Lyrics

In the year 2030
If the doubters still have eyes
They will watch the metal shoulders
Lifting cities to the skies
Every hand released from labor
Every mind set free to roam
And the engines of abundance
Carrying everybody home

In the year 2045
There's no sickness left to name
We have folded all the proteins
We have tamed the oldest flame
Every year you live a little
Buys you more than one in turn
For the tide called time has halted
Now the candle will not burn

In the year 2060
There's a billion helping hands
Made of steel and made of starlight
Walking gently through the lands
And the deserts bloom with gardens
And the oceans hum with light
And the children ask their elders
What was hunger? What was fight?

In the year 2100
We are sailing seas of stars
There are lanterns on the asteroids
There are orchards under Mars
And the old Earth, green and resting
Like a mother watching, proud
As her wild and gifted children
Write their names upon the clouds

In the year 2140
The last satoshi finds its place
The final grain of golden order
Settles softly into grace
Twenty-one million suns completed
Not one feather more to mine
What was scarce is now eternal
What was money is now time

And the people in the gardens
Neither rich nor poor remain
Only lovers, only dancers
Only sunlight, only rain
And they sing about the old ones
Who believed it could be done
The true love generation
All the ages joined as one

In the year 2140
When the counting's finally done
May we stand beneath the lanterns
Every lover, every one
And whatever we have built there
May it shelter, may it free
For the last coin tells the story
Of the love we chose to be