21st Century Life

Album: Sam Sparro (2008)
Charted: 44
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  • When I was a little boy living in the last century
    I thought about living in the future then it occurred to me
    I turned around the future was now, the future was all around me
    Nothing like I had imagined, it was totally confounding

    21st century life, I got swept away
    I got 21,000 things that I gotta do today
    21st century life, well what can I say?
    The new world's got me feeling so dirty
    Think I need to get down and play

    Well, now I turned on the TV just in time enough to hear
    What the Pope said, the Pope said
    And just a few tiny words later somebody wants the man dead
    What about famine and disease, well they said it's too bad, oops
    Because I'm never alone, it's not just a phone, it's a stereo

    21st century life, I got swept away
    I got 21,000 things that I gotta do today
    21st century life, well what can I say?
    The new world's got me feeling so dirty
    Think I need to get down and play

    Now I'm not a little boy, I'm in the 21st century
    Well, you might think we've come a really long way
    But there's still no equality

    I watched the news on my computer screen
    Talking about buying my weed out of a vending machine
    You tell me I'm free but how can it be
    When you're always watching me on the CCTV

    21st century life, I got swept away
    I got 21,000 things that I gotta do today
    21st century life, well what can I say?
    The new world's got me feeling so dirty
    Think I need to get down and play

    21, 21, 21
    I'm talking about 21, 21 Writer/s: JESSE ROGG, SAM FALSON, SAMUEL FALSON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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