M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E Modern love It's a method of It's a method of modern love Songs old as the night Are what I've been dreamin' of Method of, method of Love, love, love

Today's Tom Sawyer He gets by on you What you say about his company Is what you say about society The world is, the world is Love and life are deep A modern day warrior Mean, mean stride Mean, mean pride

This brutal love Drop-dead hideous How low is this brutal love Bitters and soda Anguish and shame The modern fool Something for my troubled mind

Rivers get connected so much stronger than expected, well Sick love comes to wash us away Prisons of perspective How your vision gets corrected and Sick love is my modern cliché I don't know but it's been said Your heart is stronger than your head And

He gets by on you Today's Tom Sawyer What you say about his company Is what you say about society The world is, the world is Love and life are deep A modern day warrior Mean, mean stride Mean, mean pride

And I'd love it if we made it Yes, I'd love it if we made it Modernity has failed us Tell me something I didn't know We're fucking in a car, shooting heroin Saying controversial things just for the hell of it Selling melanin and then suffocate the black

Momma loves her baby And daddy loves you too And the sea may look warm to you babe And the sky may look blue Oh baby blue If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life

It was a perfect illusion (perfect illusion) It wasn't love, it wasn't love Mistaken for love, it wasn't love It was a perfect illusion (But I feel you watchin' me) In a modern ecstasy Somewhere in all the confusion Tryin' to get control Pressure's