The Future

[lunasea11]

the only place to find 34,000 prophets hanging out, passing out notes to eachother.

[Pilotpatty1]

I usually don't like cover versions but this one is spectacular!!! Thank you for posting this!

[VivaElVodka]

This is one of my favourites covers, it's just perfect!

[Ca1000iTa]

Oh I <3 This version... hahaha

[FearPhotography]

Safe xx

[CutClip]

very interesting version... kind of funny

[roelant2]

Great performance by Teddy Thompson of a great Cohen song. I love to play the album 'I'm your man' in my car. This is one of my favorite songs on the album. Bravo also to the wonderful backing vocals!

[brandomumble]

One of the best covers - ever! Leonard Cohen's words and music delivered by Teddy Thompson's voice...no need to repent about that choice.

[Thadesgal]

Them be some pretty strong lyrics. ;o )

For some odd reason I like this song. The music is a kind of throw-back to the 60s and the lyrics are raw and uninhibited.

[studiotoza]

fantastik..:)  and more than that...

[Hunter172]

I can't even find the words to describe what Teddy's vocie does to me sometimes, or Leonards songs for that matter. This is a fantastic song, and Teddy even makes it sexy somehow. A brave and stunning cover, well done Teddy!

[RealGanya]

This is absolute, this is it, this is fantastic.

Im amazed and stuned that I've never heard this before..

This is very good.. I love it..

[ccg654]

A friend put this on a mix for me, though I wasn't a Cohen fan, had never heard this song or Teddy Thompson before -- and it became an instant favorite. It's almost 7 minutes but it keeps your attention for every second. Got to be one of the best covers ever done.

[ogopogoogo]

Mouse - you're missing Cohen's point not to mention you are confusing neo-con civil libertarian and liberals. LOL

[mouse2227]

Dude- There's little difference between the two anymore...

[ProDoombringer]

PURE AWESOMENESS!

[15Ceri]

A great cover!

[mouse2227]

Even better than the original me thinks!

[mouse2227]

I think Teddy was brave to cover this song. The message may piss off the liberals, but I think the general public has been begging for a song like this for too long...

[yohei72]

"The message" of the song is hardly as clear as you seem to wish. There are complex layers of ambiguity and irony in it, and if you're trying to pin it to one political agenda, you've got your work cut out for you. As far as I can tell from his songs and what little I know about the man, he's hardly a conservative, except maybe on abortion (which *is* referenced here).

Even if you're right, maybe we liberals can appreciate compelling art even if we don't agree 100% with its message.

[mouse2227]

It is unfortunate that as an American, I am forced to watch the rapid decline of our countries moral values knowing that there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. After all, we all have such wonderful freedoms here in the U.S.! It's just too bad that so many of us don't know how to think beyond our own fields of vision. I do blame the liberals as is my right. Unfortunately, like some liberals, you had to "twist and distort " to suit your own agenda.

[zommes]

Freedoms such as...?

[yohei72]

And if "the general public has been begging" for doomy art songs about apocalyptic social breakdown (an odd assertion), they clearly need to pay more attention, since this one was originally released 16 or 17 years ago and I don't think it's ever made it onto the Billboard charts.

[mouse2227]

I seem to have struck a raw nerve with my comment. I hope you will forgive me for not being more clear. I do know how old the song is. However, Mr.Thompson just does it better. I should have said , "the general public should be begging for a song like this" Too many people today (especially our youth) think that it's ok to say and do whatever they want without having to suffer any long-term consequences.

[iMaajid]

Perhaps one of the best covers in the history of popular music.

[NaMrJellyRek]

This is an amazing song but what Thompson does with it is OUTFREAKINGSTANDING

one of the best songs of all time due to the way it was covered.

just amazing.

purely amazing

[GRX100]

Wow. Just wow.

[NaMrJellyRek]

yea Im with you

WOW.Just wow

nothing else to say

[LampLightBridge]

me three. Wow. Just wow.

[elimar008]

i wholheartedly join the waow club

[Volkmoidruk]

I'd like to hear THIS cover on the Country Western radio stations; HA HA!!

[Tommigril]

Love Teddy's voice! Also a Leonard Fan!

5*'s

[ncz82]

Give me crack and anal sex, take the only tree that's left and stuff it in the hole in your culture!

[Volkmoidruk]

The Senator David Vitter and Larry Craig Campaign Re-Election Song! ;))

[tscharre]

love's the only engine of survival. may I say I love you teddy and I also love you leonard. Every day I promise to repent. And every day I fail.

[contrarymary77]

Well, hopefully it's far better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all.

[zommes]

"When they say: Repent! Repent! I wonder what they ment."

[Lilleplym24]

WOW. Gotta love love Teddy. Fantastic performance! Can`t wait for the I`m your man-DVD to arrive any day now..

He`s even better than Rufus me thinks...

Well done, Teddy!!

[chloeencore]

Teddy this is a fantastic rendition of Leonard's tune.

BRAVO... Good summer to you.

[Arriannaj]

This is the best song on Leonard Cohens album. I play it over and over and know all the words and sing to it for hours...LOVE IT!!

Why dont you make your own CD?????

[davidnc76]

give me absolute control!!!

[davidnc76]

lie beside me baby, that's an order!

[triogamy]

they dont like children anyhow.distroy

another fetus now.repent you let it happen.fires in the road.

[Aleftime]

Bravo!