The Future Chords by Leonard Cohen

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Give me a background broken [G] at [Dm] my mirror,
wrong, [Dm] a secret life, [Ab] it's lonely here,
[E] there's no [Bm] one left to [Am] torture. _ _ _ _ _ _
Give me absolute _ _ [C] control
[Dm] over every [Dm] living soul
[D] in life beside me, [E] baby.
_ [D] That's an [Am] order.
_ Yeah, yeah, yeah. _ _
Give me a crack, ain't no [C] sex.
[Dm] Take the only tree that's left,
[D] stuff it [E] up the hole in your [Am] culture.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Give me a backbone, burn [C] more.
[Dm] Give me style, then sing part.
[D] I've seen future, [E] brother.
[D] It [Am] is murder.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. _
[Dm] Fingers of God _ [Am] slide, _
[C] sliding all direction. _
[Dm] Ain't nothing, won't be nothing
[F] you [C] can't measure _ _ anymore. _
[Dm] The blizzard, the blizzard [C] of the [F] world
has crossed the threshold
and [Fm] it's all turned the order of [C] the soul.
_ _ _ _ When [G] they say, prepare, _ prepare, _ prepare, prepare,
_ I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ _ _ [G] When they say, prepare, _ _ prepare, prepare, prepare,
_ I wonder [Am] what they mean.
_ _ _ [G] When they say, prepare, _ prepare, prepare, prepare,
_ _ I wonder [Am] what they mean. _ _ _ _
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You don't know me from [G] the wind.
[Dm] You never will.
You never did. _
[Ab] I'm the little [E] Jew _ who wrote [Am] the Bible. _ _ _ _ _
I've seen the nations rise and [C] fall.
[Dm] I've heard their stories, heard them all.
But [D] love's the only [E] engine [A] of [Am] survival. _ _ _ _ _
Your servant here, he has been [G] told
[Dm] to say it clear, to [Dm] say it cool.
It's [Ab] over.
It ain't [E] going any [Am] further.
_ _ _ _ Now, now, the wheels of heaven [G] stop.
You [Dm] feel the devil's riding crop.
Get [D] ready for the [E] future.
[Bm] It is [Am] my turn. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] Fingers of God _ [C] slide, _
sliding all direction.
The future won't [Dm] be nothing,
_ _ nothing [C] you can't measure _ anymore. _ _
[Dm] The blizzard, _ the blizzard [A] of [C] the world
[F] crossed the threshold and [Fm] it's over.
Turn the corner of [C] the soul.
_ _ _ _ [G] When they say, _ prepare, _ prepare, prepare, prepare,
_ I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ _ When [G] they say, _ prepare, _ _ prepare, prepare, _ prepare,
I [D] wonder [Am] what they mean.
_ _ When [G]
they say, _ prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare,
_ _ I [Am] wonder what they mean. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ They'll be the break-in of the ancient Western code.
_ _ _ Your [Dm] pride for the life will _ suddenly explode.
_ _ _ _ _ There'll be [Am] pants, there'll be fires [C] on the [Am] road,
_ and a white [F] man dancing. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ You'll see a [Am] woman _ hang _ upside down. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] Her features covered by her fallen gown,
_ _ _ _ and [Am] all the lousy little poets coming round,
_ trying to sound like Charlie [F] Manson. _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ Hear the white man [Am] dancing. _ _ _ _ _ _
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Give me back Berlin [Em] Wall.
[Dm] Give me Stalin [Dm] and St.
Paul.
[D] Give me Christ [E] or give me _ [Am] Hiroshima. _ _ _ _ _ _
Destroy _ another.
Feed us [C] now with [Dm] donut children.
In and out.
[D] I've seen the future, [E] baby.
_ [D] It [Am] is murder. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ Things go _ [Am] sliding. _
[C] _ In all directions.
[D] Don't [Dm] need nothing.
_ _ Nothing [Am] you [C] can't measure _ anymore. _ _
[Dm] I'm a blizzard.
The blizzard [C] of the [F] world has crossed the threshold.
[Fm] And it's over.
Turn the order of the [C] soul.
_ _ _ _ [G] When they say, prepare, _ _ [D] prepare, [G] prepare, prepare,
_ I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ _ When [G] they say, _ _ prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare,
_ I wonder [Am] what they mean.
_ _ _ [G] When they say, _ prepare, _ _ prepare, prepare, prepare,
I [Am] wonder what they mean.
_ [G] When they say, _ prepare, prepare, prepare, _ prepare, prepare, _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _