The Future Now-Peter Hammill

[ti:The Future Now (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Future Now] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Future Now (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill [00:27.63]Here we are static in the latter half [00:32.90]Of the twentieth century [00:35.99] [00:38.46]But it might as well be the Middle Ages [00:41.98]There'll have to be some changes [00:43.97]But how they'll come about foxes me [00:49.44]I want the future now [00:55.04]I want to hold it in my hands; [01:00.30]All men equal and unbowed [01:05.54]I want the promised land [01:15.12]But that doesn't seem to get any closer [01:17.81]And Moses has had his day [01:22.05]The tablets of law are an advertising poster [01:25.88]Civilisation here to stay [01:29.82]And this is progress [01:33.65]You must be joking [01:37.59]Me I'm looking for any kind of hope [01:42.20]I want the future now [01:47.94]I want to see it on the screen [01:53.34]I want to break the bounds [01:58.68]That make our lives so mean [02:43.44]Oh blind blinded blinding hatred [02:46.75]Of race sex religion colour country and creed [02:50.87]These scream from the pages of everything I read [02:54.70]You just bring me oppression and torture [02:57.08]Apartheid corruption and plague; [03:00.04]You just bring me the R**e of the planet [03:02.52]And joke world rights at the Hague [03:05.59]Oh someday the Millennium [03:07.57]But how far is someday away [03:11.67]I want the future now [03:17.29]I'm young and it's my right [03:22.46]I want a reason to be proud [03:27.88]I want to see the light [03:33.46]I want the future now [03:38.95]I want to see it on the screen [03:44.19]I want to break the bounds: [03:49.47]Make life worth more than dreams