[Verse 1] Remember when we dreamed of flying cars And cities on the moon by two thousand five We used to paint tomorrow with our hopes so far But somewhere we lost faith the future's still alive The grand stories that once showed us the way Have crumbled into fragments, led us all astray [Chorus] Time is collapsing, space is shrinking fast Present and future, nothing seems to last Waning historicity, we've lost our memory Pastiche replaces parody, no more originality The future's fading, grand narratives are gone Time keeps fragmenting, we can't move on [Verse 2] Lyotard saw it coming, said the big tales would end No more master stories to help us comprehend Science, truth, and progress, once our guiding light Now scattered into pieces in the postmodern night We sample and we copy but we've lost the punch Pastiche without purpose, just a surface hunch [Chorus] Time is collapsing, space is shrinking fast Present and future, nothing seems to last Waning historicity, we've lost our memory Pastiche replaces parody, no more originality The future's fading, grand narratives are gone Time keeps fragmenting, we can't move on [Bridge] Schizophrenic temporality Moments disconnected, floating free No more linear time to see Past and future lost at sea Space compressed, time confused History's thread has been diffused [Verse 3] Global connection makes the world feel small But temporal direction, we can't sense at all Parody needs a target, something to critique But pastiche just assembles, shallow and weak The future once was promised, now it's just a blur Time-space keeps compressing, nothing's as we were [Chorus] Time is collapsing, space is shrinking fast Present and future, nothing seems to last Waning historicity, we've lost our memory Pastiche replaces parody, no more originality The future's fading, grand narratives are gone Time keeps fragmenting, we can't move on [Outro] Where did tomorrow go? Lost in fragments, don't you know Grand narratives fade away In the postmodern haze today
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