The Future Now-Peter Hammill

[ti:The Future Now] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:In The Passionkirche Berlin 1992] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.25]The Future Now - Peter Hammill [00:02.28] [00:27.12]Here we are static [00:29.33]In the latter half [00:31.45] [00:32.00]Of the twentieth century [00:35.63] [00:37.17]But it might as well be the middle ages [00:40.67]Have to be some changes [00:42.43]But how they'll come about foxes me [00:46.37] [00:47.68]I want the future now [00:51.05] [00:53.14]I'm young and it's my right [00:56.15] [00:58.18]I want a reason to be proud [01:01.17] [01:03.23]I want to see the light [01:06.86] [01:16.85]But that doesn't seem to get any closer [01:19.49]And moses has had his day [01:21.52]The tablets of law are an advertising poster [01:25.68] [01:26.24]Oh civilisation [01:28.45]Here to stay [01:29.76]And this is progress [01:31.26] [01:33.54]You must be joking [01:35.00] [01:37.20]Me I'm looking for any kind of hope [01:40.55] [01:44.05]I want the future now [01:47.91] [01:49.58]I want to see it on the screen [01:52.40] [01:54.60]I want to break the bounds [01:57.36] [01:59.54]That make our lives [02:01.45]So mean [02:03.07] [02:41.02]Oh blind blinded blinding hatred [02:43.32]Of race sex religion colour country and creed [02:46.23]Scream from the pages of everything I read [02:49.79]You just bring me oppression and torture [02:51.98]Apartheid corruption and plague [02:54.55]You just bring me the rape of the planet [02:56.82]And joke world rights at the hague [02:59.60]Someday the millennium [03:01.44]But how far is someday away [03:07.37]I want [03:08.33] [03:12.18]I nium [03:12.95] [03:16.88]Take the alousing [03:18.40] [03:22.07]I want to see the light [03:25.38] [03:26.49]I want the future now [03:30.35] [03:31.57]I want to see it on the screen [03:34.29] [03:35.88]I want vallon wake a ne con and bounds [03:39.83] [03:40.80]Make life worth more than dreams