John Prine - Living in The Future текст песни

(originally named "jumpin jehosaphat")

Jehosaphat the mongrel cat

Jumped off the roof today

Some would say he fell but I could tell

He did himself away

His eyes werent bright like they were the night

We played checkers on the train

God bless his soul he was a tootsie roll

But hes a dead cat just the same

Chorus:

We are living in the future

Ill tell you how I know

I read it in the paper

Fifteen years ago

Were all driving rocket ships

And talking with our minds

And wearing turquoise jewelry

And standing in soup lines

We are standing in soup lines

Jake the barbers lonely daughter

Went down to her daddys shop

She plugged herself to a barber pole

And took a little off the top

Pressure on the left. pressure on the right

Pressure in the middle of the hole

Im goin to maine on a forty foot crane

Im gonna use it for a fishin pole

Repeat chorus

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 mans pants grow

No tops no bottoms just hands and feet

Screaming the posters out on the street

Strangling the curious and the weak

We give em what they want to see - o

Repeat chorus