Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Future , by - Leonard Cohen. Release date: 22.07.2014
Song language: English
The Future |
| 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 |