Lyrics The Future (Live).lrc Leonard Cohen
[id: ouvblsbb]
[ar: Leonard Cohen]
[al: Back in the Motherland (Live)]
[ti: The Future (Live)]
[length: 06:54]
[00:15.39]Give me back my broken night
[00:18.50]My mirrored room, my secret life
[00:21.72]It’s lonely here
[00:24.22]There’s no one left to torture
[00:28.92]Give me absolute control
[00:32.11]Over every living soul
[00:35.19]And lie beside me, baby
[00:38.26]That’s an order
[00:42.27]Give me speed and careless sex
[00:45.54]Take the only tree that’s left
[00:48.41]And stuff it up the hole
[00:51.77]In your culture
[00:55.71]Give me back the Berlin wall
[00:58.92]Give me Stalin and St. Paul
[01:02.04]I’ve seen the future, brother
[01:05.25]It is murder
[01:09.02]Things are going to slide (slide in all directions)
[01:15.16]Won’t be nothing, won’t be nothing
[01:18.39]You can measure anymore
[01:22.03]The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
[01:26.57]Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned
[01:30.76]The order of the soul
[01:36.79]When they said repent, repent
[01:43.42]I wonder what they meant
[01:46.97]When they said repent, repent
[01:53.18]I wonder what they meant
[01:55.25]When they said repent, repent
[02:00.70]
[02:09.57]You don’t know me from the wind
[02:12.60]You never will, you never did
[02:16.38]I’m the little Jew
[02:18.83]Who wrote the Bible
[02:22.90]I’ve seen the nations rise and fall
[02:26.17]I’ve heard their stories, heard them all
[02:29.66]But love’s the only engine of survival
[02:36.03]Your servant here, he has been told
[02:40.00]To say it clear, to say it cold
[02:43.26]It’s over, it ain’t going any further
[02:49.71]And now the wheels of heaven stop
[02:53.17]You feel the devil’s riding crop
[02:56.62]Get ready for the future
[02:59.76]It is murder
[03:03.78]Things are going to slide (slide in all directions)
[03:09.70]Won’t be nothing, won’t ne nothing
[03:13.18]You can measure anymore
[03:16.91]The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
[03:21.24]Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned
[03:25.01]The order of the soul
[03:30.01]When they said repent, repent
[03:36.18]I wonder what they meant
[03:40.00]When they said repent, repent
[03:46.16]I wonder what they meant
[03:50.36]When they said repent, repent
[03:56.65]
[04:03.35]There’ll be the breaking of the ancient western code
[04:10.15]I mean, your private life will suddenly explode
[04:16.88]And there’ll be phantoms
[04:19.22]There’ll be fires on the road
[04:23.62]And the white man dancing
[04:27.39]
[04:30.33]You’ll see a woman hanging upside down
[04:37.89]Her features covered by her fallen gown
[04:43.63]And all the lousy little poets taking round
[04:49.00]Tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson
[04:54.12]
[04:57.13]And the white man dancin’
[05:01.59]
[05:08.54]Give me back the Berlin wall
[05:12.19]Give me Stalin and St. Paul
[05:15.18]Give me love or give me Hiroshima
[05:21.86]Destroy another fetus now
[05:25.29]We don’t like children anyhow
[05:28.74]I’ve seen the future, baby
[05:31.98]It is murder
[05:35.66]Things are going to slide (slide in all directions)
[05:41.45]Won’t be nothing, won’t be nothing
[05:44.74]You can measure anymore
[05:48.76]The blizzard, blizzard of the world
[05:53.15]Has crossed the threshold and it has overturned
[05:57.10]The order of the soul
[06:01.97]When they said repent, repent
[06:08.17]I wonder what they meant
[06:11.81]When they said repent, repent
[06:18.39]I wonder what they meant
[06:21.96]When they said repent, repent
[06:28.42]I wonder what they meant
[06:32.04]When they said repent, repent (repent)
[06:42.09]Year of Release: 2009