21st Century Life

Oh, when I was a little boy livin' in the last century

I thought about livin' in the future, then it occurred to me

I turned around, the future was now, the future was all around me

Nothing like I had imagined, it was totally confounding, hey, oh

21st century life, I got swept away

I got twenty-one thousand things that I gotta do today

21st century life, well, what can I say?

The new world's got me feeling so dirty

Think I need to get down and play

Well, now I turned on the TV just in time enough to hear

What the Pope said, the Pope said

And just a few tiny words later, somebody wants the man dead, oh

Well what about famine and disease, well they said it's too bad

Because I'm never alone, it's not just a phone, it's a stereo, hey, oh

21st century life, I got swept away

I got twenty-one thousand things that I gotta do today

21st century life, what can I say?

The new world's got me feeling so dirty

Think I need to get down and play, ooh

Now, I'm not a little boy, I'm in the 21st century

Well, you might think we've come a really long way

But there's still no equality, hey, hey

I watched the news on my computer screen

Talkin' bout buyin' my weed out of a vending machine

You tell me I'm free, well how can that be?

When you're always watchin' me on the CCTV?

21st century life, I got swept away

I got twenty-one thousand things that I gotta do today

21st century life, what can I say?

The new world's got me feeling so dirty

Think I need to get down and play, yeah

Whoa, twenty-one, twenty-one, twenty-one

I'm talkin' 'bout twenty-one, twenty-one, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa