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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:28:41 -0400 From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier <cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca> THE FUTURE (L. Cohen) from Columbia Records' release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226) Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/30/95 <cjboutil@cgl.uwaterloo.ca> URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/ Introduction: Am / /
Give me back my broken night, my Dmmirrored room, my secret life it's G6lonely here, there's no E7one left to Amtorture
Give me absolute control Dmover every living soul And G6lie beside me baby, that's an Amorder!
Give me crack an anal sex, Dmtake the only tree that's left and G6stuff it up the E7hole in your culAmture
Give me back the Berlin Wall, Dmgive me Stalin and St. Paul I've G6seen the future, E7brother: it is Ammurder.
[Chorus:] Dm C Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothingDm (won't be) nothing you can't measureC anymore. The blizzarDmd, the blizzard of the world hFas crossed the threshold
and it has overturFmned the order of the soul C When they said (tGhey 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 I wonder what they meant [second verse: (same chords as first)] 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 nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all but love's the only engibe 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. [repeat chorus] [third verse:] There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Your Dmprivate life will suddenly explode There'll be Amphantoms, there'll be fires on the road
and the white man F7dancing E You'll see your Amwoman hanging upside down
her fDmeatures covered by her fallen gown and all the Amlousy little poets coming around
trying to sound like Charlie F7Manson E and the white man Amdancing
Give me back the Berlin Wall, Dmgive me Stalin and St. Paul G6Give me Christ or E7give me HiroAmshima
Destroy another fetus now, we Dmdon't like children anyhow I've G6seen the future, E7baby: it is Ammurder.
[repeat chorus]
When they Gsaid (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent) Am [end on Am]
Chords: EADGBE Am: X02210 C: X32010 Dm: XX0231 E7: 030100 F: 133211 Fm: 133111 F7: 131211 G: 320003 G6: 320000