Modern Living is a Mess

RICK

[first note B below mid c]

V1 Modern living is a mess

Just look at [IKEA] [all our gear]

Use it once then throw it away

What are we doin’ here

BR1 ‘ The TV tells us

What you could have what you must have

But then everything just turns to dust

V2 I thought I could carry on

Taking and not giving

But buying into status quo

I’d hardly call that living

BR2 Oh when they tell us

What you can do what you can’t do

I now see that we have lost our way

CH

I’m no super hero

Raining down flaming arrows

I’m no great white saviour

Just twanging on a selfish guitar

V3 Now I want to get involved

Add my voice to protest

Its too late the door is closed

Failing tired and depressed

BR3 couldn’t find the Simple life

Moving on escapes us

I have lost my reason and my life

CHORUS [ RPT]

I’m no super hero

Raining down flaming arrows

I’m no great white saviour

Just twanging on this selfish guitar

MIDDLE 8

on my own now stuck here on my own now

locked down with my personality

My weak nature / always avoiding danger

the past is now the future forever

INSTRUMENTAL CH HERE

Final Chorus

I’m no superhero

[GAP]

I’m no great white savior

PLAY OUT

Just me vain and selfish

No use to anyone else

No use to you

Let you down