The Future Now Lyrics

The Future Now lyrics

Here we are, static in the latter half
of the twentieth century
but it
might as well be the Middle Ages,
there'll have to be some changes
but
how they'll come about foxes me.
I want the future now,
I want to hold it
in my hands;
all men equal and unbowed,
I want the promised
land.

but that doesn't seem to get any closer,
and Moses has had his
day...
the tablets of law are an advertising poster,
civilisation here to
stay
and this is progress?
You must be joking!
Me, I'm looking for any
kind of hope.
I want the future now,
I want to see it on the screen,
I
want to break the bounds
that make our lives so mean.

Oh, blind,
blinded, blinding hatred
of race, sex, religion, colour, country and
creed,
these scream from the pages of everything I read.
You just bring
me oppression and torture,
apartheid, corruption and plague;
you just
bring me the rape of the planet
and joke world rights at the Hague.
Oh,
someday the Millennium!
But how far is someday away?
I want the future
now
I'm young, and it's my right.
I want a reason to be proud.
I want
to see the light.
I want the future now,
I want to see it on the
screen,
I want to break the bounds:
make life worth more than dreams.