20th Century Man

[Verse 1]

This is the age of machinery

A mechanical nightmare

The wonderful world of technology

Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare

[Verse 2]

This is the twentieth century

But too much aggravation

It's the age of insanity

What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem

[Chorus 1]

Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned

I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want, I don't wanna be here

[Verse 3]

My mama said she can't understand me

She can't see my motivation

Just give me some security

I'm a paranoid, schizoid product of the twentieth century

[Verse 4]

You keep all your smart modern writers

Give me William Shakespeare

You keep all your smart modern painters

I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough

[Chorus 2]

Girl, we gotta get out of here

We gotta find a solution

I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want, I don't want to die here

Girl, we gotta get out of here

We gotta find a solution

I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want, I don't want to be here

[Bridge]

I was born in a welfare state

Ruled by bureaucracy

Controlled by civil servants

And people dressed in grey

Got no privacy, got no liberty

'Cause the twentieth-century people

Took it all away from me

[Chorus 3]

Don't wanna get myself shot down

By some trigger happy policeman

Gotta keep a hold on my sanity

I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't wanna die here

[Chorus 4]

My mama says she can't understand me

She can't see my motivation

Ain't got no security

I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't wanna die here

[Bridge]

I don't want twentieth-century, man

No more twentieth-century man

I don't want twentieth-century, man

[Chorus 5]

This is the twentieth century

But too much aggravation

This is the edge of insanity

I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't wanna be here