The 20th Century Is Over
Ellis Paul
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The 20th Century is over, but what if it never began? What if the entire 100 years was the work of a single man? I mean in hindsight, dont it seem quite clear? At least it does from where I sit here How could we go from a horse-drawn cart To Mars in 100 years? He started out slowly, nineteen-ought-one-two-and-three To pull us in quietly into the 20th Century But before the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk Lifted off that sandy ground Hed invented Thomas Edison, modern medicine, electric sound The 20th Century is over, but what if it never began? What if the entire 100 years was the work of a single man? We chased the War to End All Wars With a party that roared and crashed Took a second world war ten years later Before we found ourselves jobs and gas And Hitler! Good Lord, Hitler, what was he thinking there? You put the Devil in a Chaplin moustache Grease back his crop-top hair and millions will follow How could we swallow how could we swallow that word for word? That someone so evil could walk among the people Who inhabit this planet Earth? The 20th Century is over, but what if it never began? What if the entire 100 years was the work of a single man? The Sixties framed with sex, drugs and rock and roll Assassinations, demonstrations, and shots from the grassy knoll He chased away Vietnam with the calm Of punk rock rage You never knew what craziness was lying In wait from page to page Reganism Communism Reaganism Communism And they tore down the Berlin Wall But our optimism is still standing Waiting for a call that never came Much is very different, but too much is still the same He shrank the computer down from a warehouse to a chip And then he shrunk it down again and again and again and now its just a tiny blip And now the blip is so wee, so small it cant be seen By the naked eye at all Cant be seen But it glues us, all of us in our house To the mouse To the screen, to the screen Just like him, in a room thats dim Were all awaiting our final scene Were awaiting our final scene The 20th Century is over, but what if it never began? What if the entire 100 years was the work of a single man? Lets override the circuits tonight And lets write the 21st Century ourselves Lets get it right
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