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The Future Aint What it Used to Be
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A performance by Sean McGaughey is hard to define Over the past year, Sean has been focusing on his songwriting. The results were recorded live in concert in December 2003. They are here for you to enjoy.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #227
Peak in subgenre #30
Author
Sean McGaughey
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© 2003 Sean McGaughey
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July 19, 2004
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MP3 4.0 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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The Future ain’t what it used to be ©2003 S. McGaughey Music by Sean McGaughey, Lyrics by Sean McGaughey and Brian Rawlins When I was a young boy I often would roam Through the basement of grandpa’s home I once found a stack of old magazines. Popular Mechanics fueled my dreams. I would read about homes of the future How we’d all fly around in our cars We'd live in apartments under the sea and vacation on Venus or Mars. Chorus So where the hell is my jet car? Nobody lives under the sea. I could sure use a robot to do all my chores. Waiting for peace, an end to the wars. (And) we're still fighting hunger and illness While children live on the streets. If this is the 21st century, It don't look like the future to me, The Future ain’t what it used to be We knew for certain that cancer Would soon be just stars in the sky With the first giant steps upon the moon There was nothing we couldn’t try. They said that computers and robots would be at our beck and call We all would be healthy even folksingers wealthy millionaires one and all (Chorus) (Bridge) We thought that the future was so far away Turned out to be just the same yesterday. And we blame the poor for getting poorer all the time Is this the future they had in mind?
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