Remember the Future
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Remember the Future
(Ken Ficara) Copyright © 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