The Kinks - 20th Century Man - Live Lyrics

Lyrics 20th Century Man - Live - The Kinks



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



Writer(s): Davies Raymond Douglas


The Kinks - One for the Road (Live)
Album One for the Road (Live)
date of release
04-06-1980

1 You Really Got Me - Live
2 Low Budget - Live
3 Celluloid Heroes - Live
4 Till the End of the Day (live)
5 David Watts - Live
6 Victoria - Live
7 National Health - Live
8 Attitude - Live
9 Stop Your Sobbing - Live
10 Prince of the Punks - Live
11 Misfits - Live
12 20th Century Man - Live
13 All Day and All of the Night - Live
14 Pressure - Live
15 Introduction to Lola - Live
16 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (live)
17 Catch Me Now I'm Falling - Live
18 The Hard Way - Live
19 Opening (Live)
20 The Hard Way - Live
21 Catch Me Now I'm Falling - Live
22 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (live)
23 Introduction to Lola - Live
24 Pressure - Live
25 All Day and All of the Night - Live
26 Misfits - Live
27 Prince of the Punks - Live
28 Stop Your Sobbing - Live
29 Low Budget - Live
30 Attitude - Live
31 (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman (Live)
32 National Health - Live
33 Till the End of the Day (live)
34 Celluloid Heroes - Live
35 You Really Got Me - Live
36 Victoria - Live
37 David Watts - Live




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