LEONARD COHEN - The Future lyrics

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Give me back my broken night<br>My secret room, my secret life<br>It's lonely here<br>There's no one left to torture<br>Give me absolute control<br>Over every living soul<br>And lie beside me, baby<br>That's an order!<br><br>Give me crack and anal sex<br>Take the only tree that's left<br>And stuff it up the hole<br>In your culture<br>Give back the berlin wall<br>Give me stalin and st. paul<br>I've seen the future, brother<br>It is murder<br><br>Chorus<br>Things are going to slide in all directions<br>Won't be nothing<br>Nothing you can measure anymore<br>The blizzard of the world<br>Has crossed the threshold<br>And it has overturned<br>The order of the soul<br>When they said repent<br>I wonder what they meant<br>When they said repent<br>I wonder what they meant<br>When they said repent<br>I wonder what they meant<br><br>You don't know me from the wind<br>You never will, you never did<br>I'm the little jew<br>Who wrote the bible<br>I've seen nations rise and fall<br>I've heard their stories, heard them all<br>But love's the only engine of survival<br>Your servant here, he has been told<br>To say it clear, to say it cold<br>It's over, it ain't going<br>Any further<br>And now the wheels of heaven stop<br>You feel the devil's riding crop<br>Get ready for the future<br>It is murder<br><br>Chorus<br><br>There'll be the breaking of the ancient<br>Western code<br>Your private life will suddenly explode<br>There'll be phantoms<br>There'll be fires in the road<br>And the white man dancing<br>You'll see the woman<br>Hanging upside down<br>Her features covered by her fallen gown<br>And all the lousy little poets<br>Coming round<br>Trying to sound like charlie manson<br><br>Give me back the berlin wall<br>Give me stalin and st. paul<br>Give me christ<br>Or give me hiroshima<br>Destroy another fetus now<br>We don't like children anyhow<br>I've seen the future, baby<br>It is murder<br><br>Chorus