And if you survive till 2005People did believe this in the 1960s – the junk science was settled.
I hope you're exceedingly thin
For if you are stout you will have to breathe out
While the people around you breathe in
People pressing on my sides
Is something that I hate
And so is sitting down to eat with only
Little capsules on my plate.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Pink Floyd as futurologists
In their 1968 single “Point Me at the Sky”, Henry McLean builds a “beautiful flying machine” and invites his girlfriend to join him in space and escape the horrors to come when there would be standing room only on Earth and no food:
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They did. They also beleived a whole lot of things about the year 2525, from what I recall.
Don't recall the details, only the whiny annoyance.
"In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find. . .
"Everything you think, do, or say
Is in the pill you took today"
and on and on. Yes, possibly the whiniest song ever.
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