A lady from the future materialized in front of me
She said take my hand and I'll show you
The way it's going to be
Having nothing better in mind I thought I'd
See what I could see
And I stepped through the portal to the year
Ten thousand and eighty three
And I saw the sandy coloured sky
Bring down coffee coloured rain
Everyone wore tanned jumpsuits
All the houses were the same.
And in a coffee shop she asked me
For my impressions of her age, and I said
"I've seen the future and it's beige
I've seen the future and it's beige"
So I took her through the portal
To my life and to my time
And showed her all the colours
Still there for all to find
And I felt her spirit move
And her head start to unwind
Then I took her back to the sixties
And it really blew her mind
Every person was a colour
Every colour was a song
Our differences were special
And the magic still was strong
When I asked if she was going back
To her own time and place
She shook her head and said
"I've seen the future and it's beige
I've seen the future and it's beige"
Now we're living in a multi-coloured house
On a dark monochrome street
We're trying to change the future
By voting with our feet
We've cancelled all the papers
And thrown out the TV
We're not going to let a beige world
Paint our individuality
So if you give your world to Starbucks,
Sell your future by the pound
Then one by one your colours
Are sure to fade to brown
And I've seen it start to happen
In my time and in my town
When you feel your just a number
On a wheel that's spinning round
And when shopping malls are wall to wall
Like a corporate computer game
And they've airbrushed all our differences
So we all look the same
So dare to be different,
And celebrate the strange
Because - I have seen the future
You've seen the future
We've seen the future, and it's beige
We've seen the future, and it's beige
It's time for a change
There's still time to change
We're not to late
We can change the future
We don't all have to be the same