In The Future

In the future everyone will have the same haircut
and the same clothes.
In the future everyone will be very fat from the stachy diet.
In the future everyone will be very thin from
not having enough to eat.
In the future it will be next to impossible to tell
girls from boys, even in bed.
In the future men will be ’super masculine’
and women will be ’ultra-feminine’.
In the future half of us will be ’mentally ill’.
In the future there will be no religion or spirtualism of any sort.
In the future the ’psychic arts’ will be put to practical use.
In the future we will not think that ’nature’ is beautiful.
In the future the weather will always be the same.
In the future no one will fight with anyone else.
In the future there will be an atomic war.
In the future water will be expensive.
In the future all material items will be free.
In the future everyone’s house will be like a little fortress.
In the future everyone’s house will be a total entertainment centre.

In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very happy.
In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very filthy.
In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very heathly.
In the future tv will be so good that
the printed word will function as an artform only.
In the future people with boring jobs will take pills
to relieve the boredom.
In the future that no one will live in cities.
In the future there will be mini-wars going on everywhere.
In the future everyone will think about love all the time.

In the future political and other decisions
will be based completely on opinion polls.
In the future there will be machines which
will produce a religious experience in the user.
In the future there will be groups of wild people,
living in the wilderness.
In the future there will only be paper money
which will be personalised.
In the future there will be a classless society.

In the future everyone will only get to go home once a year.
In the future everyone will stay home all the time.
In the future we will not have time for leisure activities.
In the future we will only ’work’ one day a week.
In the future our bodies will be shrivelled up
but our brains will be bigger.
In the future there will be starving people everywhere.
In the future people will live in space.
In the future no one will be able to afford tv.
In the future the helpless will be killed.
In the future everyone will have their own style of way-out clothes
In the future we will make love to anything, anytime, anywhere
In the future there will be so much going on
that no one will be able to keep track of it.

- David Byrne

Ik was een enorme Talking Heads fan in de jaren 80.
Nu nog wel trouwens.
Ik had alle platen.
En ook die van frontman David Byrne solo.
En de plaat: the music for the knee plays was nooit verkrijgbaar op CD.
Tot nu dus.
De Cd heeft de titel:The Knee Plays
Er staan extra tracks op en zit ook een dvd bij.
Voor de verzamelaar/liefhebber.
Wat ik ook wel ben, of zo.

Maar eigenlijk vind/vond ik alleen dit nummer echt goed.
Maar dan wel weer goed genoeg om heel die CD te kopen.
Raar nummer met een TOPTEXT.