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The Future by Teddy Thompson album cover

The Future

by Teddy Thompson

Lyrics
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
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 was 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
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

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 a 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
Trying 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
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 I wonder what they meant