[Verse 1] Fifty years ago the future lived in books We dreamed about the moon and wondered what it looked A phone was on the wall the world was far away We waited for the news that came a day too late And look at us now How did we get here The impossible yesterday is ordinary this year [Chorus] Fifty years a blink of time From wires and static and satellites in the sky We change the way we live the way we dream the way we see [Verse 2] Fifty years and here we are With little glowing worlds inside our cars We reach beyond the blue And somehow we're still asking what comes next to you [Bridge] We put a man on screens and put the screens in our hands We carry all the world's knowledge like grains of desert sand We built machines that talk and cameras that can fly We made computers dream in pictures and taught them how to write [Chorus] Fifty years a blink of time From cassette tapes to streaming every song online We change the way we live the way we dream the way we see Fifty years and here we are Sending voices through the night from anywhere We reach beyond the blue And somehow we're still asking what comes next [Outro] Maybe that's the strange thing After everything we've done The future keeps arriving Before we're ready for the sun Fifty years just one lifetime And yesterday became another world in mine So much has disappeared so much we never knew we'd need Fifty years and still we dream Still looking for the next impossible thing And somewhere up ahead another fifty years awaiting to begin
