Transcription by Pär Svensson, t89par@student.tdb.uu.se.
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I can't believe it,
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the way you look sometimes,
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like a trampled flag on a city street,
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oh yeah
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and I don't want it,
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the things you're offering me,
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symbolized bar code, quick i.d.,
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oh yeah
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I'm a 21st century digital boy,
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I don't know how to live, but I've got a lot of toys,
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my daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual,
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my mommy's on valium, she's so ineffectual,
ain't life a mystery?
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I can't explain it,
the things they're saying to me,
it's going yayayayayayaya,
oh yeah,
I'm a 21st century digital boy,
I don't know how to read, but I've got a lot of toys,
my daddy is a lazy middle class intellectual,
my mommy's on valium, she's so ineffectual,
ain't life a mystery?
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i tried to tell you about no control,
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but now I really don't know,
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and then you told me how bad you had to suffer,
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is that really all you have to offer?
(Solo)
I'm a 21st century digital boy...