The Future Chords by Leonard Cohen

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_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ Give _ _ _ me absolute _ _ [C]
control [Dm] over every [Dm] living soul.
[D] And laugh at me [E] baby, _ that's an [Am] order.
_ Give me absolute control over every living soul. _
Give me crack and anal [Em]
sex.
[Dm] Take the only [Dm] treat that's left.
[D] Stuff it [E] up the hole in your [Am] culture. _ _ _ _ _
Give me a back from a murder [G]
mall.
[Dm] Give me a style in St.
Paul.
[D] I've seen the future [E] brother, it [Am] is murder.
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_ [Dm] Bring the wrong _ [C] slide.
_ Spy in all directions. _
[Dm] And nothing, nothing _ [C] you can measure _ _ anymore. _
[Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard [C] of the [F] world has crossed the threshold.
And [Fm] it's over time for order of [C] the soul.
_ _ _ When [G] they say, they say, repent, repent, _ repent.
_ _ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean. _ _ _
[G] When they say, they say, repent, repent, _ repent.
_ _ _ I wonder [Am] what they mean. _ _ _
[G] When they say, they say, repent, repent, _ repent.
_ _ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean. _ _ _ _
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You don't own me from [G] the wind.
[Dm] You never will, you [Dm] never did.
[Ab] I'm the little [E] Jew _ who [Am] wrote the Bible. _ _ _ _ _
I've seen the nations rise [Em] and fall.
[Dm] I've heard their stories, heard them all.
[D] But love's the only [E] engine [D]
of [Am] survival. _ _ _ _ _
Your servant here, he has been told [Dm] to say it clear.
To say it good, [D] it's over.
It [E] ain't good any [Am] further. _ _ _ _
And now the wheels of heaven [Em] stop.
You [Dm] feel the devil's riding crop.
[D] Get ready for [E] the future, [Bm]
it [Am] is murder.
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_ [Dm] Bring the wrong _ [C] slide.
_ _ Spy in all directions.
The future won't [Dm] be nothing.
_ _ Nothing [C] you can measure _ _ anymore. _
[Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard [Am]
of [C] the world.
Cross [F] the threshold, [Fm] it's over.
Turn the order of [C] the soul. _ _ _ _
[G] When they say, they say, repent, _ [D]
repent, [G] repent.
_ _ _ I wonder [Am] what they mean. _ _
When [G] they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent.
_ _ _ [D] I wonder [Am] what they mean. _ _ _
When [G] they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent.
_ _ _ I wonder [Am] what they mean. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ They'll be the breaker of the ancient western code. _ _ _
Your [Dm] private life will suddenly _ explode. _ _ _ _
There'll [Am] be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road.
Hands of weight, man [F] dancing. _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ You'll see [Am] a woman _ hang, _ [E] _
[Am] sad, down. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] Her features covered by her fallen gown.
_ _ _ And [Am] all the lousy little poets come around.
_ Trying to sound like [F] Charlie Manson. _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ You'll hear the white [Am] man dancing. _ _ _ _ _
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_ Give me that Berlin [Em]
Wall.
[Dm] Give me Stalin and St.
Paul.
[D] Give me Christ [E] or give [D] me _ [Am] Hiroshima. _ _ _ _ _
_ Destroy another, feed [Em] us now.
[Dm] Don't let children in and out.
[D] I've seen the future, [E] baby.
[Bm]
It [Am] is murder. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ Things are gonna slide.
[C] _
_ _ In all _ directions, there won't [Dm] be nothing.
_ _ Nothing [Am]
you [C] can measure anymore. _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ The [Am] blizzard of [F] the world has crossed the threshold.
In [Fm] this over time, the order of [C] the soul. _ _ _ _
[G] When they say, they say, repent, _ [Dm]
repent, [G] repent.
_ _ _ I [A] wonder [Am] what they mean. _ _ _
When [G] they say, they say, repent, _ repent, repent.
_ _ I _ wonder what they mean. _ _
When [G] they say, they say, repent, repent, repent.
_ _ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean. _ _ _
When they say, they say, repent, repent, _ repent. _ _ _ _
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