# CCCXCIV - He's back!

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[Passeio do Campo Alegre, Agosto'10]

A fotografia regista um pormenor do trabalho do escultor Henrique Araújo Moreira, o Monumento a Raul Brandão no Jardim do Passeio Alegre. O olhar do pescador, toda aquela expressão impressa na pedra, faz a ligação com a canção de hoje - The Partisan do, e pelo, graaaaaandeeeeeeeee Leonard Cohen.

O canadiano está em digressão mundial - passa por Lisboa em Setembro - e tem um novo disco (Songs from the road). Brilhante. O que se perde (ou poupa?) na voz do cantor ganha-se na riqueza dos instrumentais - e as canções eternas do Cohen vestem uma roupagem algo jazzísticas simplesmente brutal.

The partisan
Leonard Cohen

When they poured across the border
I was cautioned to surrender,
this I could not do;
I took my gun and vanished.

I have changed my name so often,
I've lost my wife and children
but I have many friends,
and some of them are with me.


An old woman gave us shelter,
kept us hidden in the garret,
then the soldiers came;
she died without a whisper.

There were three of us this morning
I'm the only one this evening
but I must go on;
the frontiers are my prison.

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.

Les Allemands étaient chez moi,
ils me disent, "résigne toi,"
mais je n'ai pas peur;
j'ai repris mon arme.
J'ai changé cent fois de nom,
j'ai perdu femme et enfants
mais j'ai tant d'amis;
j'ai la France entière.
Un vieil homme dans un grenier
pour la nuit nous a caché,
les Allemands l'ont pris;
il est mort sans surprise.

[The Germans were at my home
They said, "Surrender yourself"
But I am not afraid
I have retaken my weapon
I have changed names a hundred times
I have lost wife and children
But I have so many friends
I have all of France
An old man, in an attic
Hid us for the night
The Germans captured him
He died without surprise.]

Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows.