Modern love    (intro)

 

    E - D - A - E (3x)     + E - D - A

 

       F                          Am                                  G

1. Hey, I'm feeling so dirty, you're looking so clean,

            F                                     Am                                  G 

    and all you can give me is a spin in your washing machine.

     Dm                              - Bb

    I fly off to Rome to my           prima bella,

            Dm                                           Bb            C

    she leaves me in the rain with telescopic umbrella.

 

              C    - C-G-F                                          C     - G-Bb-F

Ah, the pain,               modern love can be a strain !

              C    - C-G-F                                          C     - G-Bb-F

Ah, the pain,               modern love can be a strain !

 

    F                        Am                                           G

2.      I trusted my Venus was untouched in her shell,

                   F                                 Am                                   G

    but the pearls, the pearls in her oyster were as tacky as hell.

           Dm                 Bb

    For Lady Godiva I came incognito,

           Dm                            Bb                C

    her driver had stolen her red hot magneto.

 

              C    - C-G-F                                          C     - G-Bb-F

Ah, the pain,               modern love can be a strain !

              C    - C-G-F                                          C     - G-Bb-F

Ah, the pain,               modern love can be a strain !

 

+ Am - E

 

        E                                                      C#m

    I don't know why they leave me in the lurch,

                               C                                  D

    to carry on the search that's driving me up the wall.

      E                                      C#m

    Pity, when I have so much passion,

                                  C                                 D                   E

    romance is out of fashion, can't handle modern love at all !

 

+ E - D - A - E (3x)     + E - D - A

 

 

 

 

 

 

     F                    Am                                  G

3. So I worship Diana by the light of the moon,

F                                Am                                   G

    when I pull out my pipe she screams out of tune.

         Dm                                       Bb

    In Paris my heart sinks when I see my Mona Lisa,

           Dm                                          Bb                   C

    she gives me the wink, then she shows me the freezer.

 

              C    - C-G-F                                          C     - G-Bb-F

Ah, the pain,               modern love can be a strain !

              C    - C-G-F                                          C     - G-Bb-F

Ah, the pain,               modern love can be a strain !

 

+ repeat CHORUS and fade...

 

    (Peter Gabriel)