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 Celluloid Heroes - Live
2 Stop Your Sobbing - Live
3 David Watts - Live
4 Till the End of the Day (live)
5 Prince of the Punks (Live at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, September 1979)
6 Low Budget (Live at Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, September 1979)
7 Attitude (Live at Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, November 1979)
8 (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman [Live at Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, November 1979]
9 Victoria (Live at Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, November 1979)
10 Opening (Live)
11 The Hard Way - Live
12 Catch Me Now I'm Falling - Live
13 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (live)
14 Introduction to Lola - Live
15 Lola (Live)
16 Pressure - Live
17 All Day and All of the Night - Live
18 20th Century Man - Live
19 Misfits - Live
20 Prince of the Punks - Live
21 Stop Your Sobbing - Live
22 Low Budget - Live
23 Attitude - Live
24 (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman (Live)
25 National Health - Live
26 Till the End of the Day (live)
27 Celluloid Heroes - Live
28 You Really Got Me - Live
29 Victoria - Live
30 David Watts - Live




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