Modern Love
Peter Gabriel • Key:
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Modern Love
Peter Gabriel
#From: bgg@connect.com.au (Ben Golding)
#This is from Peter Gabriel's first self-titled album from about '77.
Intro, four times
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F
Hey I'm feeling so
Am
dirty, you're looking so
G
clean
F
All you can give me is a
Am
spin in your washing
G
machine
F
I fly off to Rome to my
Dm
prima bella
F
She leaves me in the rain with a
Dm
telescopic umbrella
Chorus
C
Ooh the pain
C
G
F
--
C
Modern love can be a strain
C
G
Bb
F
C
Ooh the pain
C
G
F
--
C
Modern love can be a strain
C
G
Bb
F
I trusted my venus was untouched in her shell
But the pearls in her system were as tacky as hell
For Lady Godiva I came incognito
But her driver had stolen her red hot magneto
Chorus
Bridge:
A
E
E
I don't know why they leave me in the
C#m
lurch
To carry on the
C
search
It's driving me
D
up the wall
E
When I have so much
C#m
passion
Romance is out of
C
fashion
I can't handle
D
Modern love at all
Intro, twice
So I worship Diana by the light of the moon
When I pull out my pipe she screams out of tune
In Paris my heart sinks when I see the Mona Lisa
She gives me the wink, then shows me the freezer
Chorus, twice
Speed