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The official video clip for "The Future", lead single from the 1992 album of the same name. The clip was released in 1993. (c) 1993 SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (Canada)
"A pessimist is someone who is waiting for it to rain. But I'm already soaked to the skin.", said Cohen in 1993. And that's exactly what this apocalyptic video shows - Cohen soaked to the skin, doing a "white man's dance" in his hotel room, in the rain.
In the mirror, you can see his back-up singers Julie Christensen and Perla Batalla.
NOTE: The video follows *radio edit* version. The single version was shortened from 6:41 to 4:53, shortening chorus (REPENT lines), omitting the verse starting with line "Your servant here", and in the end, by omitting the repeated first verse and shortened chorus (you can clearly hear the cut before the last chorus, at 4:01)
Also: there's an INTENTIONAL "censorship" of words "crack" and "anal sex" to further underline the song's content. This was made probably by Cohen himself, in any case, it's present in the ORIGINAL video clip - my copy comes from the official The Future press kit. During 1993 tour, Cohen sang "careless sex" when he knew that the concert was broadcasted, otherwise he sung "anal sex". In 2008 and 2009, he's singing "careless sex" constantly.
THE FUTURE 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 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 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'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 ...
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 your 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 ...
When they said REPENT REPENT ...
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