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 i.d., oh yeah,

cause i'm a 21st century digital boy,
i don't know how to live but i've got a
lot of toys,
my daddy is
a lazy middle class intellectual,
my mommy's on valium, (she's) so ineffectual,
ain't life a mystery?

i can't explain it,
the things they'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 is
a lazy middle class intellectual,
my mommy's on valium, (she's) so ineffectual,
ain't life a mystery?

i tried to tell you about no control, oho
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?

cause i'm a 21st century digital boy,
i don't know how to live but i've got a
lot of toys,
my daddy is
a lazy middle class intellectual,
my mommy's on valium, (she's) so ineffectual,

21st century digital boy,
21st century digital boy,
21st century digital boy,
21st century digital boy,
... ain't life a mystery?