Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:28:41 -0400
From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier
THE FUTURE (L. Cohen)
From Columbia Records’ release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)
Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/30/95
URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/
Introduction:
Am / /
Dm
Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life
G6 E7 Am
It’s lonely here, there’s no one left to torture
Dm
Give me absolute control over every living soul
G6 Am
And lie beside me baby, that’s an order!
Dm
Give me crack an anal sex, take the only tree that’s left
G6 E7 Am
And stuff it up the hole in your culture
Dm
Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6 E7 Am
I’ve seen the future, brother: it is murder.
[Chorus:]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won’t be nothing (won’t be) nothing you can’t measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
And it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
