The Future

Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen: The Future (1992)

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Give me back my broken night, my	mirrored room, my secret life,

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It's	lonely here, there's no	one left to	torture.

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Give me absolute control	over every living soul

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And	lie beside me, baby, that's an	order!

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Give me crack and anal sex,	take the only tree that's left,

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	stuff it up the	hole in your cul	ture.

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Give me back the Berlin Wall,	give me Stalin and St. Paul.

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I've	seen the future,	brother: it is	murder.

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.

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.

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	There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code, Your	private life will suddenly explode.

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There'll be	phantoms, there'll be fires on the road, And the white man	dancing.

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You'll see your	woman hanging upside down, her	features covered by her fallen gown.

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and all the	lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charlie	Manson

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And the white man	dancing.

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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.