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Remember the FutureCopyright © 2004 Ken Ficara
Ken Ficara: Vocals, guitars, harmonica
Produced by Ken Ficara
Recorded at home
When I was young they used to talk about the future
All the time on TV
But we're stuck here in this same old present
Nothing's the way that they said it would be
Weren't we gonna be living in space
And sailing the canals on Mars?
Squeezing all our food from convenient tubes
And flying off to work in our hovercars
Where are the...
Needle-nosed rockets with the big tail fins
The Pan Am shuttle to the Moon
I want a fold-up car like George Jetson's
But the future got old too soon
When they finally retired the Concordes
Their drooping noses looked wistful
We used to fly faster than the speed of sound
Now we wait to show ID to security officials
Tomorrowland was yesterday's news
So they closed it down to redo it
The house of the future was boarded up
No more gold lame jumpsuits
And no more...
Needle-nosed rockets with the big tail fins
The Pan Am shuttle to the Moon
I want a fold-up car like George Jetson's
But the future got old too soon
Cook and heat with atom power in your giant housing tower
Paper clothes and plastic shoes, instant printouts of the news
Friendly robots bring you food, computers talk right back to you
Brand-new cities, no more slums, everybody travels on those...
While we dreamed about that plastic future
The flesh & blood present got worse
2001 has come and gone
And the odyssey was right here on Earth
You know I miss that good old future
Everything was simple back then
We could believe in a bright tomorrow
And every night we could dream again
Of those...
Needle-nosed rockets with the big tail fins
The Pan Am shuttle to the Moon
I want a fold-up car like George Jetson's
But the future got old too soon