1. Introduction: 20th century man's legacy
This is the age of machinery, A mechanical nightmare,
The wonderful world of technology, Napalm hydrogen bombs biological warfare,
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Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned, I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna be here.
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I'm a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.
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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.
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I'm a twentieth century man but I don't wanna die here.
20th Century Man,written by Raymond Douglas Davies (Muswell Hillbillies,1971).
With these sharp
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