& so I work for a future time & so I work for a future time When the depressed conditions of the present Will become more acute & desperate Perhaps then some unity for the people A chance for real structural change That unlike the mistakes of the past Doesn’t create gulags & newspeak, (we already have a surveillance state) & doesn’t interfere with the freedom of the mind Where universities will again be public Where we'll have enough hospital beds Where no corporations own God’s rain Where people feel less under attack from one another Where working is not so coercive Where people are less alone Where there are homes for everybody & enough to eat & drink Where people are warm in the wintertime Then maybe, we can work out what it means to be human So that we can better cooperate That we can better, more intimately, communicate Where we are allowed diversity of ideas Where we are allowed freedom of speech ...