modern man

You know, sometimes you sail to hard into the wind

You don’t get very far or fast that way

Gotta to be like Bogart or like Errol Flynn

They each owned the world in their own day

Chorus: What good is this you say

In the life of the modern man

If you don’t know I can’t make you understand  

One day you’ll find out who I am

I am the modern man, yeah I am the modern man

Or I could be like Dillinger or Jessie James

Outlaws and heroes to this day

Or elegant and cool like Maurice Chevalier

a lady killing, debonair , good lay

Chorus: What good is this you say

In the life of the modern man

If you don’t know I can’t make you understand  

One day you’ll find out who I am

I am the modern man, yeah I am the modern man

Or I could be a man of intrigue and mystery

You know like Harry Houdini had to say

Or do something that would go down in history

So they’d teach my name to kids in school someday

Chorus: What good is this you say

In the life of the modern man

If you don’t know I can’t make you understand  

One day you’ll find out who I am

I am the modern man, yeah I am the modern man

Or I could be the one that’s behind this guitar

Sneaking in your window after light

A melody from a nearby passing car

That takes the song along into the night

Chorus: What good is this you say

In the life of the modern man

If you don’t know I can’t make you understand  

One day you’ll find out who I am

I am the modern man, yeah I am the modern man