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
Symbolized barcode, quick I.D.
Oh yeah
‘Cuz I’m a 21st century digital boy
I don’t know how to live, 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, yeah
I can’t explain it
The things they’re saying to me
It’s going “yah yah yah yah yah yah yah”
Oh yeah
Cuz I’m a 21st century digital boy
I don’t know how to read 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
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
See 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
(Cat’s foot iron claw)
(Neuro-surgeons scream for more)
(Innocents raped with napalm fire)
(Everything I want I really need)