Leonard Cohen
The Future

1st Verse
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, 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, nothing you can’t measure anymore
         Dm                           F
	The Blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
             Fm                          C
	And has overturned the order of the soul
               G                              Am
	When they said, REPENT, REPENT, I wonder what they meant
               G                              Am
	When they said, REPENT, REPENT, I wonder what they meant
               G                              Am
	When they said, REPENT, REPENT, I wonder what they meant

2nd Verse
Am                                   Dm
You don’t know me from the wind, you never will, you never did
G6             E7                 Am        
I’m the little Jew, who wrote the bible
                                          Dm
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall, I’ve heard their stories, heard   
       
       them all;
    G6                             Am
But love’s the only engine of survival
                                     Dm
Your servant here, he has been told, to say it clear, to say it cold
    G6            E7         Am
Its over it ain’t going, any further
                                       Dm
And now the wheels of heaven stop, you feel the devil riding crop
    G6            E7            Am
Get ready for the future, it is Murder

	(REPEAT CHORUS)

3rd Verse

There’ll be the breaking of the ancient Western code,
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
Trying to sound like, Charlie Manson
And the White Man Dancing
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.

	(REPEAT CHORUS)