Modern World Songtext
von David Wilcox

In the future that they used to imagine
The one they pictured in those old magazines
Their tomorrowland is so old fashioned
The delusion of the modern dream
But they had the skyway to the city towers
And we′re still rocking over stones and tar
I've been crawling down the freeway for hours
I want my fusion-powered flying car

This ain′t the modern world that I remember
The one they promised all us boys and girls
This ain't the vision that the artist rendered
What happened to my modern world?
What happened to my modern world?


They said my leisure time was gonna be bitching
I'd have my holographic TV phone
And we′d be cooking in our one-button kitchen
In our aluminum dimaxian home
We′d be enlightened ones leading the nations
Bringing peace around the world at last
A utopia of cooperation
Where injustice is a thing of the past

This ain't the modern world that I remember
The one they promised all us boys and girls
This ain′t the vision that the artist rendered
What happened to my modern world?
What happened to my modern world?

Just a bunch of big baby boomers
Trying to snatch the last cookie and run
It's such a comfort to the guilty consumer
If Armageddon had already begun
′Cause if the world's a box of chocolate cherries
Then they′d just use it up and toss it away
They make it post-apocalyptic and scary
To even dream about the future today


This ain't the modern world that I remember
The one they promised all us boys and girls
This ain't the vision that the artist rendered
What happened to my modern world?
This ain′t the modern world that I remember
The one they promised all us boys and girls
This ain′t the vision that the artist rendered
What happened to my modern world?

What happened to my modern world?
What happened to my modern world?

What happened to my modern world?