The future Leonard Cohen
Lyrics and guitar chords
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Am / /
[Chorus:]
[second verse: (same chords as first)]
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 nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engibe of survival
Your servant here he 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.
[repeat chorus]
[third verse:]
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
[repeat chorus]
[end on Am]
Chords:
DmGive me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret lifeG6it&E7#39Am;s lonely here, there's no one left to tortureDmGive me absolute control over every living soulG6AndAm lie beside me baby, that's an order!DmGive me crack an anal sex, take the only tree that's leftG6andE7 stAmuff it up the hole in your cultureDmGive me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. PaulG6I&#E739;Amve seen the future, brother: it is murder.[Chorus:]
DmThiCngs are gonna slide (slide) in all directionsDmWonC't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.DmTheF blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the thresholdFmandC it has overturned the order of the soulGWhen they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)AmI wonder what they meantGWhen they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)AmI wonder what they meantGWhen they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)AmI wonder what they meant[second verse: (same chords as first)]
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 nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engibe of survival
Your servant here he 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.
[repeat chorus]
[third verse:]
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
DmYour private life will suddenly explodeAmThere'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the roadF7andE the white man dancingAmYou'll see your woman hanging upside downDmher features covered by her fallen gownAmand all the lousy little poets coming aroundF7tryEing to sound like Charlie MansonAmand the white man dancingDmGive me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. PaulG6GivE7e mAme Christ or give me HiroshimaDmDestroy another fetus now, we don't like children anyhowG6I&#E739;Amve seen the future, baby: it is murder.[repeat chorus]
GWhAmen they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)[end on Am]
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