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By the Time I Will Have Gotten to Phoenix: the use of the future perfect in song lyrics

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I can't think of a single example of this. anyone?

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:11 (eleven years ago)

I Will Have Survived.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:12 (eleven years ago)

fyi: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_perfect#English

― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 14:12 (eleven years ago)

five months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD21FG2Nmcw

someday you'll look in to her eyes
then there'll be no goodbyes
and yesterday will have gone
and you'll find yourself in another space

― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Saturday, 29 August 2015 20:47 (eleven years ago)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xmiy9REAFhI

Not until all men are dead
Will you die
And life will start anew
And you will have traveled
A million times your own time

― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 August 2015 21:41 (eleven years ago)

... Harry Nilsson, "Salmon Falls"

― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Saturday, 29 August 2015 21:43 (eleven years ago)

sorry that is just how i will have felt

― sarahell, Saturday, 29 August 2015 22:55 (eleven years ago)

Come as you are
As you were
As you wi-ill have been

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Saturday, 29 August 2015 23:18 (eleven years ago)

lol sarahell

― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Saturday, 29 August 2015 23:49 (eleven years ago)


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