This Is The 21st Century

Marillion

(...If you could only see what I've seen with your eyes) 

A wise man once said 
A flower is only 
A sexual organ 
Beauty is cruelty 
And evolution 
A wise man once said 
that everything could be explained with mathematics 
He had denied 
His feminine side 
Now where is the wisdom in that? 

I came just as fast as I could 
Through the dirty air 
Of your neighbourhood 
Your name on a grain of rice 
Hangin' around my neck 
And a head like lead 

This is the 21st century 
I heard everything they said 
The Universe demystified 
Chemicals for God 
This is the 21st century 
I heard everything they said 

A wise man once wrote 
That love is only 
An ancient instinct 
For reproduction 
Natural selection 
A wise man once said 
That everything could be explained 
And it's all in the brain 

We lay on a velvet rug 
by the open fire 
She blew air on my eyelids 
I cried "What's it all about?" 
As she kissed my hair 
She said "There, there.." 

"This is the 21st century 
I heard everything you said 
The universe demystified 
Astronomy instead 
This is the 21st century 
Can't you get it through your head 
This aint the way it was meant to be 
Magic isn't dead 
Come to bed 
Come to bed 

And rest your heavy head my love.." 
And slowly, from above, 
She showed the answer's something that can't be written down 

This is the 21st century 
Flash to crash and burn 
Nobody's gonna give you anything 
For nothing in return 
There's a man up in a mirrored building 
And he just bought the world 

Would you want 
To have kids 
Growing up 
Into what's left of this? 

She shook her head, 
She said "Can't you see? 
The world is you 
The world is me." 

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