The Future Doesn't Need You

Go far across the great ocean
To a place somewhere on a remote island
There’s a proving ground for a new society
Shareholders of a new mankind

While the end is coming for you by and by
Because the time has come to say goodbye
You’ll never stem the tide
Who can save us from ourselves?

Unless you’ve got a transcendent mind
You don’t have a future in our mankind because
The future doesn’t need you at all
Unless you are living inside of my cloud

I couldn’t even help you if I wanted to now because
The future doesn’t need you at all
Men at one with their technology
Were content to follow a pathology

Soon the world was reassembled for their code
Rhythms decided by their new machines
With a vision surpassing all your darkest dreams
And while your best and brightest would save a few

We had a plan for these times, why hadn’t you?
The march of progress fed by an appetite
A revolution, it cannot be mollified
There is no contest, no need
To qualify foregone conclusions