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The Future easy guitar chords by
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

1992Pop
5.0 (2)
Intro 1
Am
Am
Am
Am

Verse 1
Am

Give me back my broken night
Dm

My mirrored room, my secret life
E

It's lonely here
Am

There's no one left to torture

Give me absolute control
Dm

Over every living soul
E

And lie beside me, baby
Am

That's an order
Verse 2
Am

Give me crack and anal sex
Dm

Take the only tree that's left
E

And stuff it up the hole
Am

In your culture

Give me back the Berlin wall
Dm

Give me Stalin and St. Paul
E

I've seen the future, brother
Am

It is murder
Pre-chorus 1
Dm

Things are going to slide,
C

slide in all directions
Dm

Won't be nothing
C

Nothing you can measure anymore
Dm
F

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold
Fm

And it's overturned
C

The order of the soul
Chorus 1
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
Verse 3
Am

You don't know me from the wind
Dm

You never will, you never did
E

I'm the little Jew
Am

Who wrote the Bible

I've seen the nations rise and fall
Dm

I've heard their stories, heard them all
E
Am

But love's the only engine of survival
Verse 4
Am

Your servant here, he has been told
Dm

To say it clear, to say it cold
E

It's over, it ain't going
Am

Any further (do, do, do)

And now the wheels of heaven stop
Dm

You feel the devil's riding crop
E

Get ready for the future
Am

It is murder (do, do, do)
Pre-chorus 2
Dm

Things are going to slide,
C

slide in all directions
Dm

Won't be nothing
C

Nothing you can measure anymore
Dm
F

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold
Fm

And it's overturned
C

The order of the soul
Chorus 2
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
Bridge 1
Am

There'll be the breaking

of the ancient western code
Dm

Your private life will

suddenly explode (ooh, ooh)
Am

There'll be phantoms

There'll be fires on the road
F
E

And the white man dancing
Am

You'll see a woman

Hanging upside down (ooh, ooh)
Dm

Her features covered

by her fallen gown (ooh, ooh)
Am

And all the lousy little poets coming around
F
E

Tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
Am

Yeah, the white man dancin'
Verse 5
Am

Give me back the Berlin wall
Dm

Give me Stalin and St. Paul
E

Give me Christ
Am

or give me Hiroshima (do, do, do)

Destroy another fetus now
Dm

We don't like children anyhow
E

I've seen the future, baby
Am

It is murder (do, do, do)
Pre-chorus 3
Dm

Things are going to slide,
C

slide in all directions
Dm

Won't be nothing
C

Nothing you can measure anymore
Dm
F

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold
Fm

And it's overturned
C

The order of the soul
Chorus 3
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

Am

I wonder what they meant
G

When they said (they said)
Am

Repent (repent), repent (repent)

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