Interpret:

Kinks, The

Album:

Muswell Hillbillies

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 
'Cause 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