In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus) Lyrics
If man is still alive,
If woman can survive,
They may find-
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth,
Tell no lies.
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today.
Ain't gonna need your teeth,
Won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew,
Nobody's gonna look at you.
Your arms are hanging limp at your side,
You legs got nothing to do,
Some machine's doing that for you.
Ain't gonna need no husband,
Won't need no wife.
You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too
If God's a-coming
He ought to make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say,
"Guess it's time for the Judgement Day."
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down and start again.
Whoa-oh-oh
I'm kinda wondering
If man is gonna be alive;
He's taken everything this old Earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing.
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew.
Now man's reign is through.
But throught eternal night,
The twinkling of starlight,
So very far away,
Maybe it's only yesterday...
Only a few comments on such a great prophetic song? Wow! This one needs to be reissued, if the world can stop listening to pop crap for just a minute.
@hangwire13 How is it 'prophetic' when it's merely speculative - and 50th grade speculation at that
@hangwire13 How is it 'prophetic' when it's merely speculative - and 50th grade speculation at that
You know, we're already up to 6565.
3535: because everything we do is influenced by what we recently saw on TV, which would be the pill.
4545: There's certainly nothing worth looking at anymore, because we destroyed it all
5555: Let's face it, machines do do everything these days
6565: Nobody marries anymore, and, oi course, test tube babies and clones
@inpraiseoffolly I can only hope you're being facetious because your comment is so ludicrously pointless and of the mark you'll probably disagree with me
@inpraiseoffolly I can only hope you're being facetious because your comment is so ludicrously pointless and of the mark you'll probably disagree with me
It seems that the song is truthful. We are losing jobs because of computers.
The GREAT summer of '69!
First time I heard this song I got hooked. While the lyrics can be seen as prophetic, in the 50 years or so since its release many of the prophesies are no longer part of fiction. I understand for the generations alive in the 60s it may have seemed as cloning and test tube babies would not happen in the next millennia. Yet today machines do a lot of the work for us and "our legs have nothing to do" since we drive or ride a bus, we seem to be loosing the ability to think for ourselves (even thought we do not take a pill with the days thoughts), we seem to follow the mass media and take their word for everything. I myself thought 20 years ago that walkie talkies were as close as we would get to the "beam me up Scottie" wireless devices (cell phones).
I think a part of the song is indeed about technology, altough, it's about love to. It's about 2 persons who, for whatever what reason, can't be together at this moment (distance?). The man his heart hurts because of that, he hopes they will find eatch other again when the are older and he hopes the woman will wait for him. He also thinks he will not survive the situation he's into (bad relationship?). But still hopes that everything is going to be okay at the end. (But throught eternal night,The twinkling of starlight,So very far away).
you guess you can wait longer?? What do you mean?
you guess you can wait longer?? What do you mean?
@prettycoat I thought the biggest part of this song was making a few dollars from people who'd think this was very perspicacious
@prettycoat I thought the biggest part of this song was making a few dollars from people who'd think this was very perspicacious
@prettycoat I thought the biggest part of this song was making a few dollars from people who'd think this was very perspicacious
@prettycoat I thought the biggest part of this song was making a few dollars from people who'd think this was very perspicacious
not certain, that's why i'm here...
what i got from this song is that its about how technology is getting too powerful and one day its basically gonna live our lives for us and then there wont be a point in life.
Ever since I heard this song at the end of a "Millennium" episode it's freaked me out, that's all I know.
Thanks for adding this rare gem, Novartza.