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leonard cohen certainly knows whats to come and many o his songs are dead on exactly, the symbolism he uses is correct, the esoteric symbology is correct and what he says about the future we have planned for us is very accurate, heres one...its called the future(highlighted poignient parts):

'the future' 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 ...'

this song is so so accurate, you can see for yoursel what it's saying.