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21st Century (Digital Boy) - Bad Religion

Album: Stranger than Fiction

genre: Punk-Rock

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 bar code, quick ID, oh yeah

Cause 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
Ain’t life a mystery?

I can’t explain it, the things you’re saying to me
It’s going yayayayayayaya, oh yeah

Cause 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
Ain’t life a mystery?

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 have 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
Ain’t life a mystery?

Cat’s foot, iron claw
Neurosurgeon, scream for more
Innocence raped with napalm fire
Everything I want, I really need

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Lyrics added by Thomas B. Watts

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"21st Century (Digital Boy)" is the lead single off Bad Religion's "Stranger Than Fiction"
Song details
  • Publishing: Epitaph Records
  • Co-Production: Andy Wallace & Bad Religion
  • Composition: Mr. Brett
  • Vocals: Greg Graffin
  • Release Date: November 23, 1990 & September 6, 1994
The song was originally released as part of their 1990 fifth full-length studio album "Against the Grain" and rereleased on the 1994 album "Stranger Than Fiction".