Modern World

1. Junkies are robbin’ your car and your home

The pound in your pocket’s goin’ way down

Alarms, loud music, yeah who wants to sleep

A symphony of violence to darken your street

2. Nuclear power plants waitin’ to go wrong

The hole in the ozone, aids and terrorist bombs

London where I live’s lookin’ really third world

Yeah, tell me tell me, what’s happening girl

Ch: This is the modern world, this is the modern world

This is the modern world, for us baby

This is the modern world, this is the modern world

Yeah take a look, tell me what do you see

3. Ex-mental patient it’s all gone wrong

Nothin’ he can do, he’s too far gone

Sleepin’ on the pavement, walk by on the other-side

Count down the days, to his suicide

Ch: This is the modern world, this is the modern world

This is the modern world, for us baby

This is the modern world, this is the modern world

Take a good look ‘cos your children’ll ask you what did you see?

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4. No work for Bill, it ain’t a laugh

He’s getting’ frightened as the years roll past

No money to make Mary his wife

Drinks to the wasteland that’s that left of his life

Ch: This is the modern world, this is the modern world

This is the modern world, for us baby

This is the modern world, this is the modern world

This is the modern world for us baby

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