The Future Is a Foreign Land

Em
Fifteen years from now
Bm
I know it feels remote
C                G
But picture it somehow
D
In your head
Em
It's 1984
Bm
And knocking on your door
C                    G
Is the Brownshirt Stasi guard
          D
Boom, you're gone
           C                   G
And in the blood of the Kennedys
D             Bm
The good ones get shot
  C                       G
And in the absence of sympathies
   D
Won't you hear me out?

Em                   C
When it all burns down
G                    D
When it all burns down
Em                   C              G
I will hold you close for the minute
 D                                       Em
Yeah, I'll hold you for the minute it takes

Em
Fifty-five years from now (ooh)
Bm
I know it sounds insane (ooh)
C                   G         D
The dark fascist regime might be gone (might be gone)
           C                            G
Oh, if you by then have forgiven me (ooh)
  D                     Bm
When push comes to shove
     C                          G
We don't have to be enemies (ah-ah)
      D
Won't you hear me out?

Em                   C
When it all burns down
G                    D
When it all burns down
Em                 C                G
I will hold you close for the minute
             D
For the minute

C                   Em
When it all burns down
A                 Cm                       G
And the flames devour everything that we are
D                          C
I will hold you for the minute
D                                     Em
I will hold you for the minute it takes

Em
With these words at hand
Bm               D
The future is a foreign land
C
So let us pray for more
G      D
In 2024
         Em                      Bm
(2024) We could grow old together
                     C          C
(2024) We could love one another
        C                       G
(2024) And there will from then be peace forevermore (forever)
                Em
Peace forevermore (and forever)

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

C                  Em
If it all burns down
A                  Cm                      G
And the flames devour everything that we are
D                             C
I will hold you for the minute
D                                     Em
I will hold you for the minute it takes