21st Century

I can't believe it: the way you look sometimes

Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah

And I don't want it: the things you're offering me, yeah

Symbolized bar code, quick IDs, oh yeah

'Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy

I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys

My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual

My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual

Ain't life a mystery?

I can't explain it: the things you're saying to me

It's going ya ya ya ya ya ya ya, oh yeah

'Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy

I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys

My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual

My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual

Ain't life a mystery?

I tried to tell you about no control

But now I really don't know

And then you told me how bad you had to suffer

Is that really all you have to offer?

'Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy

I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys

My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual

My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual

(21st century digital boy)

Cat's foot, iron claw

(21st century digital boy)

Neurosurgeon, scream for more

(21st century digital boy)

Innocence raped with napalm fire

(21st century digital boy)

Everything I want, I really need

Ain't life a mystery?