Welcome to the Future

Album: American Saturday Night (2009)
Charted: 42
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  • When I was ten years old
    I remember thinking how cool it would be
    When we were going on an eight hour drive
    If I could just watch TV
    And I'd have given anything
    To have my own Pac-Man game at home
    I used to have to get a ride down to the arcade
    Now I've got it on my phone

    Hey, glory, glory, hallelujah
    Welcome to the future

    My grandpa was in World War II
    He fought against the Japanese
    He wrote a hundred letters to my grandma
    Mailed them from his base in the Philippines
    I wish they could see this now
    The world they saved has changed you know
    'Cause I was on a video chat this morning
    With a company in Tokyo

    Hey, everyday's a revolution
    Welcome to the future

    Hey, look around it's all so clear
    Hey, wherever we were going, well we're here
    Hey, so many things I never thought I'd see
    Happening right in front of me

    I had a friend in school
    Running back on the football team
    They burned a cross in his front yard
    For asking out the homecoming queen
    I thought about him today
    And everybody who's seen what he's seen
    From a woman on a bus
    To a man with a dream

    Hey, wake up Martin Luther
    Welcome to the future
    Hey, glory, glory, hallelujah
    Welcome to the future Writer/s: Brad Paisley, Charles Christopher Dubois
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Spirit Music Group
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