Welcome to the Future Lyrics

Lyric discussion by _Immortal_ 

Cover art for Welcome to the Future lyrics by Brad Paisley

Hmmmmm What is the Martin Luther comment referring to?

It's talking about Martin Luther King Jr. When it talks about the man with a dream, it's referring to the speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

its referring to the fact that we essentially have the technologies to wake and heal the dead.

You people are THAAAAAT dense? Study history. Spend some time on wiki.

He had a friend(black) in school. They (KKK) burned a cross in his front yard(threatening to lynch him) For asking out the homecoming queen (white) ... From a woman on a bus (Rosa Parks, refusing colored section) A man with a dream (MLK jr, leader of the african american civil rights movement)

African americans can vote, own guns, own property, are judges, ceo's, president. Something that was mere fantasy in his time.