When Is the Future? - VNV Nation

A stranger in the crowd

Treading fire after dark

Lost in a city

Pulsing to a sound

Of the spirit and soul

A city that is breathing

Living through the cables

Alive across the wires

Faces without names

Playing devils and angels

Lit up by the strobes

Moving hypnotised

I caught your reflection

In the neon on glass

An electric silhouette

Against a static sky

It’s a beautiful dream

It’s a beautiful life

It’s just a reflection

A world that must survive

We’re children of the past

Who look beyond today

Designing the present

So when is the future

We live in a dream

Keeping visions alive

It’s just a reflection

A world that never dies

An image we create

In our image we design

It’s a beautiful life

So when is the future

Time moves so fast

In a single direction

Fighting with a present

Racing from the past

We’re searching for something

That can never satisfy

The reality of answers

When lives are on the line

I’ve waited a lifetime

For the age of wonder

A place that I remember

In a splinter of time

A stranger in a strange land

Caught in the flow

Still searching for answers

Among the neon lights

It’s a beautiful dream

It’s a beautiful life

It’s just a reflection

A world that must survive

We’re children of the past

Who look beyond today

Designing the present

So when is the future

We live in a dream

Keeping visions alive

It’s just a reflection

A world that never dies

An image we create

In our image we design

It’s a beautiful life

So when is the future

It’s a beautiful dream

It’s a beautiful life

It’s just a reflection

A world that must survive

We’re children of the past

Who look beyond today

Designing the present

So when is the future

We live in a dream

Keeping visions alive

It’s just a reflection

A world that never dies

An image we create

In our image we design

It’s a beautiful life

So when is the future