The Future (Leonard Cohen album)

The Future is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. Political events and history are found elsewhere on the album, with Cohen making references to Tiananmen Square, Stalin, World War II and Hiroshima.^[1]

The title track was originally called "If You Could See What's Coming Next", and underwent extensive rewrites, taking up almost sixty pages in Cohen's notebook, while "Closing Time" took two years with Cohen even starting over from scratch on the song as late as March 1992.

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↑ Zollo, Paul (2003). Songwriters On Songwriting (first published in Song Talk, journal of the National Academy of Songwriters, ed. by Paul Zollo) (expanded ed.). De Capo Press. p. 752. ISBN 9780306812651.

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[1] Zollo, Paul (2003). Songwriters On Songwriting (first published in Song Talk, journal of the National Academy of Songwriters, ed. by Paul Zollo) (expanded ed.). De Capo Press. p. 752. ISBN 9780306812651.

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Studio albums	Songs of Leonard Cohen Songs from a Room Songs of Love and Hate New Skin for the Old Ceremony Death of a Ladies' Man Recent Songs Various Positions I'm Your Man The Future Ten New Songs Dear Heather Old Ideas Popular Problems You Want It Darker
Songs	"Ain't No Cure for Love" "Avalanche" "Bird on the Wire" "Dance Me to the End of Love" "Everybody Knows" "Famous Blue Raincoat" "First We Take Manhattan" "The Gypsy's Wife" "Hallelujah" "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" "I'm Your Man" "In My Secret Life" "Joan of Arc" "The Partisan" "So Long, Marianne" "Suzanne" "Take This Waltz" "You Want It Darker"
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