The Future chords by Leonard Cohen (Official Version)
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Intro 1
(A minor) (A minor) (A minor) (A minor)
Verse 1
(A minor) Give me back my broken night
My (D minor) mirrored room, my secret life
It's lone (E7b9) ly here
There's no one left to torture (A minor)
Give me absolute control
(D minor) Over every living soul
And (E7b9) lie beside me, baby
That's an or (A minor) der
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Verse 2
(A minor) Give me crack and anal sex
(D minor) Take the only tree that's left
And (E7b9) stuff it up the hole
In your cul (A minor) ture
Give me back the Berlin wall
(D minor) Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've (E7b9) seen the future, brother
It is (A minor) murder
Pre-chorus 1
(D minor) Things are going to slide,
(C major) slide in all directions
Won't be (D minor) nothing
Nothing you can (C major) measure anymore
The (D minor) blizzard, the blizzard of the (F major) world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's (F minor) overturned
The order of the (C major) soul
Chorus 1
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
Verse 3
(A minor) You don't know me from the wind
You (D minor) never will, you never did
(E7b9) I'm the little Jew
Who wrote the (A minor) Bible
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard (D minor) their stories, heard them all
But (E7b9) love's the only engine of survival (A minor)
Verse 4
Your (A minor) servant here, he has been told
To (D minor) say it clear, to say it cold
It's (E7b9) over, it ain't going
Any further (A minor) (do, do, do)
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You (D minor) feel the devil's riding crop
Get (E7b9) ready for the future
It is (A minor) murder (do, do, do)
Pre-chorus 2
(D minor) Things are going to slide,
(C major) slide in all directions
Won't be (D minor) nothing
Nothing you can (C major) measure anymore
The (D minor) blizzard, the blizzard of the (F major) world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's (F minor) overturned
The order of the (C major) soul
Chorus 2
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
Bridge 1
There'll be the (A minor) breaking
of the ancient western code
Your (D minor) private life will
suddenly explode (ooh, ooh)
There'll be (A minor) phantoms
There'll be fires on the road
And the white man (F7) dancing (E7)
You'll see a wo (A minor) man
Hanging upside down (ooh, ooh)
Her (D minor) features covered
by her fallen gown (ooh, ooh)
And all the (A minor) lousy little poets coming around
Tryin' to sound like Charlie (F7) Manson (E7)
Yeah, the white man dancin' (A minor)
Verse 5
(A minor) Give me back the Berlin wall
(D minor) Give me Stalin and St. Paul
(E7b9) Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshi (A minor) ma (do, do, do)
Destroy another fetus now
We (D minor) don't like children anyhow
I've (E7b9) seen the future, baby
It is (A minor) murder (do, do, do)
Pre-chorus 3
(D minor) Things are going to slide,
(C major) slide in all directions
Won't be (D minor) nothing
Nothing you can (C major) measure anymore
The (D minor) blizzard, the blizzard of the (F major) world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's (F minor) overturned
The order of the (C major) soul
Chorus 3
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they (G7) said (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they said (G7) (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder (A minor) what they meant
When they said (G7) (they said)
Repent (repent), repent (repent) (A minor)
The Future
Leonard Cohen
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