The Future - Leonard Cohen

                                                                

                                                              
                                                          

Give me absolute control 
over every living soul 
And lie beside me, baby, 
that's an order! 

Give me crack and anal sex 
Take the only tree that's left 
and stuff it up the hole 
in your culture 

Give me back the Berlin wall  

give me Stalin and St Paul 
I've seen the future, brother: 
it is murder. 

Things are going to slide in all directions 
Nothing will be measured anymore 
The blizzard of the world 
has crossed the threshold 
and overturned 
the order of the soul 

When they said Repent 
I wonder what they meant 


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 the nations rise and fall 
I've heard their stories, heard them all 
but love's the only engine of survival 

Now your servant 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 

Things are going to slide in all directions 
Nothing will be measured anymore 
The blizzard of the world 
has crossed the threshold 
and overturned 
the order of the soul 

When they said Repent 
I wonder what they meant 

There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code 
I mean your private life will suddenly explode

 There'll be phantoms 
There'll be fires on the road 
and the white man dancing 

You'll see your woman hanging upside down 
her features covered by her fallen gown 
and all the lousy little poets coming round 
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson 


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