The Future del maestro Leonard Cohen
Hola terrícolas, yo soy Roberto Islas, en esta ocasión voy a tocar el tema de una de mis canciones predilectas, es una canción misteriosa, mística, histórica y más que nada es una canción enigmática.
The Future es una canción del poeta y compositor canadiense Leonard Cohen, una obra con versos crudos y un significado muy profundo, es toda una estructura armada muy minuciosamente que Leonard construyó para transmitir un mensaje devastador y pesimista acerca del rumbo que la humanidad está tomando.
Finalmente y pese a la oscuridad de esta sombría canción, nuestro querido autor deja entrar un pequeño haz de luz de esperanza.
The Future es una canción del poeta y compositor canadiense Leonard Cohen, una obra con versos crudos y un significado muy profundo, es toda una estructura armada muy minuciosamente que Leonard construyó para transmitir un mensaje devastador y pesimista acerca del rumbo que la humanidad está tomando.
No sé que tantas referencias históricas pueda tener esa canción pero estoy seguro que son bastantes, cada verso habla sobre alguna, se habla del muro de Berlín, de Stalin, de Hiroshima, de la religión, de naciones y culturas. Realmente Leonard Cohen, el hombre de la voz cavernosa era un genio, un poeta que decía las cosas sin pelos en la lengua, soltaba cascadas de verdad disfrazadas de oscuridad y crudeza.
The Future (la canción) está incluida en el álbum homónimo, el cual es el noveno álbum de Leonard Cohen, editado en 1992.
The Future (la canción) está incluida en el álbum homónimo, el cual es el noveno álbum de Leonard Cohen, editado en 1992.
Muchas canciones de este disco aparecieron en diferentes películas: "Waiting for the Miracle", "Anthem" y "The Future", fueron usadas por Oliver Stone en su película de 1994 Natural Born Killers. También aparecen temas de este álbum en la película Wonder Boys y The Life of David Gale.
A continuación la letra de The Future, del maestro Leonard Cohen.
A continuación la letra de The Future, del maestro Leonard Cohen.
THE FUTURE
BY LEONARD COHEN
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 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 ...
When they said REPENT REPENT ...
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 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 ...
When they said REPENT REPENT ...
Finalmente y pese a la oscuridad de esta sombría canción, nuestro querido autor deja entrar un pequeño haz de luz de esperanza.
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