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The Future

Leonard Cohen

Ton : AEnglish
142 bpm
Am 
Give me back my broken night, my mDmirrored room, my secret life
it's lG6onely here, there's no onE7e left to torAmture
Give me absolute control oDmver every living soul
And lG6ie beside me baby, that's an orAmder !
Give me crack an anal sex, tDmake the only tree that's left
and sG6tuff it up the hoE7le in your culturAme
Give me back the Berlin Wall, gDmive me Stalin and St. Paul
I've sG6een the future, brE7other : it is muAmrder.
Chorus
ThDmings are gonna slide (sliCde) in all directions
Won't be nothiDmng (won't be) nothing you can't measurCe anymore.
The blizDmzard, the blizzard of the worldF has crossed the threshold
and it has overFmturned the order of the soulC 
When they saidG (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
I wonder whAmat they meant
When they saGid (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
I wonder whAmat they meant
When they saGid (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
I wonder whAmat 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 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.
Chorus
Refrain
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Your pDmrivate life will suddenly explode
There'll be pAmhantoms, there'll be fires on the road
and the white man dF7ancing E 
You'll see your wAmoman hanging upside down
her feDmatures covered by her fallen gown
and all the lAmousy little poets coming around
trying to sound like Charlie MF7anson E 
and the white man dAmancing
Give me back the Berlin Wall, gDmive me Stalin and St. Paul
G6Give me Christ or gE7ive me HiroshAmima
Destroy another fetus now, we dDmon't like children anyhow
I've sG6een the future, baE7by : it is muAmrder.
Chorus
Refrain
When they sGaid (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent) Am 

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  2. v2 — Anonymous, — réparation import auto
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