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故 레널드 코헨(Leonard cohen) - The Future · ’92

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Give me back my broken night

My secret room, My secret life

Its’s lonely here

Theres’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 back the Berlin Wall

Give me Stalin and St. Paul

I’ve seen the future, Brother

It is murder.

Things are going to slide in all directions

Won’t be nothing

Nothing you can measure anymore

The blizzard of the world

Has crossed the threshold

And it has overturned

The order of the soul
When they said repent

I wonder what they meant
When they said repent

I wonder what they meant

When they said 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 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.

There’ll be the breaking of the ancient

Western code

Your private life will suddenly explode

There’ll be phantoms

There’ll be fires in the road

And the white man dancing
You’ll see the woman

Hanging upside down

Her features covered by her fallen gown

And all the lousy little poets

Coming round

Trying to sound like Charlie Manson.

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.

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