13) The Future Soon- Jonathan Coulton 9-12-07

Recorded live at the Paul Gleason Theater 9-12-07

Last week I left a note on Laura's desk
It said I love you signed anonymous friend
Turns out she's smarter than I thought she was
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
And I'm alone during couple skate
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
But I know that I'll forget the look of pity in her face
When I'm living in my solar dome on a platform in space

Cause it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here

I'll probably be some kind of scientist
Building inventions in my space lab in space
I'll end world hunger I'll make dolphins speak
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Building them one laser gun at a time
I will do my best to teach them
About life and what it's worth
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth

Cause it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already

Here on Earth they'll wonder
As I piece by piece replace myself
And the steel and circuits will make me whole
But I'll still feel so alone
Until Laura calls me home

I'll see her standing by the monorail
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I'll say I'm sorry, she'll say it's not your fault
Or is it?
And she'll eye me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
She will scream and try to run
But there's nowhere she can hide
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride

Well it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here

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[supercrem909]

I have been playing guitar for about a year and half and to me it looks like he's using chords for most of his songs and he just has different strum patterns or arpeggios (Playing individual strings while your hand is in the shape of a chord) but i cant find tab anywhere either lol

[Gle3nn]

Go to jonathancoulton(dot)com then go to the music page. Find the song, click on info(magnifying glass), there you will find tabs, lyrics and other related stuff.

[haku155]

i love joco hes great he should tour Europe and come here (n.Ireland)

btw all those great comments you guys left got thumbed up for being such great j.c fans to :D

[Gle3nn]

He has a tour already planned and mostly set.

Oct 24: Dublin

Oct 25: Glasgow

Oct 29: Manchester

Oct 30: London - Shepherd's Bush Empire

Oct 31: Nottingham - Game City

Nov 1: Oxford

That's it so far

[DarthWario]

This is actually my fave song...I can actually relate, in a way...

[AdvancedWarfare]

this guy is great love this song!

[th3musyk]

i love this sng lol. nerd anthem

[EvansRowan123]

@Goblineng No, I mean I relate to the stuff about the moonbase and the robot warriors.

[Goblineng]

@EvansRowan123 Nope, just means your part of the club called humanity. we always want to be where we're not, when we get there we wish we could turn and go back to what we had. you are always exactly where you should be, if you can accept that you'll be in for a pretty good future

[chewbaccapasto]

this is the greatest and best song ever concieved

[MrCheeseWire1]

I have that model of guitar! :D Yay! Also, I can play all of JoCo's songs! :D

[TheMorphite]

@TheTailor25 w00t.

[EvansRowan123]

Is it bad if i can relate to this?

[TiberiousWalker]

@supercrem909 What you want is a website called ultimate-guitar(dot)com. It is one of the best sites for guitarists to learn new songs, they have tabs, chord/lyrics, power tabs, guitar pro's, bass and even the odd drumming section. There are quite a few of JoCo's songs on there, you may have to try a few versions but all in all it's a great site and often has some accurate tabs. Enjoy.

[gh4ever101]

@DarthWario Same here....

[Unahim]

Kinda normal if you also sing at the same time that you don't make the guitar music too hard, so chords are perfect :p