Pop: Futuristic Nostalgia

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 . . .

As the song goes on, machines are doing all of man's work for him by 5555. artificial insemination is common place by 6565, and a thousand years later God is thinking maybe it's time for Judgment Day.

This futuristic ballad sounds as though it were composed by a computer at the Rand Corp., but In the...

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