[Verse 1]
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!
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus: Leonard Cohen, Choir, Leonard Cohen & Choir]
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be nothing), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned the order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
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
[Chorus: Leonard Cohen, Choir, Leonard Cohen & Choir]
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be nothing), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned the order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
[Verse 5]
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
[Verse 6]
You'll see your 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
Yeah, the white man dancing
[Verse 7]
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
[Chorus: Leonard Cohen, Choir, Leonard Cohen & Choir]
Things are going to slide (slide) in all directions
Won't be nothing (won't be nothing), nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned the order of the soul
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (they said) repent (repent), repent (repent)
