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
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
N.C.