I can't believe it
the way you look sometimes
like a trampled
flag on a city mtreet, oh yeah
and I don't want it
the things your offering me
symbolised barcode quick
ID, oh yeah
Cause I'm a 21st
century digital boy
I don't know how to live
but I 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 yeah
<Interlude>
I can't explain it
the things your saying to me
its going yayayayayayaya oh yeah
Cause I'm a 21st
century digital boy
I don't know how to read
but I got alot of toys
my daddy's a lazy
middle class intellectual
my mommy's on valium
so ineffectual
ain't life a mystery yeah
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 had to offer
<Interlude>
Cause I'm a 21
century digital boy
I don't know how to live but I
got alot of toys
my daddy's a lazy
middle class intellectual
my mommy's on valium
so ineffectual
cat's foot, iron claw
neuro surgeons scream for more
innocents raped with napalm fire
everything I want I really need
21st century schizoid boy
21st century video boy
21st century digital boy
cked down
and they put you first in line
And so you finally ask yourself
just how big you are
and take your place in a wiser
world of bigger motor cars
<Intelrude>
So Where the hell was Biggles
when you needed him
last Saturday
And where were all the sportsmen
who always pulled you though
They're all resting down
in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs
for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual
See there! A man born