Modern World lyrics

Sitting alone in his rocking chair with a pistol in his hand,

Karl Dane got nothing left to give.

You see his face at the picture show

in the silent days, the only life that he'd know,

but by the middle of April he had no reason to live.

But when he opened his mouth, you'd probably say the same.

Invention of sound, and Karl Dane was out of the game.

Give him a job, $5 a day.

Yeah, the studio said that that was all they would pay,

and when they found him dead,

He left himself for no one to claim.

It's a modern world that we live in

and you got no place to go.

It's a modern world that we live in

and it just ain't made for me.

In the show of the freaks, yeah, I would probably guess

you'd find her standing there with hair from her chin to her chest,

and then they shut it down, they found it politically incorrect.

So it was on with the high heels and off with the beard.

When she had a good shave she didn't look half weird,

so now its nights on the corners just to come up with rent.

And it's a shame the way Marcel would treat her so unkind

She picked up the pipe to make it through the day.

Well you can find her there, face down in the drain.

2 inches of water in the grave that she lay.

It's a modern world that we live in

and you got no place to go.

It's a modern world that we live in

and it just ain't made for me.

Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid,

Ain't no room inside this world for all the things that they did.

Yeah, Rudolph Valentino, even Cool Hand Luke

Just like a king, queen, pharaoh, like a jester or duke.

Robert Lewis Stevenson and Jekyll and Hyde

Ed Gene, The Unibomber, Bonnie and Clyde.

Randal McMurphy, I think he flew too high.

Miles Davis, Ellington, and Holiday

Even Dylan's having trouble trying to make it today

Well, it's a shame to say "That's just the way that it goes".

Gene Kelly tap-dancing, singing the blues

Bootlegging whiskey, prohibition of booze.

I don't know what to do, I'll just have to learn I suppose.

It's a modern world that we live in

and you got no place to go.

It's a modern world that we live in

and it just ain't made for me.

It's a modern world that we live in.

It's a modern world that we live in.

It's a modern world that we live in

It's a modern world that we live in...

It's a modern world that we live in

and you got no place to go

It's a modern world that we live in

and it just ain't made for me.

• Artist:Rusty Cage
• Album:Heretics