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That was my only friend - this was the first time I had been anywhere outside of Macon, Georgia or the Memphis area. This one guy in the house had taken my dog and done away with it. I took my cat out to Delaney's house in Hawthorn, and when I got back my little dog was gone. One guy told me to get rid of my dog and cat because there wasn't room. I was living there with Indian Head Davis and Chuck Blackwell and Jimmy Constantine - there were about 13 of us in this house in Sherman Oaks in the valley.

Whitlock: "I was living at The Plantation in the valley - you remember the shootout at The Plantation in the Leon Russell song.

Pat drew upon the multitude of past predictions which transcend several cultures that foreshadow the world ending in the 1980s, along with the nuclear tension at the height of the Cold Warto compile the song. The "job waiting" after graduation signified the demand for nuclear scientists to facilitate such events. While not saying so directly, he hinted at the idea that the bright future was in fact due to impending nuclear holocaust.

Pat somewhat clarified the meaning by stating that it was, contrary to popular belief, a "grim" outlook. Pat revealed on VH1’s 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s that the meaning of the song was widely misinterpreted as a positive perspective in regard to the near future. I got a crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses That’s why the crazy professor wears dark glasses. That’s what’s so bright- the mushroom cloud.

The kid in the song, he’s studying nuclear science. Until you hear the interview where they say its really dark as hell. The whole song seems so upbeat and cheerful. Like, The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades. I’m talking more songs that turn out to have a lot different meaning than you think.