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 want   I don't wanna be here      Mama besides 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   I don't wanna die here      Girl, we gotta get out of here   We gotta find a solution   I'm a twentieth century man but I don't want   I don't wanna be here      I was born in a welfare state, ruled by bureaucracy   Controlled by civil servants and people dressed in gray   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      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