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Friday, February 29th, 2008

“20th Century Man,” by the Kinks…

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in gray
Got no privacy; got no liberty
‘Cause the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.

Don’t wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna die here.

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This entry was posted on Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 10:27 am by Radley Balko and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “Five-Star Fridays”

  1. #1 |  Against Stupidity |  February 29th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    Ya gotta Love the Kinks.

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  2. #2 |  Ron Paul |  February 29th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

    Great song, great lyrics. The snippet Radley quoted is featured in this Ron Paul youtube video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=4EpBuZiTFX8

    Five-Star Fridays rock!

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  3. #3 |  nom de guerre |  February 29th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    good to know i’m not the only one who feels he was born 100 years too late. of course, the kinks guys don’t *really* mean that, or if they do, they just haven’t thought it through properly.

    100 years ago, there were no groupies.

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  4. #4 |  Russ 2000 |  March 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Ray Davies’ new album has a good song with a similar sentiment called “No One Listen”.

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