LAIBACH - In the year 2525

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

In the year 1994
War goes on just like before
War goes on, it never ends
War brings bigger dividends

In the year 1995
Brave new world is born to die
From total damage to damage limitation
Fear is the key to defend the nation

In the year 1996
There is no need for politics
Seeing life with unseeing eyes
Seeing man see through the disguise

In the year 1997
The boil bursts in the face of Heaven
Dragon tears washed away thy youth
Wash thy hands of eternal truth

In the year 1998
Why shut the door of the Open Gate
Rivers of people flow like blood
New race rises from the mud

In the year 1999
War destroys the last sky-line
A flaming cross appears in the sky
Man bows down as the bullets fly

Now it's been 2000 years
Man has cried a million 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

In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
We survive

In the year 3535

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[fibrilation1]

On which album is this song?

[PolarMedved]

N.A.T.O. from 1994

[gaseki]

It is and it is not. It's a song based on Zager and Evans' song. As it is the case with many covers made by Laibach (take Opus Dei or Geburt einer Nation). They sometimes make only delicate changes (like translation of One Vision/Geburt... or omission of some words in Opus Dei), and sometimes they write their own lyrics, as it was the case with "In The Year 2525". I believe both versions are great.

[dragmio]

This is live, studio version is better because Peter Mlakar "sings". :)

[pitakpetr]

@PolarMedved-it is american song 1969

[ljubite]

Have somebody the text or a link?

[mistergutsy19]

They are bad ass makes me wanna surviva a nuclear apycoplyps

[GolliwoggMusic]

Golliwogg APPROVES of this song.

[Skremlab]

All hail Negegamegedon! All Hail Kovach Munka!

[Deano647]

I have a 12" vinyl of their cover of The Rolling Stones 'Sympathy for the Devil' It has an awesome cover too (Google it) One of my buddies nicknamed them 'The German Brady Bunch'

[michaellahonta]

Sorry the for bad grammar and typos, due to budget cuts I am a example of what come from our public school system. I think California is 47th in the nation. America should be ashamed for their lack of priorities. I fear for the future of our children. Beware of the prison camps.

[michaellahonta]

Twenty years in the middle east, we have been there since was16 Now I am in my late 30's. This song is what is going to happen in our future, The economy is going to crumble and we are all going to die from starvation and world war, while the billionaires and the war mongers abandon the earth's 6 billion plus people on their depopulation mission.

[BlackPoodle12]

Poster iz Jugoslavije :D

I'm from Belgrade, it's a Yugoslavian poster :)!