Arco de Almedina

Leonard Cohen partiu hoje…

Mas continuará vivo entre nós, no legado que nos deixou: a sua arte, a sua voz inconfundível, a sua música, os seus poemas, o exemplo de humanidade que sempre modelou a sua vida.

Recordar-te-ei na canção com a qual tanto te celebrei «Bird on the Wire», no tempo em que cantava para as estrelas e para os gatos, em cima de um telhado, em noites de Lua Cheia, na minha ânsia de liberdade e de alcançar o infinito nas asas dos pássaros…

Tal como tu, também tentei ser livre à minha maneira…

E fui, sou e serei sempre…tal como tu me ensinaste…

Foste um dos músicos que mais celebrei… cantando…

Até sempre… Leonard…

Isabel A. Ferreira

Like a bird on the wire,

Like a drunk in some old midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free.

Like a worm on a hook,

Like a monk bending over the book

It was the shape, the shape of our love twisted me

If I, if I have been unkind,

I hope that you can just let it all go right on by

If I, if I have been untrue

It's just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too

If I, if I have been unkind,

I hope that you can just let it all go right on by

If I, if I have been untrue

I hope that you know by now it was never to you

Like a little baby stillborn

Like a beast with his horn

I have torn everyone who reached out for me

But I swear, I swear by this song

I swear by all that I have done wrong

I will make it all up to thee

I saw a beggar he was leaning on his wooden crutch,

he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."

And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,

She cried to me, "Hey, why not ask a little bit more?"

Oh like a bird on the wire,

like a drunk in some old midnight choir

I have tried in my way to be free