They say the future beckons like a gleaming mirror key
And hope mankind will come of age in the 21st Century
When we've networked our computers and streamlined all our cars
Technology will carry us to heights beyond the stars

Our bombs no longer nuclear, our wars no longer cold,
We reap the global consequence as love is put on hold
There's nothing like indifference to take away the fear
That this old world is teetering or that the end is near

Hey, let's not get excited if fifty million die
That's less than one percent, you know, so there's no need to cry
Don't think about pollution, or people on the dole
Or people who have money, but seem to lack a soul

Compassion's obsolete now, the state meets all our needs
Except the need for meaning on which every spirit feeds
Both rich and poor are reaching out for wealth that's from above
For insight and for wisdom, for happiness and love

The masses know they're powerless to change their humble fate
If only they could taste the power of learning how to wait
Their time will come, as surely as the day pursues the night
An age will dawn when those with faith will enter their birthright

For being born again into a kingdom based on power
Entitles every saint to come of age upon that hour
When Christ will call his followers to meet him in the air
To witness his parousia, His coming back to here

Then every eye will see him, and every knee will bow
And every tribe will weep and mourn because the time is now
Now is the time to heed the call, then it will be too late, 
To mourn the One whom you have pierced by apathy or hate
So take in this perspective, and don't be so afraid
Because it's in the present that our future life is made.

Greg Annett, May 1994