The Future Is A Foreign Land

[Intro]
| F | - | Gm | - |
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[Verse 1]
Gm
Fifteen years from now
  Dm
I know it feels remote
    Eb             Bb
But picture it somehow
            F
In your head
     Gm
It's nineteen eighty four
    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

[Pre-Chorus]
        F         Dm
The good ones get shot
                         Eb     Bb
And in the absence of sympathies
          F
Won't you hear me out?

[Chorus]
          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 minute
Bb
  Yeah,
     F                              Gm
I'll hold you for the minute it takes

[Verse 2]
Gm
Fifty five years from now
  Dm
I know it sounds insane
    Eb             Bb                F
The dark fascist regime might be gone
                             Eb    Bb
Oh, if you by then have forgiven me

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

[Chorus]
          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 minute
Bb              F
  For the minute
           Eb      Gm
When it all  burns down
              C  Ebm                        Bb
And the flames devour everything that we are
       F
I will hold you for the minute
Eb       Ebm                             Bb Am
  I will hold you for the minute it takes

[Bridge]
Gm
With these words at hand
Dm                F
  The future is a foreign land
   Eb
So let us pray for more
   Bb                F
In twenty twenty four
Gm                    Dm
  We could grow old together
                   Eb
We could love one another
Bb                            F
  And there will from then be peace forevermore
G
Peace forevermore

[Chorus]
          Am       Em F
But if it all burns   down
           C      G
When it all burns down
           Am   Em F
I will hold  you   close for the minute
C              G
 For the minute
         F      Am
If it all burns down
              D  Fm                         C
And the flames devour everything that we are
       G
I will hold you for the minute
F       Fm                             Am
 I will hold you for the minute it takes