The Future-Leonard Cohen

[00:09.50]Give me back my broken night [00:12.50]my mirrored room, my secret life [00:15.50]it's lonely here, [00:17.50]there's no one left to torture [00:22.50]Give me absolute control [00:26.50]over every living soul [00:29.50]And lie beside me, baby, [00:32.50]that's an order! [00:34.50] [00:36.50]Give me crack and anal *** [00:39.50]Take the only tree that's left [00:42.50]and stuff it up the hole [00:45.50]in your culture [00:49.50]Give me back the Berlin wall [00:54.50]give me Stalin and St Paul [00:56.50]I've seen the future, brother: [00:59.50]it is murder. [01:01.50] [01:03.50]Things are going to slide, slide in all directions [01:09.50]Won't be nothing [01:11.50]Nothing you can measure anymore [01:16.50]The blizzard, the blizzard of the world [01:21.50]has crossed the threshold [01:24.50]and it has overturned [01:26.50]the order of the soul [01:30.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [01:36.50]I wonder what they meant [01:39.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [01:46.50]I wonder what they meant [01:49.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [01:56.50]I wonder what they meant [01:59.50] [02:04.50]You don't know me from the wind [02:07.50]you never will, you never did [02:10.50]I'm the little jew [02:13.50]who wrote the Bible [02:17.50]I've seen the nations rise and fall [02:20.50]I've heard their stories, heard them all [02:23.50]but love's the only engine of survival [02:31.50]Your servant here, he has been told [02:35.50]to say it clear, to say it cold: [02:38.50]It's over, it ain't going [02:40.50]any further [02:44.50]And now the wheels of heaven stop [02:47.50]you feel the devil's riding crop [02:51.50]Get ready for the future: [02:54.50]it is murder [02:56.50] [02:58.50]Things are going to slide, slide in all directions [03:04.50]Won't be nothing [03:07.50]Nothing you can measure anymore [03:11.50]The blizzard, the blizzard of the world [03:16.50]has crossed the threshold [03:18.50]and it has overturned [03:20.50]the order of the soul [03:23.50] [03:25.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [03:31.50]I wonder what they meant [03:35.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [03:41.50]I wonder what they meant [03:46.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [03:52.50]I wonder what they meant [03:55.50] [03:58.50]There'll be the breaking of the ancient [04:01.50]western code [04:06.50]Your private life will suddenly explode [04:12.50]There'll be phantoms [04:14.50]There'll be fires on the road [04:17.50]and the white man dancing [04:24.50]You'll see a woman [04:27.50]hanging upside down [04:33.50]her features covered by her fallen gown [04:38.50]and all the lousy little poets [04:42.50]coming round [04:44.50]tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson [04:52.50]and the white man dancin' [04:54.50] [05:01.50]Give me back the Berlin wall [05:04.50]Give me Stalin and St Paul [05:07.50]Give me Christ [05:08.50]or give me Hiroshima [05:14.50]Destroy another fetus now [05:17.50]We don't like children anyhow [05:21.50] [05:24.50]it is murder [05:26.50] [05:28.50]Things are going to slide, slide in all directions [05:33.50]Won't be nothing [05:36.50]Nothing you can measure anymore [05:40.50]The blizzard, the blizzard of the world [05:45.50]has crossed the threshold [05:48.50]and it has overturned [05:50.50]the order of the soul [05:54.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [06:01.50]I wonder what they meant [06:05.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [06:11.50]I wonder what they meant [06:14.50]When they said REPENT REPENT [06:20.50]I wonder what they meant [06:23.50] [06:25.50]When they said REPENT REPENT