This is the age of machinery, a mechanical nightmare
A wonderful world of technology
Napalm, hydrogen bomb, biological warfare
This is the twentieth century, too much aggrevation
It's the age of insanity
What has become of the green pleasant fields of
Jeruselem?
Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
I'm a twentieth century man but
don't want, 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, don't wanna die here
Girl, we gotta get out of here
I'm a twentieth-We gotta find a solution
century man but
I don't want, I don't want to be 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 die here
I don't want twentieth-century, man
No more twentieth-century man
I don't want twentieth-century, man
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