De Volta Para o Futuro

It was around the year 3000
And the world was more or less
What Nostradamus predicted
The cold human, in a robotic walk
An empty look, a chaotic world
And we acting as if everything was great
Closer to the end and farther from the next
In the cybernetic era
Sadness was a disease
And joy was a synthetic drug
I saw genetic manipulation
Defining before birth, our being, our aesthetics
Skeptical humanity, challenging ethics
As if we were nothing
But a mere arithmetic formula
I saw religions creating panic, satanic rituals
The creation of other Islamic states
Mechanical men, with chips in their abdomens
They looked like it, but didn't act like men
I saw flying cars guided by GPS
The extinction of thousands of other species
I saw cities being swallowed by the seas
With the disappearance of the polar ice caps
I saw wars being fought everywhere
I saw the creation of new nuclear weapons
I saw the end of the Amazon, Brazil becoming a colony
Planet Earth was its own Babylon

How much longer
Until we realize
And if someone could hear me
If they could see what I saw
Would they understand

The dream of conquering space lost its charm
We conquered other planets
Enslaved other races
I saw cameras even in the sky
The real Big Brother
As described by George Orwell
Children no longer learned names like Hamlet
They were taught by smartphones and tablets
There were no more poems or books
And social life was replaced by apps
We followed the cold nature of the Machiavellian prophecy
And the world's largest industry
Continued to be the military
Oh, how much arrogance
In the name of progress we killed God
With the sharp knife of greed

So tell me, who guides us love or ego?
The sign that said follow? Or were we the blind ones
We lost the essence of what makes us human
Money and technology made us insane
When did we lose control of the world
How could we let this hole get so deep
How? Can you call this evolution
If buildings grow
But love doesn't
My God, I beg you
If this is the future then throw a meteor at us
To end this suffering
Because I have a bad feeling
That this wasn't a dream
But a journey through time!

How much longer
Until we realize
And if someone could hear me
If they could see what I saw
Would they understand