21st Century Show by Earth And Fire, Album: Earth And Fire, 1970

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Twenty-first century show

Marching and moaning and crying
And dying in no time
Like home-lost pigeons
And full of suspicions in their mind
Let us go to the merry-go-round
Come on now let them go
It’s the twenty-first century show
Nothing there they really need

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Twenty-first century

Neuro-surgeons are dreaming
Of more and more
They’re begging and begging
'oh please' at your door
Let us go to the merry-go-round
Observations of a fool
It’s the twentieth centuries’ fool
But he stays really cool

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
Twenty-first century

Our technical friend can be
A deadly friend in the end
Will wisdom survive this
Technical friend
Your friend
Let us go to the merry-go-round
Come on to the sun
I’m glad there is one
Let it shine
Let it shine

It’s a famous progressive/psychedelic band from Holland. This song has many striking similarities with the basic concept of In the court of the Crimson King by King Crimson that we have presented some weeks ago: The anxiety and fear of a totally dominated by technology and dehumanizing future. In the end there is also a call for quest for the natural way.

You can hear this song (no. 86) among 99 others of their nearly complete discography from 1969 up to 1987 in http://earthandfire.ning.com/