[Verse 1] Please listen closely, this is breaking news Every time the market rises Somebody's rent goes up Down in a tunnel on Sixth Avenue A sleeping man keeps counting Yesterday's blessings Even though there's nothing left For him to count [Pre-Chorus] The man on TV keeps saying "Everything is safe" Over and over, over and over Until we believe it [Chorus] This is modern times This is modern times It's a game where nobody Tells the truth anymore But I'll still say it out loud The king has nothing on This is modern times This is modern times [Verse 2] Ghosts of Greenwich Village Play the same old chords On guitars from another time They sing, "We've got to change" But nobody dances anymore Only in the advertisements Does the world still smile Only on the screen [Pre-Chorus] The headlines change again And then they disappear Names, faces, all the pain Forgotten year by year [Chorus] This is modern times This is modern times It's a game where nobody Tells the truth anymore But I'll still say it out loud The king has nothing on This is modern times This is modern times [Bridge] After the news about the war A commercial starts to play What scares me most of all Is how I've learned to look away But tonight, just for tonight I won't turn my eyes aside Even with a tiny voice I'll say "No" while I still can [Chorus - Final] This is modern times But still, I keep on singing In a broken corner of the city Someone is still writing The king has nothing on As long as we can say it Something hasn't ended yet Something still remains [Outro] (Thank you for listening...)
