Modern World - Aldo Nova

On the boulevard where broken dreams

Breathe on the covers of my magazines

And the rats pay homage to the local sleaze

Before they bleed them dry

There goes crazy Jean

She’s got electric eyes

From the trackbox running up and down her thighs

An ole' skinny boy he just looks outside and screams

Hey you Puerto-Rican

Fast cars

(Fast cars)

Fast living

(Fast cars)

What happened to my world?

This ain’t gonna love

This ain’t love

This is being a knight in the modern world

Living in hate in the modern world

Ain’t no black or white in the modern world

Just you and me babe, in the modern world

Well the mayor’s hobby is doing crack

While the homeless go hungry right out back

And those union boys down on Bentno street

Wouldn’t know how to stack those cards

And there’s a trump card dealing in stocks and wives

When the maple tree keeps 'em warm tonight

See the apple rot watch the bugs they crawl

On the steps of the Taj Mahal

Cheap crime

(Big crime)

And lives

(No time)

What happened to my world?

This ain’t gonna love

This ain’t love

Yeah this is life and death in the modern world

This is what you get in the modern world

And you better bet that in a modern world

It’s you and me babe,

Just you and me babe,

in the modern world

Where there’s nowhere to run to

The modern world

Better get your gun

Hey!

Hey!

Yeah, it’s a jungle out there

Hey!

Well there’s no tomorrow, but we got tonight

I have to trade my blade for a thunder fight

I was much too young for your Vietnam

But there’s a war going on in my homeland

(This ain’t love)

(Well this ain’t love)

Well it’s dog eat dog in the modern world

Live and die in the modern world

There’s no way to sense it in the modern world

It’s you and me in the modern world

Only heroes die in the modern world

No one cries in the modern world

And you gotta fight in the modern world

Cause it’s you and me babe

You and me baby

You and me babe

in the modern world