modern world

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 living, 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, and lives, 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, 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