With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), we thought this song — even though 56 years old — was so relevant to today! | By Lee Vowell, Audio Phix | The 1960s were a strange decade. Rock and roll truly made its bones, and production values on records significantly improved. Where would the world be without the likes of the Rolling Stones and Beatles, for instance?
But since there was so much new music, there were a bunch of recording artists who would be around one day and gone the next. This led to an abundance of one-hit wonders.
Some were quite good. Others, we need to ask what people in the ’60s were thinking. The tracks were, at times, awful. But in the case of the five that follow, at least they were memorable.
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#5: Zager and Evans – “In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)” (reached number one in the US in 1969)
The 1960s were weird. People were enamored with space travel, and technology was beginning to boom. Computers were around, but nowhere near what they are like in the 2020s. If someone produced a different-sounding tune about something new, it could become a hit song.
This track is a bummer, though. Ultimately, mankind is overwhelmed by the technology it creates. Maybe if we had stopped at making fire, we would have been fine. Too late now.
Lyrics to In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain’t gonna need your teeth, won’t need your eyes
You won’t find a thing to chew
Nobody’s gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin’ limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin’ to do
Some machine’s doin’ that for you
In the year 6565
You won’t need no husband, won’t need no wife
You’ll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God’s a coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He’ll look around Himself and say
Guess it’s time for the judgment day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He’ll either say I’m pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again
In the year 9595
I’m kinda wonderin’ if man is gonna be alive
He’s taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain’t put back nothing
Now it’s been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man’s reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it’s only yesterday
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Richard Lee Evans
In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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