Name: Where Are All The Jetpacks? (Single Mix)
Duration: P00H04M17S
Description: A song about growing up and the dissolution of hope. This is the "official" version of a song originally published in my song sketchbook series.

Where Are All The Jetpacks? (Single Mix)

by The Real Michael Lee

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A song about growing up and the dissolution of hope. This is the "official" version of a song originally published in my song sketchbook series.

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When we were young
It was all about fun
The future looked so bright
All you can do
It's just up to you you will make things right
So much promised
It didn't happen did it

Where are all the jetpacks
Where are all the flying cars
Where is the vaccine
to cure all disease
Where is world peace

Where are all the robots
To befriend and watch our children
No, this doesn't seem right
When did we lose our fight

Look at me look at you
what are we to do
It's all bad news
And we still don't use
the metric system
Maybe our kids
Will reap all the benefits

When we have the jetpacks
When we have the flying cars
When there's a vaccine
to cure all disease
When there's world peace

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released November 6, 2020
Written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Michael Radtke. Cover photo by Guilherme Stecanella from Unsplash.

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The Real Michael Lee Des Moines, Iowa

Hailing from the creamy center of the United States (AKA Iowa), The Real Michael Lee writes songs with a largely genre-agnostic approach that jumps from fingerpicking folk to garage rock to a type of electronic dance sound.

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