Biography:
Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and romantic relationships. Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011, Cohen received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize.
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- Aleluya
- Bird On A Wire
- Bird On The Wire
- Blessed Is The Memory
- Chelsea Hotel
- Chelsea Hotel #2
- Chelsea Hotel No 2
- Chelsea Hotel No. 2
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
- Diamonds In The Mine
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- Hallelujah
- Halluejah
- Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye
- Last Years Man
- Passing Through
- Seems So Long Ago, Nancy
- Shrek - Aleluya (hallelujah)
- Slow
- Suzanne
- The Partisan
- If It Be Your Will
- So Long Marianne
- A Bunch Of Lonesome Heroes
- A Singer Must Die
- A Thousand Kisses Deep
- A Veterans Hallelujah
- Aint No Cure For Love
- Alexandra Leaving
- Almost Like The Blues
- Always
- Amen
- Anthem
- Avalanche
- Ballad Of The Absent Mare
- Banjo
- Boogie Street
- Born In Chains
- Chelsea Hotel 2
- Closing Time
- Come Healing
- Coming Back To You
- Crazy To Love You
- Death Of A Ladies Man
- Democracy
- Did I Ever Love You
- Dont Go Home With Your Hard
- Dress Rehearsal Rag
- Everybody Knows
- Field Commander Cohen
- First We Take Manhattan
- Going Home
- Heart With No Companion
- Hey Thats No Way
- Hey Thats No Way To Say Goodbye
- I Was Never Any Good At Loving You
- If I Didnt Have Your Love
- Im Your Man
- In My Secret Life
- Iodine
- Is This What You Wanted
- It Seemed The Better Way
- Joan Of Arc
- Lady Midnight
- Land Of Plenty
- Leaving Green Sleeves
- Leaving The Table
- Love Calls You By Your Name
- Lover Lover Lover
- Master Song
- Memories
- My Oh My
- Nevermind
- Night Comes On
- No Way To Say Goodbye
- On The Level
- One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong
- Paper Thin Hotel
- Samson In New Orleans
- Seems So Long Ago
- Seems So Long Ago Nancy
- Show Me The Place
- Sing Another Song Boys
- Sisters Of Mercy
- Song Of Bernadette
- Songs From A Room
- Songs Of Leonard Cohen
- Steer Your Way
- Store Room
- Stories Of The Street
- Story Of Isaac
- Stranger Song
- Take This Longing
- Take This Waltz
- Teachers
- Tennessee Waltz
- That Dont Make It Junk
- The Butcher
- The Captain
- The Darkness
- The Future
- The Guests
- The Gypsy Wife
- The Old Revolution
- The Smokey Life
- The Stranger Song
- The Traitor
- The Window
- There Is War
- Theres No Reason Why You Should
- Tonight Will Be Fine
- Tower Of Song
- Treaty
- True Love Leaves No Traces
- Waiting For The Miracle
- Who By Fire
- Why Dont You Try
- Winter Lady
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- You Know Who I Am
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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:28:41 -0400
From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier
THE FUTURE (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Records' release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)
Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/30/95
URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/
[Intro]
Am
[Verse 1]
Dm
Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life
G6 E7 Am
it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture
Dm
Give me absolute control over every living soul
G6 Am
And lie beside me baby, that's an order!
Dm
Give me crack an anal sex, take the only tree that's left
G6 E7 Am
and stuff it up the hole in your culture
Dm
Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6 E7 Am
I've seen the future, brother: it is murder.
[Chorus]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
and it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
[Verse 2]
(same chords as first)
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 engibe 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.
[Chorus]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
and it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
[Verse 3]
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Dm
Your private life will suddenly explode
Am
There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
F7 E
and the white man dancing
Am
You'll see your woman hanging upside down
Dm
her features covered by her fallen gown
Am
and all the lousy little poets coming around
F7 E
trying to sound like Charlie Manson
Am
and the white man dancing
Dm
Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6 E7 Am
Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima
Dm
Destroy another fetus now, we don't like children anyhow
G6 E7 Am
I've seen the future, baby: it is murder.
[Chorus]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
and it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G Am
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
(end on Am)
Chords:
EADGBE
Am: X02210
C: X32010
Dm: XX0231
E7: 030100
F: 133211
Fm: 133111
F7: 131211
G: 320003
G6: 320000
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 95 01:28:41 -0400
From: Clay Jonathan Boutilier
THE FUTURE (L. Cohen)
from Columbia Records' release THE FUTURE by LEONARD COHEN (CK 53226)
Transcribed by Clay Boutilier 07/30/95
URL: http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~cjboutil/
[Intro]
Am
[Verse 1]
Dm
Give me back my broken night, my mirrored room, my secret life
G6 E7 Am
it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture
Dm
Give me absolute control over every living soul
G6 Am
And lie beside me baby, that's an order!
Dm
Give me crack an anal sex, take the only tree that's left
G6 E7 Am
and stuff it up the hole in your culture
Dm
Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6 E7 Am
I've seen the future, brother: it is murder.
[Chorus]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
and it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
[Verse 2]
(same chords as first)
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 engibe 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.
[Chorus]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
and it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
[Verse 3]
There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code
Dm
Your private life will suddenly explode
Am
There'll be phantoms, there'll be fires on the road
F7 E
and the white man dancing
Am
You'll see your woman hanging upside down
Dm
her features covered by her fallen gown
Am
and all the lousy little poets coming around
F7 E
trying to sound like Charlie Manson
Am
and the white man dancing
Dm
Give me back the Berlin Wall, give me Stalin and St. Paul
G6 E7 Am
Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima
Dm
Destroy another fetus now, we don't like children anyhow
G6 E7 Am
I've seen the future, baby: it is murder.
[Chorus]
Dm C
Things are gonna slide (slide) in all directions
Dm C
Won't be nothing (won't be) nothing you can't measure anymore.
Dm F
The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold
Fm C
and it has overturned the order of the soul
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
Am
I wonder what they meant
G Am
When they said (they said) REPENT (repent) REPENT (repent)
(end on Am)
Chords:
EADGBE
Am: X02210
C: X32010
Dm: XX0231
E7: 030100
F: 133211
Fm: 133111
F7: 131211
G: 320003
G6: 320000
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