We are living in the future
I’ll tell you how I know
I read it in the papers
15 years ago
We’re all driving rocket ships
And talking with out minds
Wearing turquoise jewelery
And standing in soup lines
We are standing in soup lines
- John Prine, Living in the Future
That album came out in 1980, at the end of the Carter Administration, so the “standing in soup lines” imagery is understandable.
In the future, we call soup lines “SNAP”.
:)
I met John Prine a couple times. Nice guy. Died too soon.
He was a mailman before his music career.
L