The Future Now

The Future Now - Peter Hammill

Here we are static

In the latter half

Of the twentieth century

But it might as well be the middle ages

Have to be some changes

But how they'll come about foxes me

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

But that doesn't seem to get any closer

And moses has had his day

The tablets of law are an advertising poster

Oh 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

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

Someday the millennium

But how far is someday away

I want

I nium

Take the alousing

I want to see the light

I want the future now

I want to see it on the screen

I want vallon wake a ne con and bounds

Make life worth more than dreams