Leonard Cohen - The Future (live) - Vector Arena, Auckland - 21-12-2013

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