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.
Don’t wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna die here.
My mama says she can’t understand me
She can’t see my motivation
Ain’t got no security,
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.
Me and my baby gonna get on a train that’s gonna take us away,
We’re gonna live in a tent, we’re gonna pay no more rent, we’re gonna pay no more rates,
We’re gonna live in a field, we’re gonna buy me gun to keep the policemen away.
I’m gonna pass me a brand new resolution,
I’m gonna fight me a one man revolution, someway,
Gonna beat those people in grey,
But here come the people in grey,
To take me away.