Future Shock - Curtis Mayfield

Hey, little sister, where’s your brother?

See your mother standing on the soup line

God bless your father

Ain’t got the strength to be bothered

The almighty world hear me now

Was bound to weigh him down

We got to stop all men

From messing up the land

When won’t we understand

This is our last and only chance

Everybody, it’s a future shock

Future shock, future shock

Future shock, future shock

All worldly figures playing on niggers

Oh, see them passing

See how they’re dancing to the superfly

Oh, ain’t it wrong when you don’t know where we come from

Dancing in our youth

Dying at the truth, to get over

(Over, over, get over)

We got to stop all men

From messing up the land

When won’t we understand

This is our last and only chance

Everybody, it’s a future shock

Future shock, future shock

Future shock, future shock

The price of the meat

Higher than the dope in the street

Is it any wonder

For those with nothing to eat?

We got to stop all men

From messing up the land

When won’t we understand

This is our last and only chance

Everybody, it’s a future shock

Future shock, future shock

Future shock, future shock