Happy Happy Happy

1999 A.D. More than a generation away And yet, dreams travel faster than light And even now, scientists and planners Are shaping the lives of our children Who will live in the 21st century I remember a past Who told us all the future Rocketships and flying cars Other people lived on Mars Boys and girls all look the same In PVC like leather Auto controls to clean the house And even change the weather Pills replaced the sex act We all felt so much better All the bikes and monorails Electricity that never fails Sterilized and neutralized Living in our bubble Robocops with laser beams To dispel any trouble Happy, happy, happy Never ever crying We never had a problem With state assisted dying Bland on bland and hand in hand The killing or demeaning A better life with little strife And very little meaning I loved your shiny uniform Moulded round your unibreast Alan Jones for mobile homes And unisex for dress We took a trip round Venus And ate by intravenous Saturn had the answer Of every space romancer Where did all our hopes go? All our naive dreams go? Were they just science fiction stories? We'll never really know We tried to teach the world to sing We only war and famine bring So kill them with your laser beam And turn them into Soylent green Happy, happy, happy Never ever crying We never had a problem With state assisted dying Bland on bland and hand in hand No killing or demeaning A better life with little strife And very little meaning Science fiction stories Told us of our future Science fiction stories Told us of our future Science fiction stories Told us of our future Science fiction stories Told us of our future And even now, scientists and planners Are shaping the lives of our children Who will live in the 21st century