21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors)
1969 · Atlantic SD 8245 · London, UK: England
- Artist
- King Crimson
- Title
- 21st Century Schizoid Man (Including Mirrors)
- Release
- In the Court of the Crimson King
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Atlantic # SD 8245
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- London, UK: England
- Songwriter
- Greg Lake/Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Peter Sinfield
- Genre
- Rock · Progressive Rock · Art Rock
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — European Songs
21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson) Formed 13 January 1969, London, Greater London, United Kingdom Anti-war - napalm reference.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: "Blood rack barbed wire / Polititians' funeral pyre / Innocents raped with napalm fire / Twenty first century schizoid man / Death seed blind man's greed / Poets' starving children bleed / Nothing he's got he really needs / Twenty first century schizoid man"
About the artist
Formed 13 January 1969, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.
Themes
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]