The Future

Cohen Leonard - The Future 
 
Ami 
Give me back my broken night 
Dmi 
my mirrored room, my secret life 
E                                        Ami 
it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture 
 
Give me absolute control 
over every living soul 
And lie beside me, baby, that's an order! 
 
Give me crack and anal sex 
Take the only tree that's left 
and stuff it up the hole in your culture 
 
Give me back the Berlin wall 
give me Stalin and St Paul 
I've seen the future, brother: it is murder. 
 
Dmi                                  Ami 
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions 
         Dmi                              Ami 
Won't be nothing. Nothing you can measure anymore 
Dmi                                              Ami 
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world, has crossed the threshold 
    F                     E           Ami 
and it's overturned the order of the soul 
               Dmi 
When they said REPENT REPENT 
  Ami                                    Dmi 
I wonder what they meant. When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami                                      Dmi 
I wonder what they meant. When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami 
I wonder what they meant 
 
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 
 
Dmi                                  Ami 
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions 
Dmi                                    Ami 
Won't be nothing. Nothing you can measure anymore 
Dmi                                                        Ami 
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world, has crossed the threshold 
    F              E                  Ami 
and it's overturned the order of the soul 
 
Dmi 
When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami                                      Dmi 
I wonder what they meant. When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami                                      Dmi 
I wonder what they meant. When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami 
I wonder what they meant 
 
Ami 
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code 
Dmi 
Your private life will suddenly explode 
Ami 
There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road 
E        Adim        E 
and the white man dancing 
 
 Ami 
You'll see a woman hanging upside down 
 Dmi 
her features covered by her fallen gown 
 Ami 
and all the lousy little poets coming round 
             E               Adim 
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson 
         E           Ami 
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 
 
Dmi                                  Ami 
Things are going to slide, slide in all directions 
Dmi                                    Ami 
Won't be nothing. Nothing you can measure anymore 
Dmi                                                        Ami 
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world, has crossed the threshold 
    F                 E                 Ami 
and it has overturned the order of the soul 
 
               Dmi 
When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami                                       Dmi 
I wonder what they meant. When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami                                      Dmi 
I wonder what they meant. When they said REPENT REPENT 
Ami 
I wonder what they meant 
When they said REPENT REPENT ...