Artists whose songs predicted their future careers

Fred Neil ("I've been searching for the dolphins in the sea...") became a marine biologist.

Adam Faith ("What do you want if you don't want money?") became a financial advisor.

I've heard Shakin' Stevens ("Ain't got time to fix the shingles, ain't got time to fix the floor") became a student landlord.

Others?

Ian Curtis ("hangman looks round as he waits, cord stretches tight then it breaks") hanged himself

Will Smith ("Men in Black") became a Men in Black

Oasis really did become a "Rock and Roll Star"!!

Paul McCartney ("when I'm 64") actually did reach the age of 64. However John Lennon ("happiness is a warm gun") did not.

This is a Systematic Investigation I'm Conducting, Honestly - Pete Townsend

Gary Glitter ("Do you wanna touch me") asked kids this question many times later in life

several years after recording 'hit me with your rhythm stick', ian dury was involved in a nasty accident during a visit to vic firth company warehouse where he was buried under a deluge of falling drumsticks

Paul Weller has been on the Circle Line after closing time, since Boris made the trains run very late.

Haha good one.

Joey Ramone ended up being sedated.

Judas Priest's drummer Dave Holland was so nuts about breaking the law he was irl jailed for the attempted rape of a 17-year-old boy.

Malcolm Owen wound up dead

Phil Rudd apparently hired a hitman, but those Dirty Deeds were probably not Done Dirt Cheap.

Claude Vivier's last work, the unfinished Glaubst du an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele?, abruptly ends on a description of his being stabbed by a young man in the Paris metro. He died after being stabbed by a young man in his Parisian apartment. Close enough?

The Housemartins, on their track "Freedom" sang ...

"F.R.E.E.D.O.M.
They locked us up once
So they'll do it again

C.H.A.I.N.E.D.
They locked up my friends
Now they're coming for me"

... and drummer Hugh Whitaker ended up being locked up for six years for assaulting a former business associate with an axe and setting fire to his house on three occasions.

Andrew W.K. once wrote a song called "It's Time to Party". He would later attend several parties.

Lou Reed, in his song "Average Guy", sang...

"I worry that my liver's big and it hurts to the touch"

... and ended up developing liver cancer.[98] In May 2013, he underwent a liver transplant at the Cleveland Clinic.[99][100] Afterwards, on his website, he wrote of feeling "bigger and stronger" than ever, but on October 27, 2013, he died from liver disease[101] at his home in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 71. He was cremated and the ashes were given to his family.[102][103]

after his rap career stalled, flavor flav of public enemy ("cos i know the time and i'm gettin mine") went on to become the voice of the speaking clock in wisconsin

Neil Young "Splash" (unreleased)

One day I'll marry / The android from Blade Runner / The girl who played the mermaid / Nothing could be funner