Kinks - 20th Century Man lyrics

This is the age of machinery,<br>A mechanical nightmare,<br>The wonderful world of technology,<br>Napalm hydrogen bombs biological warfare,<br><br>This is the twentieth century,<br>But too much aggravation<br>It's the age of insanity,<br>What has become of the green pleasant fields of jerusalem.<br><br>Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned<br>I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.<br>My mama said she can't understand me<br>She can't see my motivation<br>Just give me some security,<br>I'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.<br><br>You keep all your smart modern writers<br>Give me william shakespeare<br>You keep all your smart modern painters<br>I'll take rembrandt, titian, da vinci and gainsborough,<br><br>Girl we gotta get out of here<br>We gotta find a solution<br>I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want to die here.<br><br>I was born in a welfare state<br>Ruled by bureaucracy<br>Controlled by civil servants<br>And people dressed in grey<br>Got no privacy got no liberty<br>Cos the twentieth century people<br>Took it all away from me.<br><br>Don't wanna get myself shot down<br>By some trigger happy policeman,<br>Gotta keep a hold on my sanity<br>I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here.<br><br>My mama says she can't understand me<br>She can't see my motivation<br>Ain't got no security,<br>I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.<br><br>This is the twentieth century<br>But too much aggravation<br>This is the edge of insanity<br>I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.