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 barcode, quick I.D.
Oh yeah

'Cuz I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to live, 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, yeah

I can't explain it
The things they're saying to me
It's going "yah yah yah yah yah yah yah"
Oh yeah

Cuz I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I 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, yeah

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 had 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

Cat's foot, iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Everything I want, I really need...

Ain't life a mystery, yeah.