Chords for Leonard Cohen - The Future (Live in London)

_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Give me back my broken [Dm] nightmare, my mirrored room, my secret life, [E] it's lonely here, there's
no one left [Am] to torture.
[Bm] _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Bm] [Am] Give me _ absolute _ _ [Dm] control over every living soul, [E] then lie beside me,
baby.
That's [Am] an order. _ _ _
_ _ Give me craving, careless sex, [Dm] take my heart away.
Give me a heart that
's broken, the only tree that's left [E] and _ stumbling up a little hole in [Am] your culture. _ _
_ [C] _ _ [Am] Give me
back the Berlin Wall, [Dm] give me Stalin and St.
Paul, [Ab] I've seen the [E] future, brother, it [Am] is
murder. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ Things are gonna slide, _ [C] slide in all _ directions, won't be [Dm] nothing, nothing, nothing
won't be nothing you can [C] measure _ anymore.
_ [Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard of the [F] world has
crossed the threshold, [Fm] it's _ overturned the order of [C] the soul. _ _
_ When [G] they say, they say,
repent, repent, repent, repent, _ I wonder [Am] what they [G] meant.
[Am] _ _ [C] When [G] they say, they say, repent,
repent, repent, repent, _ _ I wonder [Am] what they meant.
_ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, _ repent,
repent, repent, _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ [Am] you don't know me from the [Dm] wind, you never will, you never did.
[E] I'm the
little Jew _ who [Am] wrote the Bible. _ _
_ _ _ I've seen the nations rise and fall, [Dm] heard the people
hurt, their stories hurt them all, [Ab] but love's the only [E] engine of [Am] survival. _ _
_ _ _ [Em] [Am] Your servant
here has been told [Dm] to say it clear, to say it [E] cold, it's over, it ain't going [Am] any further. _ _
_ _ _ And now the wheels of heaven stop, [Dm] you feel the devil's riding crop, [Ab] get ready for the
[E] future, it [Am] is murder, _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ they're going to slide, _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ won't [Dm] be nothing, won't be nothing you [C] can
measure _ anymore.
_ [Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard of the [F] world has crossed the threshold, [Fm] it's _ _
overturned the _ order [C] of the soul. _
_ _ When [G] they say, they say, repent, repent, repent, repent,
I _ wonder [Am] what they [G] meant.
_ [Am] _ [C] When [G] they say, they say, repent, repent, repent, repent, _ I [Am] wonder
what they meant.
_ When [G] they say, they say, repent, repent, _ repent, _ _ _ _ repent, [Am] _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ they'll [C] be
the [Am] breaking _ of the ancient western _ code.
_ _ _ [Dm] Your private life _ will suddenly _ explode. _
[D] _ _ [Am] There'll
be phantoms, there'll be _ fires on the road, _
_ [A] and a white [Dm] man [A] dancing. _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ You'll see [Am] a woman _
hanging _ upside down, _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] her features covered by her fallen gown, _ _ and [Am] all your lousy little
poets coming around, _ trying to sound like [A] Charlie _ Manson.
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Yeah, the white [Am] girl's dancing. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ Give me back the Berlin [Dm] Wall, give me Stalin and Saint Paul, [E] give me Christ, _
[Em] or give me
_ [Am] Hiroshima. _ _
_ _ _ Destroy _ another [C] fetus now, [Dm] we don't like children anyhow.
[D] I've seen the [E] future,
baby, now it is [Am] my turn. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] Thing gonna slide, _ _ [C] slide in all directions, won't [Dm] be nothing, _
_ _ [C] you can't measure _ anymore.
_ _ [Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard of the [F] world has crossed the threshold,
and [Fm] it's _ overturned the order of [C] the soul. _
_ _ [G] When they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent, _ _ _
I wonder [Am] what they [B] mean [Am] _ when they [G] say, _ repent, _ repent, repent, repent, _ repent, I wonder [Am] what
they mean _ _ when [G] they say, _ repent, repent, _ repent, repent, _ _ [Em] I wonder [Dm] what they mean [Am] _ when [G] they
Yes, sir.
Woot!
Woot!
Woot!
Woot!
Woot! Woot! _
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[C] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _