In the Year 2525 je pop/rock pjesma koju je 1964. napisao američki gitarist Rick Evans, a godine 1968. izdao kao singlicu vlastitog pop dueta Zager and Evans. Singlica, koju je izdala kuća Truth Records, se ispočetka distribuirala samo u Texasu, ali je njen uspjeh potakao snimanje novog izdanja iz 1969. koje je distribuirala RCA Records, a koja je postala veliki hit.
Naslov pjesme doslovno znači "Godine 2525.", a tekst za to i godine u razmacima od 1010, daje uznemirujuća predviđanja koja se tiču dehumanizirajuće tehnologije i iscrpljivanja zemaljskih resursa. Tema i futuristički karakter pjesme su korespondirali s duhom vremena koje je, s jedne strane, obilježilo slijetanje na Mjesec, ali i sve veća briga o budućnosti čovječanstva. Iako je postala jedna od najpoznatijih pjesama svog vremena, to je bio ne samo jedini hit Zager and Evansa, nego i njihov jedini proboj na top-liste.
Kasnije je često obrađivana, pri čemu je jednu od verzija snimio Laibach za album NATO. Često se rabi u filmovima i TV-serijama SF žanra, pri čemu je najpoznatiji Alien 3, odnosno TV-serija Cleopatra 2525, gdje je služila i kao glavna tema.
In the Year 2525
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms are hanging limp at your sides
Your legs got not nothing to do
Some machine is doing that for you
In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube
In the year 7510
If God's a-comin' he ought to make it by then
Maybe he'll look around himself and say
Guess it's time for the Judgement day
In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down and start again
In the year 9595
I'm kinda wondering if man is gonna be alive
He's taken everything this old earth can give
And he ain't put back nothing
Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through
But through the eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday
In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies
Everything you think, do or say
Is in the pill you took today... (fading...)
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