“The Future” by Leonard Cohen

"The Future" is the title track of Leonard Cohen's ninth studio album, released in November 1992. He wrote and recorded the album while the Berlin Wall came down and the 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out, and the whole record carries his sense of a world knocked off its axis; this is the song that gave it its name.

Cohen wrote, arranged and produced the track and sings lead, with Bob Metzger on guitar, Steve Meador on drums and Lenny Castro on tambourine, and Leanne Ungar engineered and mixed. The album around it was his longest yet, close to an hour, with nearly 30 female singers in the credits, and building on the success of I'm Your Man, it drew glowing reviews and went double platinum in Canada.

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