Songs that predicted the future, either intentional or not

Wouldn't It Be Nice

 

Amazing, actually that whole song is kind of chilling. Forgot about that one.

I think Lennon must have the record on this subject, so to speak - it's amazing how many times he refers to shootings, guns, etc. And how can anyone forget his last radio interview, when he said something like "the only way my career will stop is if I'm dead and buried"

 

Not to mention "Dirty Laundry" from Don Henley and "TV Age" from Joe Jackson as well

 

What do you think all that white smoke is when they elect a new pontiff?

 

He actually even predicted in an interview that "some mad guy" would kill him.

 

“Between the Wheels” by Rush (also “Losing It” but that happens to everyone if they live long enough)

 

I don’t know about songs but I’ll never forget Joe Strummer’s INCREDIBLY prophetic speech at the US Festival in 1980 in Devore, CA to a virtually all white crowd, mostly from OC, Riverside, and other sterile areas of SoCal at the time.

If there's going to be a future, it's gotta be from all different directions, not just one way down the road.

Those people in East LA aren't going to live there forever!

 

I wouldn't say it predicted the future, but Laurie Anderson's "O Superman" certainly takes on a different feeling when heard after 9/11/2001.

 

There's a home demo of "I'm Losing You" which is even worse: he goes on for quite some time about the blood just "oozing out" and how he can't stop the bleeding. It's on YouTube somewhere, but I'd rather not listen to it.

He also said in one of his last interviews that dying was just like "getting out of one car and into another." He was shot just after getting out of a taxi, and a little later he was put in the back of a police cruiser, which is where he died.

 

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades

 

"What In The World??"---got the years wrong, though....
2032
Housewives shock in blue
What in the world is it coming to
What in the world
2033
Cannabis in tea
What in the world. Acid is free
What in the world
If daddy could see today
he'd be turning in his grave
If mummy could see the way
The boys and girls and the manner in which
they talk to their parents
2034
Women fight the wars
Men are too bored, they're scrubbing floors
Men are too bored
They're staying at home
doing the chores
What in the world
Do you remember when this life
was in perspective and the grownups were respected
They'd give up a seat on the bus
Open your door with no fuss

 

Yoko Ono’s Walking On Thin Ice is even more harrowing.

 

"I may cry some day
But the tears will dry whichever way"

 

I hate to break it to you, but here is the original of Get It While You Can:

 

Pink Floyd The Wall recorded 8 years prior to the deconstruction. Not only about the wall coming down also a synopsis of our educational system direction.

 

Husker Du "Divide and Conquer"

Well they divided up all the land
And we've got states and cities
Cities have their neighborhoods
And more subdivisions
There's countries divided by walls
Oceans and latitudes
And longitude, longing to find out
Just what they're missing, whoa
They're lots of area codes
And nine digit zip codes
Secret decoder ring codes
Arteries, shopping nodes
We'll invent some new computers
Link up the global village
And get AP, UPI, and Reuters
To tell everybody, news news
We'll be one happy neighborhood
Spread out across the world
Who's going to stop that burglar
From breaking in my house
If he lives that far away, wha
We'll be just like old friends
No means to your ends
The police state is to busy
The neighborhood's getting out of hand
Big Brother on every wall
Muzak plays in all the halls
Empires see the rise and fall
They divide, conquer...

 

Wilco - Jesus Etc.

The Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album seemed to have a bad omen about it. First there was the great boondoggle with their record label, when Time Warner merged with America Online in 2001 and the group was subsequently dropped. This led them to simply offer the whole album on live stream from their website. However, if they hadn't been dropped, the release date would have been September 11, 2001, which, as anyone can tell you now, would have been less than opportune. Warner Brothers affiliate Nonesuch Records eventually signed them in November of 2001.

Jesus, don't cry, you can rely on me, honey
You can combine anything you want
I'll be around, you were right about the stars
Each one is a setting sun

Tall buildings shake
Voices escape singing sad, sad songs
Tuned to chords, strung down your cheeks
Bitter melodies turning your orbit around

 

According to Bill Nelson, life in the air age isn't all the brochures say--it's grim enough to make a robot cry. I'm not sure if they're crying or not, but robots are all over the place these days.

 

“The Boy in the Bubble” by Paul Simon, released in 1986:

It was a slow day
And the sun was beating
On the soldiers by the side of the road
There was a bright light
A shattering of shop windows
The bomb in the baby carriage
Was wired to the radio

These are the days of miracle and wonder
This is the long distance call
The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
The way we look to us all
The way we look to a distant constellation
That's dying in a corner of the sky
These are the days of miracle and wonder
And don't cry baby, don't cry
Don't cry

It was a dry wind
And it swept across the desert
And it curled into the circle of birth
And the dead sand
Falling on the children
The mothers and the fathers
And the automatic earth
These are the days of miracle and wonder...

It's a turn-around jump shot
It's everybody jump start
It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts
Medicine is magical and magical is art
The Boy in the Bubble
And the baby with the baboon heart

And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
These are the days of miracle and wonder....

 

Change in the Weather by John Fogerty. Sounds like New Orleans during Katrina. Hurricane, levees busting, reach out and pluck you, take you for a ride (helicopter rescues), edge of the river it's an ugly scene, ............

Change in the weather, change in the weather,
Somethin's happenin' here.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
People walkin' round in fear.
Uh huh, you better duck and run,
Get under cover 'cause the change has come.
Storm warning, and it looks like rain,
Be nothin' left after the hurricane.
This here's a jungle, ain't no lie,
Look at the people, terror in their eyes.
Bad business comin', can't be denied,
They're running with the dogs, afraid to die.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
Somethin's happenin' here.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
People walkin' round in fear.
Uh huh, you best believe it's true,
The levee's busted, badness comin' through.
Oh no, there ain't no place to hide,
Reach out and pluck you, take you for a ride.
Sea of frustration, take everything in sight,
Won't be no blessing if we make it through the night.
Down on your knees, go ahead and pray,
But every demon has to have his day.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
Somethin's happenin' here.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
People walkin' round in fear.
Well! Oh, God!
High noon, I can't believe my eyes,
Wind is ragin', there's a fire in the sky.
Ground shakin', everything comin' loose,
Run like a coward but it ain't no use.
Edge of the river, it's an ugly scene,
People gettin' pushed, people gettin' mean.
The change is comin' and it's gettin' late,
Ain't no survivin', and there ain't no escape.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
Somethin's happenin' here.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
People walkin' round in fear.
Oh!
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
Somethin's happenin' here.
Change in the weather, change in the weather,
People walkin' round in fear.
Well! Oh, no!

 

It's The End of the World As We Know It - R.E.M.

 

The Who "Tattoo"

 

Prince - "Big City"



"That's it." at the end of the last track on his last album, followed by nearly a minute of silence.

His catalogue opens with this:

"For You" »

 

Kate Bush’s Deeper Understanding is a perfect example:



As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend

 

The press vastly over hyped this storm. I live just outside of New Orleans and the rainfall was much less than predicted.