I don’t miss it baby
I no taste for anything at all
I used to love the rainbow
And I used to love the view
I love the early morning
I pretend that it was new
But I caught the darkness, baby
And I got it worse than you
I caught the darkness
It was drinking from your cup
I caught the darkness
drinking from your cup
I said is this contagious?
You said “Just drink it up”
«Going Home» 的歌词：
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
更象是他在脱离自己，从一个外人的角度来看一个歌手的一生。如果说以往他专集的歌词都象是寻找，观望，叹息，那这张专集里所有的歌都象是 Leonard Cohen 在总结，在探讨，在抽身注视。
刚买了这CD，欣喜的同时也有点悲哀，这个影响和使四代人着迷的诗人歌手是否以这张专集最为一个结束语呢？也想说，尽管他的歌词越来越触动人，越来越精炼，嗓音也更浑厚低沉，但显然时间是残酷的，年龄削弱了声音的力量，流露了苍老的痕迹。但 Leonard Cohen 依然是我心中最有诱惑力的歌者，他仍是所有我喜欢的歌者中的 No1 ！
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