The Future chords by Leonard Cohen (Official Version)
Intro 1
Am
Am
Am
Am
Verse 1
Am
Give me back my broken night
Dm
My mirrored room, my secret life
E7b9
It's lonely here
Am
There's no one left to torture
Give me absolute control
Dm
Over every living soul
E7b9
And lie beside me, baby
Am
That's an order
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Verse 2
Am
Give me crack and anal sex
Dm
Take the only tree that's left
E7b9
And stuff it up the hole
Am
In your culture
Give me back the Berlin wall
Dm
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
E7b9
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
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
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
E7b9
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
E7b9
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
E7b9
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
E7b9
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
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
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
F7
E7
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
F7
E7
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
E7b9
Give me Christ
Am
or give me Hiroshima (do, do, do)
Destroy another fetus now
Dm
We don't like children anyhow
E7b9
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
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
When they said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G7
When they said (they said)
Am
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
The Future
Leonard Cohen
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