[Verse 1] There's a question that we need to ask tonight About the future and how we make it right Is utopia a place we're trying to reach Or is it a way that we can learn to teach A destination waits at journey's end But a method shows us how to bend The rules that keep us locked in present time Let's explore this paradigm [Chorus] Destination versus method, which way do we go Theory closing futures, but can fiction make them grow Queer futurity breaking chains of normal time Three questions guide us to futures we define Method not destination, opens up the way Fiction fights the theory that keeps hope at bay Future's not just straight lines, there's another kind These seminar questions free the future mind [Verse 2] Muñoz had a vision of a different way Where queer futurity could have its say Against the straight path that we're told to take Heteronormative time is what's at stake The structure says that future's just one road But queerness breaks that binding code Not just about who loves who tonight It's about whose future gets the right [Chorus] Destination versus method, which way do we go Theory closing futures, but can fiction make them grow Queer futurity breaking chains of normal time Three questions guide us to futures we define Method not destination, opens up the way Fiction fights the theory that keeps hope at bay Future's not just straight lines, there's another kind These seminar questions free the future mind [Bridge] When scholars say the future's lost and gone Can storytellers prove that they are wrong Fiction builds the bridges theory burns Shows us that the future wheel still turns Not utopia as a place to find But utopia as a state of mind [Verse 3] So here's the answer that we're searching for Three pathways to tomorrow's door Utopia's a method, not an end Queer time shows how futures bend And fiction fights when theory says we're through These questions make the future new [Outro] Seminar questions light the way ahead Future's not lost, just misread Method, queerness, fiction's might Three keys to tomorrow's light
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