The Future (Leonard Cohen) One Song/Three Versions

Το Future είναι μέσα από το ένατο στούντιο άλμπουμ  με τον ομώνυμο τίτλο από τον Καναδό τραγουδιστή-τραγουδοποιό Leonard Cohen , που κυκλοφόρησε το 1992. Σχεδόν μια ώρα σε διάρκεια, ήταν το μεγαλύτερο σε διάρκεια άλμπουμ του Cohen. Τόσο η πτώση του τείχους του Βερολίνου όσο και οι αναταραχές του Λος Άντζελες του 1992 επηρέασαν ενώ ο Cohen γράφει και ηχογραφεί το άλμπουμ, το οποίο εξέφραζε την αίσθηση της αναταραχής του κόσμου.Το άλμπουμ βασίστηκε στην επιτυχία του προηγούμενου άλμπουμ του Cohen, I'm Your Man , και συγκέντρωσε συντριπτικά θετικές κριτικές.Το Future μπήκε στα Top 40 στα βρετανικά άλμπουμ, έγινε διπλά πλατινένιο στον Καναδά και πούλησε ένα τέταρτο εκατομμύριο αντίτυπα στις ΗΠΑ

Εμείς θα το ακούσουμε σήμερα από τον ίδιο τον Cohen φυσικά και από τον Popa Chubby φοβερή διασκευή και από τον Teddy Thompson

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, 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

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, 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

When they said repent repent