22nd Century

[Verse 1] There is no Oxygen in the air Men and women They've lost their head Ashen faces Layers they stain Guests and governors walk in this lane When, when tomorrow becomes yesterday And tomorrow becomes eternity When the sun, when the sun goes away, the end When love is taken and there are no more babies to be born And there is no way And there is every way When there is no way There is every way [Chorus] Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century It will be, oh [Verse 2: Kate Stables] Twenty-first century was here and gone And the twentieth century was the dawn The beginning of the end was the twenty-first when the twentieth century was at an end Nineteen-ninety was the year when the plague struck the Earth Nineteen-eighty-eight was the year men and women struck out for freedom And blood letting was the thing that was People said there was no God, and there was no reason, and there was no cause Nineteen-seventy-two was right all the way Drums and bugles blasting all through the day Right-wing, left-wing, middle of the road, sidewinder, back-swinger, backlash, whiplash Race stockings, red stockings, liberation of women, liberation of men, everybody carrying a heavy load [Chorus: All] Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century It will be, oh Oh [Verse 3] Liberation of animals Prevention of cruelty to animals from man and beasts Flying on, and flying, flying things Revolution of music by tree you love and lives Sex change, change, change Man is woman, woman is man Even your brain is not your brain Your heart is plastic things that can be bound There is no more diseases that can be caught Man became the thing that he worships Man truly became his God There was today that Man and Woman truly became God Man became his God Man became his evil Man became his God And then became his devil [Chorus: All] Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century It will be, oh Oh [Verse 4] Young women without money caught Big dogs living in marble arms Young men die in spring Boys of seven fall in love Give that lady fair a diamond ring Wedding, wedding, wedding, wedding, or waiting in this thing Don't want creature Don't want no preacher man preaching Give your hand and take my hand This is better than anybody's preacher man Truth, truth is an old folk It says seven years, seven years so I'm told Don't sway me over, don't try to sway me over today It's all in a day, your day will go away [Chorus: All] Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century Tomorrow will be the twenty-second century It will be, oh Oh