Good Time Coming - Momus

There’s a good time coming, for the human race

Eleven billion humans with a smile across our face

If we could just stop eating, stop our wars and crime

Stop making our babies, at least for ten years' time

Sure, it may get bloody for a while

But smile and there’s no limit to the fun

If not, on the other hand, we’re done

There’s a good time coming, lots of stuff to do

We’ll find a cure for dysentery, stop dying on the loo

Drinking dirty water, fighting for the shade

Chasing the mosquitoes from the garden to the glade

If we can act collectively instead of for ourselves

I really see no limit to the fun

If not, on the other hand, we’re done

Oh there’s a good time coming, with nothing to resent

Equality for everyone except the 1%

The full pursuit of happiness, especially for the sad

What madman in his right mind wants the things he’s always had?

If we can act in fairness instead of out of greed

I really see no limit to the fun

If not we are obviously done

If we can work for everyone instead of just for pricks

Thinking with our heads instead of with our dicks

Step out of our vehicles, straddle mountain bikes

Ride them up the mountains and go for mountain hikes

Standing in the European sun with no obvious limit to the fun

If not we are obviously done

Oh there’s a good time coming if we can get off drugs

Forget about celebrities and murderers and thugs

Stop watching television, swigging from that sewer

Start listening to philosophers who sided with the poor

If we can trust the government to fix what’s going wrong

There’s no logical limit but the sun

But if not, flip us over, we are done

There’s a good time coming, especially for the young

The ones who’ll really reap the harvest that’s to come

Of course there’ll be backsliders and grumblers on the way

But it will all be beautiful upon that sunny day

If we can turn back deserts like good old King Canute

We’ll get our just desserts, what super fun

If not, in our desert, we are done

Oh there’s a good time coming, everyone agrees

When the North Pole is inhabited and Hell begins to freeze

When prejudiced policemen with 3D-printed guns

Rattle them at random like amusing kettledrums

If we can pull the finger out and get our ass in gear

I really see no limit to the fun

But if not, we are fucked and we are done

If we can turn back deserts like good old King Canute

We’ll get our just desserts, what super fun

If not, in our desert, we are done