The Future Is a Foreign Land

Gm
Fifteen years from now
  Dm
I know it feels remote
    Eb             Bb
But picture it somehow
        F
In your head

     Gm
It's 1984
    Dm
And knocking on your door
       Eb               Bb
Is the Brownshirt Stasi guard
             F
Boom, you're gone

                        Eb        Bb
And in the blood of the Kennedys
    F              Dm
The good ones get shot
                      Eb        Bb
And in the absence of sympathy
          F
Won't you hear me out?

        Gm     Dm Eb
When it all burns down
        Bb        F
When it all burns down
       Gm     Dm Eb              
I will hold you close for the 
    Bb
minute
           F
Yeah, I'll hold you for the minute 
it takes

Gm
Fifty-five years from now
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   Dm
I know it sounds insane
    Eb             Bb          
The dark fascist regime might be 
   F
gone

                           Eb      
Oh, if you by then have forgiven me
  Bb

     F             Dm
When push comes to shove
                    Eb       Bb
We don't have to be enemies
          F
Won't you hear me out?

        Gm      Dm Eb
When it all burns down
        Bb        F
When it all burns down
       Gm     Dm Eb              
I will hold you close for the 
    Bb
minute
           F
For the minute

        Bb        Gm
When it all burns down
         C7       Eb           
And the flames devour everything 
          Bb
that we are
       F                       Eb
I will hold you for the minute
       Ebm/F#                     
I will hold you for the minute it 
Bb
takes

Passagem (Bb  A  Gm)

Gm
With these words at hand
Dm              F
The future is a foreign land
   Eb                       Bb    
So let us pray for more in twenty 
        F
twenty-four
 Gm
(Twenty twenty-four)
                    Dm
We could grow old together

(Twenty twenty-four)
                   Eb      Bb
We could love one another

(Twenty twenty-four)
                            F
And then we'll from then be peace 
forevermore
G
Peace forevermore

          Am     Em F
But if it all burns down
      C         G
If it all burns down
       Am     Em F               
I will hold you close for the 
    C
minute
          G
For the minute

      F         Am
If it all burns down
        D7       F             
And the flames devour everything 
          C
that we are
       G                       F
I will hold you for the minute
       Fm/Ab                      
I will hold you for the minute it 
Am
takes