The Future - Live in London

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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 speed and careless 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, won't be 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
 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, won't ne 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
 There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
 I mean, your private life will suddenly explode
 And 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 taking 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 love 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, won't be nothing
 You can measure anymore
 The blizzard, 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 (repent)

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Duration
07:20
Key
9
Tempo
144 BPM

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