Cohen, Leonard 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 tortire
Give me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me,baby
That´s an order!

Give me crack and a___ s__
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...

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...