Living in the Future

[Verse 1]

Jehosaphat the mongrel cat

Jumped off the roof today

Some would say he fell, but I could tell

He did himself away

His eyes weren't bright like they were the night

We played checkers on the train

God bless his soul, he was a tootsie roll

But he's a dead cat just the same

[Chorus]

We are living in the future

I'll tell you how I know

I read it in the paper

Fifteen years ago

We're all driving rocket ships

And talking with our minds

And wearing turquoise jewelry

And standing in soup lines

We're standing in soup lines

[Verse 2]

Jake the barber's lonely daughter

Went down to her daddy's shop

She plugged herself to the barber pole

And took a little off the top

There was pressure on the left, pressure on the right

Pressure in the middle of the hole

I'm goin' to Maine on a forty-foot crane

I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole

[Chorus]

We are living in the future

I'll tell you how I know

I read it in the paper

Fifteen years ago

We're all driving rocket ships

And talking with our minds

And wearing turquoise jewelry

And standing in soup lines

We're standing in soup lines

[Verse 3]

Old Sarah Brown sells tickets down

At the all night picture show

Where they grind out sex and they rate it with an "X"

Just to make a young man's pants grow

No tops, no bottoms, just hands and feet

Screaming the posters out on the street

Strangling the curious and the weak

Hell, we give 'em what they want to see-o

Yeah, we give 'em what they want to see

[Chorus]

Oh, we are living in the future

I'll tell you how I know

I read it in the paper

Fifteen years ago

We're all driving rocket ships

And talking with our minds

And wearing turquoise jewelry

And standing in soup lines

We're standing in soup lines

We're standing in soup lines