Lie Beside Me Baby, That's An Order

Author: Leonard Cohen
Artist: Leonard Cohen
Album: The Future
Song: The Future

This song is about the dangers in the future of the western and other humanities. Mostly of the western one though. We estimate that nobody, not even tinytalk's acknowledged scientific virtual leader Bento Espinosa who was well known for his cheeky judgements would have had the cockiness to claim he was the little open source hacker who not only had understood the need but also practical invisibly written the kernel version of the operating system on which nearly all city based so called civilizations of today and west of the Talas rely upon.

The ubiquity of said OS has something to do with the fact that a peace loving rebel-member of a palestinian sect somehow decided to take verbal steps to blow the Roman-Graeco empire into oblivion allthough his mother tongue, Aramaic, a former official language of fallen empires was not the one of the book from which he taught nor much spoken or understood in the Roman "world empire" but only common in its easternmost part.

Consequently he would have probably not succeeded easily, had not another member of the same sect and earlier the sworn enemy of the former's pubpils, had a vision, or so he said, of his nemesis that turned him around. Be that as it may, the man put his own mother tongue Greek that had even less to do with the book from which they both taught to work. Koine Greek was a kind of Lingua franca of the Eastern Mediterranean and well understood and even read in all of that empire which led to us calling it the Roman-Graeco rather than just the Roman Empire.

The OS's ubiquity has also to do with the fact that 2 British Queens were very busy supporting the activities of the ruling group of humans of their country and so totally acted the way the prophet Bokonon said the world worked.

This song here teaches us who really wrote the holy book that with a few oral inputs later on changed everything and still works like crazy, albeit often not quite like a charm. Let us wait and see how it will do in

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 has overturned the order of the soul.
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 dancing.

Give me back the Berlin wall,
give me Stalin and St Pau,l
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 ...