Modern Love

Album: Peter Gabriel (first, car) (1977)
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  • Hey, I'm feeling so dirty, you're looking so clean
    All you can give is a spin in your washing machine
    I fly off to Rome to my prima bella
    She leaves me in the rain with telescopic umbrella
    Ooh the pain -- Modern love can be a strain

    I trusted my Venus was untouched in her shell
    But the pearls in her oyster were as tacky as hell
    For Lady Godiva I came incognito
    But her driver had stolen her red hot magneto
    Ooh the pain, modern love can be a strain

    I don't know why they leave me in the lurch
    To carry on the search
    It's driving me up the wall
    Pity when I have so much passion
    Romance is out of fashion
    Can't handle modern love at all

    So I worship Diana by the light of the moon
    When I pull out my pipe she screams out of tune
    In Paris my heart sinks when I see the Mona Lisa
    She gives me the wink, then she shows me the freezer
    Ooh the pain
    Modern love can be a strain Writer/s: PETER GABRIEL
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Jim from Long Beach, CaOne of the very first documeted music video with a story line, well sort of..LOL!!!
  • Pete from Ny, NyGabriel was on the Springsteen bandwagon in 1976. This was definitely influenced by him. Great cut.
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