| On the boulevard where broken dreams
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| Breathe on the covers of my magazines
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| And the rats pay homage to the local sleaze
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| Before they bleed them dry
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| There goes crazy Jean
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| She’s got electric eyes
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| From the trackbox running up and down her thighs
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| An ole' skinny boy he just looks outside and screams
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| Hey you Puerto-Rican
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| Fast cars
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| (Fast cars)
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| Fast living
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| (Fast cars)
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| What happened to my world?
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| This ain’t gonna love
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| This ain’t love
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| This is being a knight in the modern world
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| Living in hate in the modern world
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| Ain’t no black or white in the modern world
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| Just you and me babe, in the modern world
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| Well the mayor’s hobby is doing crack
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| While the homeless go hungry right out back
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| And those union boys down on Bentno street
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| Wouldn’t know how to stack those cards
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| And there’s a trump card dealing in stocks and wives
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| When the maple tree keeps 'em warm tonight
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| See the apple rot watch the bugs they crawl
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| On the steps of the Taj Mahal
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| Cheap crime
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| (Big crime)
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| And lives
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| (No time)
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| What happened to my world?
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| This ain’t gonna love
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| This ain’t love
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| Yeah this is life and death in the modern world
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| This is what you get in the modern world
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| And you better bet that in a modern world
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| It’s you and me babe,
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| Just you and me babe,
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| in the modern world
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| Where there’s nowhere to run to
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| The modern world
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| Better get your gun
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| Hey!
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| Hey!
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| Yeah, it’s a jungle out there
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| Hey!
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| Well there’s no tomorrow, but we got tonight
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| I have to trade my blade for a thunder fight
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| I was much too young for your Vietnam
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| But there’s a war going on in my homeland
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| (This ain’t love)
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| (Well this ain’t love)
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| Well it’s dog eat dog in the modern world
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| Live and die in the modern world
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| There’s no way to sense it in the modern world
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| It’s you and me in the modern world
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| Only heroes die in the modern world
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| No one cries in the modern world
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| And you gotta fight in the modern world
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| Cause it’s you and me babe
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| You and me baby
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| You and me babe
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| in the modern world |