ALLERGIC  TO  THE  20TH  CENTURY

 Words & Music by Kim Palmer

 Stereo Sample ( mp3 )

Keyboards/ Keyboard Bass/ Drum Programming/ Vocals/ Arranging - Kim Palmer
Electric Guitar - Mike Hopkins
Recording/Mixing - John Holt

 Lyrics

  ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Industrialized, deodorized, volatized for my demise!

PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY
PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Take me back in time where I'm away
From pollution's contribution to our modern day
Where doctors don't just look at me and scratch their head
And there aren't any flame retardants in my bed
   And no-one at MacDonald's eats what I can't
   Appointing me the ultimate renunciant
   Where I can hide from the hydes to save my hide
   Formaldehyde, benzaldehyde, pesticide, I'm paralyzed!

PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY
PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Are you aware that in your hair
Is something that could knock me out?
I'm the canary of the future, ya that's what they say
Well if it's true I wish that I could fly away
   I've got the right knowledge in the wrong world
   Excuse me if I'm woozy and my words are slurred
   I just keep on trying and I'm not dead yet
   But Mister, could you please put out that cigarette?

PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY
PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY

Oh Lord grant me impunity and give me immunity
  So there can be some unity 'round here
    One whiff of perfume and I'm history, I'm on Venus
      It's adios amigos - I'll be O.K. when she goes
        (Very far away...)

Greg says living in a room of aluminum foil is O.K.
But he's way into Sci-Fi anyway
Scott redefines and designs me walls of glass
I just shiver by the heater cuz I turned off the gas
   And sometimes the blinded narrow-minded make me tense
   That's when Stacy rises to take my defense
   Against the Jimmys who think it's in my head;
   I wish it were, there'd be a cure and it'd be easier than this!

PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY
PARDON-MOI, DON'T MIND ME
I'M JUST ALLERGIC TO THE 20TH CENTURY

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