Kinks - 20th Century Man Lyrics
This is the age of machinery,A mechanical nightmare,The wonderful world of technology,Napalm hydrogen bombs biological warfare,This is the twentieth century,But too much aggravationIts the age of insanity,What has become of the green pleasant fields of jerusalem.Aint got no ambition, Im just disillusionedIm a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.My mama said she cant understand meShe cant see my motivationJust give me some security,Im a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.You keep all your smart modern writersGive me william shakespeareYou keep all your smart modern paintersIll take rembrandt, titian, da vinci and gainsborough,Girl we gotta get out of hereWe gotta find a solutionIm a twentieth century man but I dont want to die here.I was born in a welfare stateRuled by bureaucracyControlled by civil servantsAnd people dressed in greyGot no privacy got no libertyCos the twentieth century peopleTook it all away from me.Dont wanna get myself shot downBy some trigger happy policeman,Gotta keep a hold on my sanityIm a twentieth century man but I dont wanna die here.My mama says she cant understand meShe cant see my motivationAint got no security,Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.This is the twentieth centuryBut too much aggravationThis is the edge of insanityIm a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.
