The Kinks - 20th Century Man (Video & Lyrics)

[DudeAsInCool]

Listen to the song

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

Its the age of insanity,

What has become of the green pleasant fields of jerusalem.

Aint got no ambition, Im just disillusioned

Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.

My mama said she cant understand me

She cant see my motivation

Just give me some security,

Im 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

Ill take rembrandt, titian, da vinci and gainsborough,

Girl we gotta get out of here

We gotta find a solution

Im a twentieth century man but I dont 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.

Dont wanna get myself shot down

By some trigger happy policeman,

Gotta keep a hold on my sanity

Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna die here.

My mama says she cant understand me

She cant see my motivation

Aint got no security,

Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.

This is the twentieth century

But too much aggravation

This is the edge of insanity

Im a twentieth century man but I dont wanna be here.

Source: Lyric's Freak

[DudeAsInCool]

Here is a video with Ray Davies of The Kinks performing with some friends: