JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "20th Century Man" adalah lagu rock dari grup musik lawas The Kinks.
Lagu ini menjadi singel dari album kesepuluh mereka yang dinamakan Muswell Hillbillies.
Dirilis pada 1971, singel tersebut bercerita tentang kekecewaan terhadap dunia modern.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu Little Bit of Emotion dari The Kinks
Simak lirik dan chord lagu "20th Century Man" dari The Kinks.
[Verse 1]
A
This is the age of machinery
E
A mechanical nightmare
A
The wonderful world of technology
D G D A
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare
[Verse 2]
A
This is the twentieth century
E
But too much aggravation
A
It's the age of insanity
D G D A
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem
[Chorus 1]
A G A G
Ain't got no ambition, I'm just disillusioned
D A
I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want, I don't wanna be here
[Verse 3]
A G A
My mama said she can't understand me
E
She can't see my motivation
A
Just give me some security
D G D A
I'm a paranoid, schizoid product of the twentieth century
[Verse 4]
A G A
You keep all your smart modern writers
E
Give me William Shakespeare
A
You keep all your smart modern painters
D G D A
I'll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough
[Chorus 2]
A G A
Girl, we gotta get out of here
G
We gotta find a solution
D A
I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want, I don't want to die here
A G A
Girl, we gotta get out of here
G
We gotta find a solution
D A
I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't want, I don't want to be here
[Bridge]
Em A
I was born in a welfare state
Em G
Ruled by bureaucracy
D Am
Controlled by civil servants
C A
And people dressed in grey
Am A G
Got no privacy, got no liberty
D A
'Cause the twentieth-century people
C A
Took it all away from me
[Chorus 3]
A G D A
Don't wanna get myself shot down
G D A
By some trigger happy policeman
G D
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
D F C G A
I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't wanna die here
[Chorus 4]
G D A
My mama says she can't understand me
G D A
She can't see my motivation
G D
Ain't got no security
D F C G A
I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't wanna die here
[Bridge]
D A
I don't want twentieth-century, man
D A
No more twentieth-century man
D A
I don't want twentieth-century, man
[Chorus 5]
A G D A
This is the twentieth century
G D A
But too much aggravation
G D
This is the edge of insanity
D F C G A
I'm a twentieth-century man but I don't wanna be here