In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
From In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans
Luddite
Robots that clean floors
and pools
Robots that assist with
surgery
Robots that search for
explosives
Robots in all areas of
manufacturing
Robots unpiloted as
drones
Self-driving cars
Self-regulating thermostats
Self-guiding weapons
Self-regulating houses
It won’t take until the year 5555
The time is already here
What will we have left to do
A machine can do it all for us
I am rapidly becoming a Luddite
In the summer of '69 during my vacation,
Zager and Evans made a prognostication.
They did it with a big hit song.
I hope to God they will be wrong.
If any of us will be alive,
in the year of 2525.
If mankind finds a way to survive,
they just might find
a world of a different kind.
I am not looking towards the scenes
when we will be controlled by machines.
A test tube is no place to start life.
What these guys predicted can cause much strife.
Instead, I am willing to hope for an earth,
where there will be ubiquitous peace and mirth.
We need not look toward a bleak day
if we live our lives in a more natural way.
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