Playlist: Leonard Cohen - The Future

Give me back my broken nightMy mirrored room, my secret lifeIt's lonely hereThere's no one left to torture
Give me absolute controlOver every living soulAnd lie beside me, babyThat's an order
Give me crack and anal sexTake the only tree that's leftAnd stuff it up the holeIn your culture
Give me back the Berlin wallGive me Stalin and St. PaulI've seen the future, brotherIt is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directionsWon't be nothingNothing you can measure anymoreThe blizzard, the blizzard of the worldHas crossed the threshold and it has overturnedThe order of the soul
When they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repentI wonder what they meant
You don't know me from the windYou never will, you never didI'm the little JewWho wrote the Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fallI've heard their stories, heard them allBut love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been toldTo say it clear, to say it coldIt's over, it ain't goingAny further
And now the wheels of heaven stopYou feel the devil's riding cropGet ready for the futureIt is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directionsWon't be nothingNothing you can measure anymoreThe blizzard, the blizzard of the worldHas crossed the threshold and it has overturnedThe order of the soul
When they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repentI wonder what they meant
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western codeYour private life will suddenly explodeThere'll be phantomsThere'll be fires on the roadAnd the white man dancing
You'll see a woman hanging upside downHer features covered by her fallen gownAnd all the lousy little poets coming roundTryin' to sound like Charlie MansonAnd the white man dancin'
Give me back the Berlin wallGive me Stalin and St. PaulGive me ChristOr give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus nowWe don't like children anyhowI've seen the future, babyIt is murder
Things are going to slide, slide in all directionsWon't be nothingNothing you can measure anymoreThe blizzard, the blizzard of the worldHas crossed the threshold and it has overturnedThe order of the soul
When they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repentI wonder what they meantWhen they said repent repent

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