Leonard Cohen - The future

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Give me back my broken night
my mirrored room, my secret life
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.

Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won t be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
I wonder what they meant
When they said REPENT REPENT
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

Things are going to slide ...

There ll be the breaking of the ancient
western code
Your private life will suddenly explode
There ll be phantoms
There ll be fires on the road
and the white man dancing
You ll see a woman
hanging upside down
her features covered by her fallen gown
and all the lousy little poets
coming round
tryin to sound like Charlie Manson
and the white man dancin

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

Things are going to slide ...

When they said REPENT REPENT ...

Inne utwory

  • If it be your will
  • You have loved enough
  • Who by fire
  • Song of destruction
  • On that day
  • In my secret life
  • Teachers
  • Love calls you by your name
  • The third invention
  • You know who i am
  • The smokey life
  • Here it is
  • One of us cannot be wrong
  • The land of plenty
  • Everybody knows
  • So long Marianne
  • Came so far for beauty
  • Queen Victoria
  • Losowe utwory

    A song for the lonely

    (This is) A Song for the lonely
    When you re standing on the edge of nowhere
    There s only one way up so your heart s got to go there
    Through the darkest night
    See the light shine bright
    When heroes fall in love or war they live forever

    Dancing your dreams

    A prima ballerina, that s what I want to be.
    When I dance and close my eyes,
    This is what I see,

    Chorus
    White feathers, princess crowns,
    Satin shoes, and gorgeous gowns,
    I ll be Cinderella and you can be a queen
    Spin on a snowflake or reach across moon beams
    Bright as the starlight, or that s...

    John Henry lives

    Hear the whistle blow far off
    In the still night without stars
    See the tracks laid flat with a hammer s might
    They re the spike driver s scars
    They re the spike driver s scars

    By the railroad ties there a hammer lies it s all painted in red
    It s all painted in...

    Dream in color

    Ooh, hoo...yeah
    Mmm, hmm

    Tired of living life in black and white
    There’s so much in between
    Like a rainbow in the sky
    Waiting to be seen

    When i open my eyes to find inspiration
    I search for the best i can see
    If i settle for less
    I won’t be the best i can be

    When i dream, i...

    Last night

    (Busta Rhymes)(Chorus)
    Comin in the dance last night(uh hum)
    Busta boy fear last night(uh oh)
    Me couldn t find me nine(um hum)
    So me go, pull out me knife(so me say)
    (repeat 2 x)

    (Spilff Star)
    A lot of brothers don t...