The Future
Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen: The Future (1992)
| Am | | Dm |
| - | Give me back my broken night, my | mirrored room, my secret life, |
| G6 | E7 | Am |
| It's | lonely here, there's no | one left to | torture. |
| Dm |
| Give me absolute control | over every living soul |
| G6 | Am |
| And | lie beside me, baby, that's an | order! |
| Dm |
| Give me crack and anal sex, | take the only tree that's left, |
| G6 | E7 | Am |
| stuff it up the | hole in your cul | ture. |
| Dm |
| Give me back the Berlin Wall, | give me Stalin and St. Paul. |
| G6 | E7 | Am |
| I've | seen the future, | brother: it is | murder. |
| Dm | C |
| Things are gonna slide, ( | slide) in all directions, |
| Dm | C |
| Won't be | nothing (won't be) nothing you can't | measure anymore. |
| Dm | F |
| The | blizzard, the blizzard of the | world has crossed the threshold |
| Fm | C |
| and it's | overturned the order of the | soul. |
| G |
| When they | said (they said) Repent (repent) Repent (repent) |
| Am |
| I wonder | what they meant. |
| G |
| When they | said (they said) Repent (repent) Repent (repent) |
| Am |
| I wonder | what they meant. |
| G |
| When they | said (they said) Repent (repent) Repent (repent) |
| Am |
| I wonder | what they meant. |
| You don't know me from the wind, you never will, you never did, | |
| I'm the little jew who wrote the bible. | |
| I've seen the nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all, | |
| But love's the only engine of survival. | |
| Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: | |
| It's over, it ain't going any further. | |
| And now the wheels of heaven stop, you feel the devil's riding crop, | |
| Get ready for the future: it is murder. | |
| Things are gonna slide, (slide) in all directions. | |
| Won't be nothing, (won't be) nothing you can measure anymore. | |
| The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold | |
| And it's overturned the order of the soul. | |
| When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent) | |
| I wonder what they meant. | |
| When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent) | |
| I wonder what they meant. | |
| When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent) | |
| I wonder what they meant. | |
| There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code, | |
| Your private life will suddenly explode. | |
| There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road, | |
| and the white man dancing. | |
| You'll see your woman hanging upside down, | |
| Her features covered by her fallen gown, | |
| And all the lousy little poets coming 'round, | |
| Trying to sound like Charlie Manson - and the white man dancing. | |
| Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul, | |
| Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima. | |
| Destroy another fetus now, we don't like children anyhow. | |
| I've seen the future, baby: it is murder. | |
| Things are gonna slide, (slide) in all directions. | |
| Won't be nothing, (won't be) nothing you can measure anymore. | |
| The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold | |
| And it's overturned the order of the soul. | |
| When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent) | |
| I wonder what they meant. | |
| When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent) | |
| I wonder what they meant. | |
| When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent) | |
| I wonder what they meant. | |
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