Future/Now

By MC5

On High Time

Released on July 6, 1971

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The screeching, useless martyrs

Hanging naked upon the cross, yeah

They would have you believe

By the lies they shriek that all is lost, yeah

Forget their logic of desperation

Utilize your imagination

The future's here right now

If you're willing to pay the cost yeah!

The power crazy leaders

Who control your very fate (huh!)

They would twist your will

Steal your life and sell your soul away, yeah

If you're drifting or wandering lost

You're the perfect target for the double cross

Freedom's yours right now

If you rule your own destiny, yeah

Here he comes, cosmopolitan enemy, yeah

Yes and here they come, interstellar diplomats, yeah

Some say the truth is meant to be hidden

Others maintain that nothing is forbidden

The key to the mystery...

And as our mind explodes in a post atomic dawn

The future breaks like a tidal wave, engulfing everyone

Confusion and chaos, trauma of birth

A strange new day for the people of the earth

Traditions burned away by the rising sun