21st Century featuring Capsule by Michael Nesmith

video from the Prelinger archives, music Capsule by Michael Nesmith from the album Infinite Rider On The Big Dogma. Nez's music available at www.videoranch...
lyrics:
Set the groove, set the mood
Check out what's on the tube
Close the day, time to play
Put the sounds on the stereo
Drift away
Drift away
Drift away
Drift away
Drift away
Hello people a hundred years from now
It may not make much difference but I'll say it anyhow
Let me tell you of the planet and what we're doing now
It really is bizarre enough to make me take it slow
There are cartoon creations made of people and of lines
And they dance around the TV and they dance around our minds
There are a bunch of different holy men pointing different ways
Don't think, do think, watch out what you say
And we all tried, yes, we tried
We all kept pluggin' like a salmon up a stream
Some of us were dancing
But some of us were screaming
But we tried
Oh, how we tried
Bunch of different funny people living by the sea
And trying to get to other planets
Trying to start another scene
Their leaders said, "Come pay us, we'll show you what we mean"
But I learned not to trust them
They were not what they seemed (Hot!)
We all kept pluggin' like a salmon up a stream
Some of us were dancin'
And some of us were screamin'
While we tried
Oh, we tried
Marie, she looked like Linda with fifty extra teeth
Linda made the cover of a family magazine
And Bonnie was the singer that made both of them dream
But they all lost to disco, the current mating theme
I've never seen a hero but I've got five million dreams
I've never been to Harlem but I've been somewhere in between
As long as I can keep moving, I guess I'll keep up with the scene
I'm dancing to the rhythm of the road
Yes, I'm dancing to the rhythm of the road
Set the groove, set the mood
Checkin' out what's on the tube
Close the day, it's time to play
I'll put the sounds on the stereo
Drift away
Drift away

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

Great song by the wonderful Mike Nesmith ❤🙏

[@zorak1704]

Rest In Peace Papa Nez

[@davidoberst6268]

The last song on Infinite Rider......LP. Never hear much talk about the great change from the country type tunes Nez had been doing into the new style that happened in a short time here in 1979. That LP was soooooo cool

[@patboyle8734]

Nes and his mind never stayed in one place to long.He was always thinking ahead.

[@j.c6964]

i was there, in the crowd scene, for Elvis's "It happened st the fair " later that decade 1967", I met Michael back stage at the Seattle Center. so this pairing makes it all come back.

[@axelh425]

This is pure magic.

[@sinouheferreiramonteironun813]

I love this song!

[@laurasenderhauf7089]

its the 1964 Seattle worlds fair. thats cool

[@mrmusic248]

Funkee Monkee !!

[@redsonja2291]

This was not what I pictured in my head whilst listening to Capsule. It's cool, but it made me feel a bit torn as well.