JUEVES - LYRICS ("In the Year 2525 – Zager and Evans")

- In the Year 2525 – Zager and Evans

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 lies.

Everything you think, do and say

is in the pill you took today.

In the year 4545

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 are hanging limp at your sides.

Your legs got nothing to do.

Some machine is doing that for you.

In the year 6565

ain't gonna 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, whoa.

In the year 7510

if God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then.

Maybe he'll look around himself and say

guess it's time for the Judgement day.

In the year 8510

God is gonna shake his mighty head then

He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been

or tear it down and start again, woah woah.

In the year 9595

I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive.

He's taken everything this old earth can give

and he ain't put back nothing, woah woah.

Now it's been 10,000 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 thrive

In the year 3535

ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.

- Notas: Esta canción fue escrita en el año 1968, y es una visión apocalíptica sobre lo que le espera a la raza humana si sigue aumentando su dependencia con la tecnología. Con el paso de los años el ser humano ve como de modo progresivo va perdiendo capacidades físicas e incluso emocionales hasta que se llega a un punto donde la vida ya carece de sentido y Dios mismo considera que es el momento de dar paso al juicio final y poner punto y final a la existencia del hombre sobre la tierra.

- 1. “…is through …” = “To be through” es el giro que se usa para indicar que se ha pasado o superado una fase de algo.

- 2. “…twinkling …” = El verbo “to twinkle” se usa para hablar de la luz de las estrellas, coches, etc cuando debido a su lejanía dan la sensación de titilar.
- 3. “…thrive…” = “To thrive” es un verbo que se usa para hablar de prosperar, crecer o desarrollarse, y el cantante lo usa para indicar que en el punto de partida de la canción (el año 2525) el ser humano aun tiene esperanza, aun tiene la posibilidad de dar un giro para bien.