#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:28:41 -0400 From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier THE FUTURE (L. Cohen) from Columbia Records' release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226) Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/30/95 URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/ Introduction: Am (x02210@1) / / DmGive (xx0231@1)me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life G6 (320000@1) E7 (020130@1) Amit's (x02210@1)lonely here, there's no one left to torture DmGive (xx0231@1)me absolute control over every living soul G6 (320000@1) AmAnd (x02210@1)lie beside me baby, that's an order! DmGive (xx0231@1)me crack an anal sex, take the only tree that's left G6 (320000@1) E7 (020130@1) Amand (x02210@1)stuff it up the hole in your culture DmGive (xx0231@1)me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul G6 (320000@1) E7 (020130@1) AmI've (x02210@1)seen the future, brother: it is murder. [Chorus:] Dm (xx0231@1) C (x32010@1)Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions Dm (xx0231@1) C (x32010@1)Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore. Dm (xx0231@1) F (133211@1)The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold Fm (133111@1) C (x32010@1)and it has overturned the order of the soul G (320003@1)When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent) Am (x02210@1)I wonder what they meant G (320003@1)When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent) Am (x02210@1)I wonder what they meant G (320003@1)When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent) Am (x02210@1)I 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 (xx0231@1)private life will suddenly explode AmThere'll (x02210@1)be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road F7 (131241@1) Eand (022100@1)the white man dancing AmYou'll (x02210@1)see your woman hanging upside down Dmher (xx0231@1)features covered by her fallen gown Amand (x02210@1)all the lousy little poets coming around F7 (131241@1) Etrying (022100@1)to sound like Charlie Manson Amand (x02210@1)the white man dancing DmGive (xx0231@1)me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul G6 (320000@1) E7 (020130@1) AmGive (x02210@1)me Christ or give me Hiroshima DmDestroy (xx0231@1)another fetus now, we don't like children anyhow G6 (320000@1) E7 (020130@1) AmI've (x02210@1)seen the future, baby: it is murder. [repeat chorus] G (320003@1) AmWhen (x02210@1)they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent) [end on Am] Chords: EADGBE Am: X02210 C: X32010 Dm: XX0231 E7: 030100 F: 133211 Fm: 133111 F7: 131211 G: 320003 G6: 320000
