Living In The Twentieth Century Lyrics & Chords By Larry Norman

Why are you here? What is this place?

I bid you welcome to the human race,
Under certain pain, it always rains

From sea to shining sea.


People in pain, poverty cries,


Deception touches everybody's lives

White men may see this is life

The way that it ought to be


So I've been praying for the starving poor

And I keep pointing toward the open door

And I keep dreaming of a distant shore

Where men are free.



We're living in the twentieth century.

Sitting in the lap of luxury

Seeing only what you want to see.

Living in the twentieth century.



People are blind, don't comprehend

The angry lion that they called their friend

He seeks to devour, to seek and destroy the weak.


We kill unknown children, then cry save the whales

Let the poor criminals out of jail


We think evolution of the species

Will help man to learn to turn the other cheek.


So I've been praying for the starving poor.

And I keep pointing toward the open door

And I keep dreaming of a distant shore

Where men are free.



We're living in the twentieth century.

Sitting in the lap of luxury

Seeing only what you want to see.

Living in the twentieth century.