Cohen Leonard The Future Lyrics

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
...