I've seen the future, brother...

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 

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 ...