The Future Songtext
von Abwärts

Give me back my broken night
My mirrored home, 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 (repent) 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 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, 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 (repent) repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant

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


You′ll see a woman hanging upside down
Her features covered by her fallen gown
And all the lousy little poets coming 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 Christ 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, 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 (repent) repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant
When they said (repent) repent (repent) repent (repent)
I wonder what they meant