[Verse 1]
Jehoshaphat the mongrel cat
Jumped off the roof today
Some would say he fell, but I could tell
He did himself away
His eyes weren't bright like they were the night
We played checkers on the train
Well, God bless his soul, he was a tootsie roll
But he's a dead cat just the same

[Chorus]
We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper fifteen years ago
Now we're all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines
We're standing in soup lines

[Verse 2]
Well, Jake the barber's lonely daughter
Went down to her daddy's shop
She plugged herself to a barber pole
And took a little off the top
There was pressure on the left, pressure on the right
Pressure in the middle of the hole
I'm goin' to Maine on a forty foot crane
I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole
[Chorus]
We are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper fifteen years ago
Now we're all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines
We're standing in soup lines

[Verse 3]
Old Sarah Brown sells tickets down
At the all-night picture show
Where they grind out sex and they rate it with an "X"
Just to make a young man's pants grow
No tops, no bottoms, just the hands and feet
Screaming the posters out on the street
Strangling the curious and the weak
Here we give 'em what they want to see
Here we give 'em what they want to see

[Chorus]
Oh, we are living in the future, I'll tell you how I know
I read it in the paper fifteen years ago
Now we're all driving rocket ships and talking with our minds
And wearing turquoise jewelry and standing in soup lines
We're standing in soup lines
We're standing in soup lines