Текст песни Cohen, Leonard - The Future

THE FUTURE (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Records' release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)

Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/30/95

URL:  http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/

duction:

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Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life

it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture

Give me absolute control over every living soul

And lie beside me baby, that's an order!

Give me crack an anal sex, take the only tree that's left

and stuff it up the hole in your culture

Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul

I've seen the future, brother:  it is murder.

	Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions

	Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.

	The blizzard, the blizzard  of the world has crossed the threshold

	and it has 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

[second verse:  (same chords as first)]

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 nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engibe 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.

[repeat chorus]

[third verse:]

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 around

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.

[repeat chorus]

When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)

[end on ]

Chords:

     EADGBE
:  X02210
:   X32010
:  XX0231
:  030100
:   133211
:  133111
:  131211
:   320003
:  320000