21st Century Man

Electric Light Orchestra · Time [1981]

A penny in your pocket

Suitcase in your hand

They won't get you very far

Now your a twenty-first century man

Fly across the city

Rise above the land

You can do most anything

Now you a 21st century man



Though you ride on the wheels of tommorow

You still wander the fields of your sorrow



One day your a hero

Next day, your a clown

There's nothing that is in between

Now your a 21st century man



You should be so happy

You should be so glad

So why are you so lonely?

You 21st century man



You stepped out of a dream,

Believing everything was gone

Return with what you've learned

They'll kiss the ground you walk upon



Things ain't how you thought they were

Nothing have you planned

So pick up your penny and your suitcase

Your'e not a 21st century man



Though you ride on the wheels of tomorrow

You still wander the fields of your sorrow

Tomorrow

21st century man

21st century man