lirik lagu john prine - living in the future (live at the other end)
[intro]
this is a song about, uh
living in the future
actually it’s about, it’s about, uh, those magazines that
you know the sunday—
the magazines they stick in the sunday paper
like every, like twice a year or so they put in a thing, “this is what it’s gonna look like in ten years”
everything looks like j~pan, you know?
“this is what it’s gonna look like,” you know?
and they been doing that for years and
the only thing they were right about was the ’59 el dorado, that was it
you know what i mean? that was the only thing that looked like it was in the future
and it was much too heavy to take with you
ah, what’s it called?
oh, this is called “jumping jehosaphat”
[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
well, 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
and we’re all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds
and wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines
we are standing in soup lines
[verse 2]
jake the barber’s lonely daughter
went down to her daddy’s shop
plugged herself to the barber pole and took a little off the top
pressure on the left, pressure on the right
pressure in the middle of the hole
i’m going to maine on a forty foot crane
i’m gonna use it for a fishing pole
i’m going to maine on a forty foot crane
i’m gonna use it for a fishing pole
[chorus]
we are living in the future, i’ll tell you how i know
i read it in the paper fifteen years ago
and we’re all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds
and wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines
we are standing in soup lines
[verse 3]
old sarah brown sells tickets down at the all night picture show
where they grind out s~x and rate it with an “x”
just to make a young man’s pants grow
no tops, no bottoms, just hands and feet
scream the posters out on the street
strangling the curious and the weak
we give ’em what they wanna see~o
we give ’em what they wanna see~o
[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 are standing in soup lines
we are standing in soup lines
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