Lyrics The Future - Live in London - Leonard Cohen

It's wonderful to be gathered here on just the other side of intimacy
So, I'm so pleased that you're here
I know that some of you have undergone financial and geographical inconvinience
We're... we're honored to play for you tonight
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 careless 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, won't ne 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 (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
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
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 (slide in all directions)
Won't be nothing, won't be 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 (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
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 your woman hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all your lousy little poets coming round
Tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
Yeah, the white girls 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 (slide in all directions)
Won't be nothing, won't be 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 (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said repent, repent (repent)
Thank you