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TheFuture
THE FUTURE
#From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier <cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
#from Columbia Records' release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)
Introduction:
Am / /
Give me back my broken night, my
Dm
mirrored room, my secret life
it's
G6
lonely here, there's no
E7
one left to
Am
torture
Give me absolute control
Dm
over every living soul
And
G6
lie beside me baby, that's an
Am
order!
Give me crack an anal sex,
Dm
take the only tree that's left
and
G6
stuff it up the
E7
hole in your cul
Am
ture
Give me back the Berlin Wall,
Dm
give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've
G6
seen the future,
E7
brother: it is
Am
murder.
Chorus:
Dm
Things are gonna slide (
C
slide) in all directions
Won't be
Dm
nothing (won't be) nothing you can't
C
measure anymore.
The
Dm
blizzard, the blizzard of the
F
world has crossed the threshold
and it has
Fm
overturned the order of the
C
soul
When they
G
said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
I wonder
Am
what they meant
When they
G
said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
I wonder
Am
what they meant
When they
G
said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
I wonder
Am
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 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
Dm
private life will suddenly explode
There'll be
Am
phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
and the white man
F7
dancing
E
You'll see your
Am
woman hanging upside down
her f
Dm
eatures covered by her fallen gown
and all the
Am
lousy little poets coming around
trying to sound like Charlie
F7
Manson
E
and the white man
Am
dancing
Give me back the Berlin Wall,
Dm
give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6
Give me Christ or
E7
give me Hiro
Am
shima
Destroy another fetus now, we
Dm
don't like children anyhow
I've
G6
seen the future,
E7
baby: it is
Am
murder.
#repeat chorus
When they
G
said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
#end on Am
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