Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525

Here's a music video I cut together with footage from the classic apocalyptic sci-fi film Metropolis, combined with sci-fi folk song In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans. I really found them fitting together in a dystopian transhumanist meets Aldous Huxley's Brave New World kind of way. What awaits humanity after the intense technological and biological developments set in motion? If we ever get there? Thea von Harbou had some intensively accurate visions of the future. And Fritz Lang did the visual masterpiece. Not to forget Brigitte Helm and her impressive acting. All this is now a classic topic about the future of humanity. In this video I wanted to concentrate the idea, the message and the visions of the future. With the classic one hit wonder song and outstanding vintage film footage.

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LYRICS

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535

Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510
If God's a-coming, He oughta make it by then
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
"Guess it's time for the Judgement Day"

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say, "I'm pleased where man has been"
Or tear it down, and start again

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin' if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing

Now it's been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday

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[sanjindumisic]

Yeah! Uploaded on this day 10 years ago 2014. So happy to see so many appreciate the blend of two masterpieces over the years! 🎶📽 Next up 2025 😄

[dennistilley]

I’m 76 and I listen to this music every day. We old people grew up in the best of times. Wish I could go back to those days !!!!

[plmorton]

Still a perfect song. Man's emphasis on technological advancement while neglecting his moral growth is stunning.

[marshamcgill]

Remember it palting on the radio in 1969..still listening February 2024😊

[zoltanm]

50 years old music and 100 years old video they're a perfect match!

[albertbroadfoot]

I'm 60. I listened to this song in the 60's, and now... here we are!

[Julie-ibti]

When I was a child of the 60s this song was so far into the future it didn't seem relevant, but things appear to be progressing so fast now that it's scary.

[grantgilbert]

Anyone else here in 2024 thinking Zager and Evan’s were actually giving us a prophetic warning?

[johnmckell]

I am 63yrs old and I remember listening to this song as a child. I just simply loved this song...It had something in it...It was the truth about our future...Is it not so today and its 2021...

[VisorView]

I am 66. When this was released it was a fantasy vision of a far off future. Who could have imagined that everything prophesised in the song would become a reality within60 years. Stunning visuals.

[KevinSchwinkendorf]

The 1927 movie Metropolis had special video effects that were way ahead of it's time. Excellent use of scenes from the movie along with the music!

[Scrapper]

This is the scariest song ever written, very haunting and prophetic

[herbsHA]

No better song can describe the times we live in right now.

[robertboeger]

My late father cried over this wonderful song...would catch him singing along ..miss you dad

[chuyhighman]

I’m 68yrs & STILL enjoying this video 🎧🗣️📲🔈💞❣️💕

[dylanshackleton]

The idea of humanity making it to 2525 is the most optimistic thing I’ve heard in a long while.

[h.wagner]

This was a masterful pairing of two dystopian classics. The scary thing is that as I was growing up, they were just Sci-Fi visions of a possible future that would never arrive. Now, near the end of my own life, I can see those days arriving.

[johngolofit]

I remember listening to this song as a 13 year old back during the Summer of 1969. 51 years have passed awful fast and Man is crying a million tears...

[yongkim]

This was the song that was playing when we took my brother to catch
his transport to Nam at McCord air base!

[luxxeond]

The fact that a movie from 1926 depicts robots/androids and such topics as this is mind-blowing. Way ahead of its time.