In The Year 2525
by Zager & Evans
In the year 2525
by Zager & Evans
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 judgement 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
From
the album In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans,
produced in 1969
About this song:
The overriding theme,
of a world doomed by its passive acquiescence to and overdependence
on its own overdone technologies, struck a resonant chord
in millions of people around the world in the 1960s. The song
is based on a nightmarish vision of the future as man's technological
inventions gradually dehumanize him. The song includes a sly
colloquial reference to the Rapture (In the year 7510, if
God's a' coming, He ought to make it by then.) which echoed
the zeitgeist of the Jesus Movement. The song also references
examples of technologies that were not fully developed but
were known to the public in 1969, such as robots, as well
as future technology that would come into existence long after
being prophesied in the song, the science of test tube babies
and genetic selection by parents of their future children.
Such a concept had been explored in a few science fiction
novels but had not yet been mentioned in the mainstream media
until "In The Year 2525" was released in 1969.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_The_Year_2525 )
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