VERSE ONE A A9 It was a modern love affair B A Completely cool and casual A9 They hardly knew each other was there B A I mean both of them had their own getting off to do B And they had to dream about their own self A When they were through VERSE TWO D E But the modern girl was elated D E With what the revolution gave her D E D And since she was liberated she could have E Everything that striked her fancy VERSE THREE A A9 And she fancied quite a bit B A I mean if it felt good she did it A9 And she did it every chance she could get B A B With her main modern man and otherwise A B A And her taste wasn't limited to just modern guys VERSE FOUR D E Since another modern girl showed her D E That modern girls know how to hold her D E And after she had her eyes opened D E All her old close friends started getting closer B F#m E A Asus4 And new friends weren't that far far away VERSE FIVE A E But the modern man he just wasn't so lucky F#m E B E He being shook from his usual role as a heartbreaker A E He was completely battered and bewildered F#m E F#m E When he actually started in feeling something for her F#m D And he then, he discovered a new emotion A E When they stopped ending up together as frequently F#m A And when he finally confronted her with the question F#m E F#m Had she been bedding down with others in the periphery without him? D And she replied, Hell yes ain't it funny? VERSE SIX A AAB A So view the modern man looking, looking, looking, like a soft, soft Picasso A9 He's there with his head in his hand B A Repeating to himself an epigram B A Live by the scam, die by the scam