Predictions in lyrics that did not come true

Thus, in Pink Floyd's "Point Me At the Sky":

If you survive to 2005
I hope you're exceedingly thin
For if you are stout you will have to breathe out
While the people around you breathe in

beware the savage jaw
of 1984

not a bad year tbh

Hendrix, not a merman in '83, alas.

To date, Elton John has not killed himself or caused a little suicide.

(For himself, anyway; who knows, maybe someone offed themselves to his music somewhere.)

"this song will fade out"

"we are E-Male/we just can't fail"

Daddy what's it gonna be like in the year 2000?

Well, sweetheart, for your sake I hope it'll
all be peaches & cream. But I'm afraid the end
time is near. The cataclysmic apocalypse referred
to in the scriptures of every holy book known to
mankind. It will be an era fraught with boundless
greed & corruption where global monetary
systems disintegrate leaving brother to kill
brother for a grain of over-cooked rice. The
nations of the civilized world will collapse under
the oppressive weight of parasitic political
conspiracies which remove all hope & optimism
from their once faithful citizens. Around the
globe, generations of polluters will be punished
for their sins. Unshielded by the ozone layer they have
successfully depleted, left to bake in the searing
naked rays of light. Wholesale assassinations
served to destabilize every remaining government,
leaving the starving & wicked to fend for
themselves. Bloodthirsty renegade cyborgs created
by tax dodging corporations wreak havoc. Pissed off
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androids, tired of being slaves to a godless &
gutless system, where the rich get richer &
the poor get fucked over and out, unleash total
world wide destruction by means of nuclear
holocaust, annihilating the terrified masses,
leaving in its torturous wake nothing but vicious,
cannibalistic, mutated, radiated, and horribly
disfigured hordes of satanic killers, bent on
revenge, but against whom? There are so few left
alive. Starvation reins supreme, forcing unlucky
survivors to eat anything & anyone in their
path. Massive earthquakes crack the planets crust
like a hollow egg shell, causing unending volcanic
eruptions. Creatures of the seven seas, unable to
escape the certain death upon land, boil in their
liquid prison. Disease then circles the earth,
plagues & viruses with no known cause or cure
laying waste to whatever draws breath, and
human-kind, having proven itself to be nothing more
than a race of ruthless scavengers, fall victim to
merciless attacks at the hands of interplanetary
alien tribes who seek to conquer our charred
remains. This is Extinction Level Event, The Final
World Front. And there is Only, One, Year, Left.

[Little Girl:]
Wow, that's cool, I can't hardly wait!

[Dad:]
You don't have to, because here it is...

England/Scotland World Cup records 1970-present

In nineteen hundred and seventy-five,
all the people rose from the countryside,
locked together hand in hand all through this unsteady land,
to move against you government man, do ya' understand... etc. etc.

Jefferson Airplane 'War Movie'

Spirit, "1984"

Someone will be waiting for you at your door
when you get home tonight
Ah yes he's gonna tell you darkness gives you much more
than you get from the light

Casting my mind back, I don't remember this happening even once to me in 1984.

Tom Robinson Band, "Winter of 79"

They stopped the Social in the spring
And quite a few communists got run in
And National Service come back in
In the winter of '79

He was right about the 50p pint though.

He got the most important issue right

"1999" to thread!

But I did party like it was 1999 in 1999

"I took a trip to the year 3000
We had outsold Michael Jackson
Everyone bought our seventh album..."

Nice try, boys.

The Busted one was always going to struggle, to be fair.

I always thought 7 albums in 1000-odd years was a bit fucking lazy tbh

A hard rain didn't fall to my knowledge.

Busted may be right. Hard to tell. 3000 has not yet happened. :)

xxp <insert Scott Walker joke>

Anybody who thinks that the one with the big face from Busted is going to abandon the Fight Stars to do some desperate, hollow-eyed Busted reunion in about five years is clearly an idiot.

or OTM.

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm156/Blader5489/thats_the_joke.jpg

and so is that.jpg

"You're gonna die before you see a black president"
--Traditional Methods, "Falling Forward" (2005)

Stereolab "Laisser-Faire" - "I can feel it more and more, within 10 years we'll have a war"

I guess the question of whether or not Souls of Mischief will be chilling from '93 until infinity is still up in the air.

http://www.elrockers.org/disco/artwork/album/big/africa_must_be_free_by_1983_1.jpg

Sadly, of all White Witch's predictions, even the rather unambitious "Dad still smokes weed" didn't come true in a widespread way in 2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFu9umT4eNY

A bunch of Busta Rhymes' 90s songs to thread.

Busted may be right. Hard to tell. 3000 has not yet happened. :)

Although, it has to be added, if my great-great-great-granddaughter is fine in 3000, she must be goddam old by then!

Stereolab "Laisser-Faire" - "I can feel it more and more, within 10 years we'll have a war"

― Maltodextrin

lol came here to post this one but if you think about it this one isn't too far off in its prediction. Song was released 1992 and by 2002 the US war against Irak was already brewing.

Camu Tao's verse on El-P's "Accidents Don't Happen" fortunately does not reflect my experiences:

It's the year 2010, you can say what you want
But I'll bet if you light this blunt, dummy, the feds'll come runnin'
Lock you up, lock you out, you ain't tryin' to listen
Cameras in your food, dude, look they're trying to listen
Lock you up, lock you out, we got bugs in the house
We're being monitored, they know we got thugs in the house
Don't light your blunt, bitch, they'll hit you with a switch
Hit you with a beam, hit you in the brain, make you go totally insane

Dedspite the Rezillos, 2000 A.D. happened.

How about this one, from the psykick psychic MES in 1980?:

"The date was 2010, all England was a university town, all you could get was wine..."

Warren Zevon has a bunch of these:

And if California slides into the ocean like the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I pay my bill

"Are you gonna go my way?"

nope.

Stereolab "Laisser-Faire" - "I can feel it more and more, within 10 years we'll have a war"

― Maltodextrin

lol came here to post this one but if you think about it this one isn't too far off in its prediction. Song was released 1992 and by 2002 the US war against Irak was already brewing.

― Moka, Monday, 10 May 2010 17:58 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Um, the War in Afghanistan started in October 2001 and is still going.

Or did I miss something?

seriously, there was war aplenty within the years 1992 - 2002

i don't think dr. dre had his own island by the year 2000

seriously, there was war aplenty within the years 1992 - 2002

Here is a handy list in fact:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_1990-1992

Oops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_1990-2002

I guess the question of whether or not Souls of Mischief will be chilling from '93 until infinity is still up in the air.

tbf, they've not exactly been grafting in '94-2010, so they're on course.

Bad Religion's "Ten in 2010" predicted a global population of 10 billion this year; they were only off by about 3 billion.

"Are you gonna go my way?"

nope.

A question is not a prediction!