The Future - Leonard Cohen

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

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 (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (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, and 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

And things are going to slide

Slide in all directions

Won’t be nothing

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 (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

There’ll be the breaking of the ancient Western code

And 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 comin' round

Tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson, oh

And the white man dancin'

Give me back the Berlin wall

Give me Stalin and Saint 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

And things are going to slide

Slide in all directions

Won’t be nothing

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 (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

When they said (they said), oh repent (repent), oh repent

I wonder what they meant

Yeah, when they said (they said) repent (repent), repent

I wonder what they meant

I wonder what they meant