The Future
	Leonard Cohen, 1992. Scheduled for an upcoming Darby CD.
		notes: Somewhat dark and disturbing; we are amazed by the number of requests we get for this song.
			The Future © 1992, Leonard Cohen Em                                               Am Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life       D                         B7                Em It’s lonely here; there’s no one left to torture                                     Am Give me absolute control over every living soul       D                  B7                  Em And lie beside me, baby; that’s an order                                     Am Give me crack, anal sex, take the only tree that’s left        D                  B7              Em And stuff it up the hole in your culture                                            Am Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul        D                     B7               Em I’ve seen the Future, brother; it is murder Am                        G Things are gonna’ slide in all directions               Am                             G         (F#) Em Won’t be nothin’; nothin’ you can measure anymore       Am                                  G The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold             D                   B7              Em And it’s overturned the order of the soul                  D                                                           Em When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When 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 was 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 cay it cold It’s over; it ain’t goin’ 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 gonna’ slide in all directions Won’t be nothin’; nothin’ you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold And it’s overturned the order of the soul When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant                      Em There’ll be the breaking of the ancient Western code         Am Your private life will suddenly explode                 Em There’ll be phantoms, there’ll be fires on the Moon                             D          B7 And the white man dancin’                   Em You’ll see a woman hanging upside-down       Am Her features covered by her fallen gown                 Em And all the lousy little poets comin’ ‘round                                        D             B7 Tryin’ to sound like Charlie Manson                             Em 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 gonna’ slide in all directions Won’t be nothin’; nothin’ you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold And it’s overturned the order of the soul When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When they said: Repent, repent, repent; I wonder what they meant When they said: Repent, repent, repent;