Leonard Cohen Lyrics

Album: More Best Of

The Future Lyrics

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 and 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 going to slide, slide in all directions 

 Won't be nothing 

 Nothing you can 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 REPENT REPENT 

 I wonder what they meant 

 When they said REPENT REPENT 

 I wonder what they meant 

 When they said REPENT REPENT 

 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 going to slide ... 

 

 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 a woman 

 hanging upside down 

 her features covered by her fallen gown 

 and all the lousy little poets 

 coming round 

 tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson 

 and the white man dancin' 

 

 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 going to slide ... 

 

 When they said REPENT REPENT ...