thorbiorn said:
DGF said:
Zager & Evans "In The Year 2525"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhNM2K8cmU8
There are a few videos set to the music: fx
This one shows scenes from the movie by Fritz Lang; Metropolis
Another video set to the music and lyrics, but sung by an Australian singer, Jane Rossi (from what I understand and produced in Germany in 1983): https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Xb2aYmzVo8 It is a sensual expression of the content, but some crucial points come across like the ratio between truth and lies and the possibility of destruction by comets.
The music in the above video itself is maybe taken from this video version (also Jane Rossi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uxh6UnkMOs where the video art is abstract, more settled.
The first two videos offer interpretations of the lyrics which tried to investigate possible futures when it was written in 1969.
Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525 Lyrics
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
[...]
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head then
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
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
Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
Recently found this song. Sums up human (d)evolution pretty much - when considering the State of Things at present moment, bolded what moved me most:
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You 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
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
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
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday