In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans (One Hit Wonder)

In the Year 2525 je pop/rock pjesma koju je 1964. napisao američki gitarist Rick Evans, a godine 1968. izdao kao singlicu vlastitog pop dueta Zager and Evans. Singlica, koju je izdala kuća Truth Records, se ispočetka distribuirala samo u Texasu, ali je njen uspjeh potakao snimanje novog izdanja iz 1969. koje je distribuirala RCA Records, a koja je postala veliki hit.

Naslov pjesme doslovno znači "Godine 2525.", a tekst za to i godine u razmacima od 1010, daje uznemirujuća predviđanja koja se tiču dehumanizirajuće tehnologije i iscrpljivanja zemaljskih resursa. Tema i futuristički karakter pjesme su korespondirali s duhom vremena koje je, s jedne strane, obilježilo slijetanje na Mjesec, ali i sve veća briga o budućnosti čovječanstva. Iako je postala jedna od najpoznatijih pjesama svog vremena, to je bio ne samo jedini hit Zager and Evansa, nego i njihov jedini proboj na top-liste.

Kasnije je često obrađivana, pri čemu je jednu od verzija snimio Laibach za album NATO. Često se rabi u filmovima i TV-serijama SF žanra, pri čemu je najpoznatiji Alien 3, odnosno TV-serija Cleopatra 2525, gdje je služila i kao glavna tema.

In the Year 2525

In the year 2525

If man is still alive

If woman can survive

They may find

In the year 3535

Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies

Everything you think, do, and say

Is in the pill you took today

In the year 4545

Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes

You won't find a thing chew

Nobody's gonna look at you

In the year 5555

Your arms are hanging limp at your sides

Your legs got not nothing to do

Some machine is doing that for you

In the year 6565

Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife

You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too

From the bottom of a long glass tube

In the year 7510

If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then

Maybe he'll look around himself and say

Guess it's time for the Judgement day

In the year 8510

God is gonna shake his mighty head

He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been

Or tear it down and start again

In the year 9595

I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive

He's taken everything this old earth can give

And he ain't put back nothing

Now it's been 10,000 years

Man has cried a billion tears

For what he never knew

Now man's reign is through

But through the 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

They may find

In the year 3535

Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies

Everything you think, do or say

Is in the pill you took today... (fading...)