Tytuł: 20th Century man

• Wykonawca: The Kinks
• Wyświetleń: 255

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 aggravation
   It's the age of insanity,
   What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.
  
   Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
   I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.
   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.
  
   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,
  
   Girl we gotta get out of here
   We gotta find a solution
   I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here.
  
   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
   Cos the twentieth century people
   Took it all away from me.
  
   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.
  
   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 be here.
  
   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