In the year 2525 ..

[rdfreak]

The year was 1969 (ten years before I was born). Zager And Evans performed a well-known hit called "IN THE YEAR 2525".
While it may have got to number 1 in a few countries, I actually had never heard of the song before, until Dad played it to me about ten (or so) years ago. i was immediately taken in; I was fascinated. I didn't think much of the voice/s to be honest, but the words, along with the melody, had such an eary feel to it! It was prediction at its finest! What will exactly happen all those years from now? will any of it, as Scientific as it is, be real? Even back then, they predicted how the world was going! look at it now!
So, not long after the first day i heard the track, I went and downloaded it. Now, if i want to scare myself, I will play it.
Just then, i grabbed the lyrics from google to share in my LJ, just in case anyone hasn't heard it before. The other main reason is that when I listen to songs, I always will listen to the melody first before the words. So even though I had done my best to listen to the words of the song, I thought I'd make sure I had done it properly.


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, or say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to do
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs not nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long black tube

In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgement day

In the year 8510
God's 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 wondering if man's 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 the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

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 or say
Is in the pill you took today ....(fading

(taken from http://www.lyricsondemand.com/z/zagerandevanslyrics/intheyear2525lyrics.html).
Note, I wasn't sure when this was performed until I looked here on wikipedia.

til next time, RdFreak

Comments

I love that song

[loscha.livejournal.com]

I heard it when I was very young (about 7 or 8) on a compilation LP my Dad had - which I now have somewhere.

[quirkofonic.livejournal.com]

Wow, I must have been about four years old when I heard that song on the radio, and this was when it actually came out! I'm not sure what I thought when I heard it, I was only four, but even when I was little I knew the song was about somebody's predictions of the future. Funnily enough, another song that I thought was in the same veine was "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" by Jonathan King. Have you heard that one? I think it came out in 1966, so I was much too little to care much about music, but I must have heard it a few years later. I thought it was literally about everyone abandoning the planet earth and going to the moon and describing what was left of the earth and the people who stayed behind. Much later, I heard some interview footage that was included on an album he produced, namely "From Genesis to Revelation" by Genesis. This was their very first album, and it sure was different from even the progressive rock they were going to do in just a couple years. But anyhow, it seems Jonathan King was spoofing the deep and relevant lyrics of the time, what with Bob Dylan and others writing serious pop songs and all, but in the midst of all the heaviness he still wanted to rhyme the words "moon" and "June" as kind of a goof.

[samari76.livejournal.com]

I love that song. I first heard it when I was 13, and was very intrigued by it. I wonder if it's really going to be like that. I don't know if I'd want it to be. That's just scary.