Key: F#m
Introduction: F#m A E F#m A B F#m A B F#m A B F#m A B
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On the boulevard where broken dreams breathe on the covers of my magazines
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And the rats pay homage to the local sleaze before they bleed them dry
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There goes crazy Jean she's got electric eyes from the trackbox running up and down her thighs
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An ole' skinny boy he just looks outside and screams hey you Puerto-Rican
B
Fast cars (Fast cars) Fast living (Fast cars) What happened to my world?
A
This ain't gonna love
B
This ain't love
F#m A E B
This is being a knight in the modern world
F#m A E B
Living in hate in the modern world
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Ain't no black or white in the modern world
D E F#m
Just you and me babe in the modern world
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Well the mayor's hobby is doing crack while the homeless go hungry right out back
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And those union boys down on Bentno street wouldn't know how to stack those cards
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And there's a trump card dealing in stocks and wives when the maple tree keeps 'em warm tonight
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See the apple rot watch the bugs they crawl on the steps of the Taj Mahal
B
Cheap crime (Big crime) And lives (No time) What happened to my world?
A
This ain't gonna love
B
This ain't love
F#m A E B
Yeah this is life and death in the modern world
F#m A E B
This is what you get in the modern world
F#m A E B
And you better bet that in a modern world
D E
It's you and me babe,
D E
Just you and me babe,
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in the modern world
E
Where there's nowhere to run to
F#m D
The modern world
E
Better get your gun
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Well there's no tomorrow, but we got tonight I have to trade my blade for a thunder fight
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I was much too young for your Vietnam but there's a war going on in my homeland
A
(This ain't love)
B
(Well this ain't love)
F#m A E B
Well it's dog eat dog in the modern world
F#m A E B
Live and die in the modern world
F#m A E B
There's no way to sense it in the modern world
F#m A E B
It's you and me in the modern world
F#m A E B
Only heroes die in the modern world
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No one cries in the modern world
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And you gotta fight in the modern world
D E
Cause it's you and me babe
D E
You and me baby
D E
You and me babe
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