Twentieth Century Man Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][C][G][D][G]
[C][G][C][G][C][G]
[C][G][C][G]

[Verse 1]
[G]This is the age of machinery
A mechanical night[D]mare
[G]The wonderful world of
[C]technology
Napalm hydrogen bombs
biological [G]warfare

[Verse 2]
[G]
This is the twentieth century
But too much aggrav[D]ation
[G]It's the age of insanity
[C]What has become of the [F]green
pleasant [C]fields of Jer[G]usalem

[Verse 3]
[G]
Ain't got no [F]ambition
[G]I'm just dis[F]illusioned
I'm [C]a twentieth century man but I don't want,
I don't want to be [G]here

[Interlude 1]
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[Verse 4]
My mama said she [G]can't
understand me
She can't see my motiv[D]ation
[G]Just give me some security
I'm [C]a paranoid schiz[F]oid product
of [G]the twentieth century

[Verse 5]
[G]
You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William [D]Shakespeare[F]
[G]You keep all your smart modern painters
[C]I'll take Rembrandt, [F]Titian,
[C]Da Vinci and [G]Gainsborough

[Verse 6]
[G]
Girl we gotta get out [F]of here
[G]We gotta find a s[F]olution
I'm [C]a twentieth century man but I don't want,
I don't want to [G]die here

[Verse 7]
[G]
Girl, we gotta get out of [F]here
[G]We gotta find a s[F]olution
I'm [C]a twentieth century man but I don't want,
I don't want to be [G]here

[Verse 8]
I was [G]born in a [D]welfare [G]state
Ruled by bureaucracy
[F]Contro[C]lled by civil ser[D]vants
And [Eb]people [Bb]dressed [C]in [G]grey
Got [Gm]no privacy, got no l[F]iberty
'Cause [C]the twentieth century [G]people
Took it [Eb]all away f[C]rom [G]me

[Interlude 3]
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[F][C][G][F][C][G][F][C][G][F][C]
[G]
[F]Don't want to get myself

[Verse 9]
[C]shot [F]down[C]
[G]By some trigger[F] happy pol[C]iceman[F][C]
[G]Gotta keep a h[F]old on my sanity
[C]I'm a twentieth [Eb]century [Bb]man but I [F]don't want
[G]to die here

[Interlude 4]
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[C]My mama says she can't

[Verse 10]
under[F]stand [C]me
[G]She can't see my mo
[F]tiva[C]tion[F][C][G]
Ain't got no se[F]curity
[C]I'm a twentieth [Eb]cen tury m[Bb]an but I
[F]don't want to [G]die here

[Verse 11]
[G]I don't[C][G][F][C][F][C][G][F]
[C]wan[F]t[G][F]
[C]twe[G]ntieth century, man[F][C][G]
I don't want twentieth cen[F]tury,
[C]man[G]
I don't want twentieth [F]cen[C]tury, man
[G]I don't want twentieth [F]cen[C]tury,

[Interlude 5]
man
[G][F][C][G][F][C][G]

[Verse 12]
This is the twentieth [F]century[C]
[G]But too much aggravation
[F]Thi[C]s i[G]s the edge of insani[F]ty
[C]I'm a twentieth [Eb]century [Bb]man
but I don't [F]want [G]to be here

[Outro 1]
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