The Future
Leonard Cohen
Key Am (Gm in video)
Am = 2000, Dm = 2210, G6 = 0202, E7 = 1202
C = 0003, F = 2010, Fm = 1013,
Verse 1
Am Give me back my broken night, my Dm mirrored room, my secret life
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it's G6 lonely here, there's no E7 one left to Am torture
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Give me absolute control Dm over every living soul
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And G6 lie beside me baby, that's an Am order!
Give me crack an anal sex, Dm take the only tree that's left
and G6 stuff it up the E7 hole in your Am culture
Give me back the Berlin Wall, Dm give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've G6 seen the future, E7 brother: it is Am murder.
Chorus
Dm Things are gonna sli-ii-C-de in all directions
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Won't be Dm nothing (won't be) nothing you can't C measure anymore.
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When the Dm blizzard of the world has crossed the F threshold
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and it has overturned the Fm order of the C soul
3m3m…..3m
When they G said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
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I wonder Am what they meant {x3}
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Verse 2
Am You don't know me from the wind, you Dm never will, you never did
G6 I'm the little jew who wrote the Am bible
I've seen nations rise and fall, I've Dm heard their stories, heard them all
but G6 love's the only engibe of sur-Am-vival
Your Am servant here he has been told to Dm say it clear to say it cold:
It's G6 over, it ain't going any Am further
And now the wheels of heaven stop, you Dm feel the devil's riding crop
Get G6 ready for the future: it is Am murder.
Chorus
Bridge
Am There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
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Your Dm private life will suddenly explode
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There'll be Am phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
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and the E white man dancing
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You'll see your Am woman hanging upside down
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her Dm features covered by her fallen gown
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and all the Am lousy little poets coming around
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trying to sound like Charlie E Manson
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and the white man Am dancing
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Verse 4
Am Give me back the Berlin Wall, Dm give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6 Give me Christ or E7 give me Hiro-Am-shima
Destroy another fetus now, we Dm don't like children anyhow
I've G6 seen the future, E7 baby: it is Am murder.
Chorus