 songs & lyrics Modern Man (Unreleased)  Modern Man is a song about men ascribing perfection to their own systems. In other words, it's a song about deception. I wrote it just after I returned from living in Hong Kong, in 1992. The verse addressed to the communist was based on a story I read in the South China Morning Post during Christmas 1991. Final version of lyrics: Sunday, March 15th, 1992 Modern Man (Unreleased) Here's a song for Modern Man, a phrase old as years. Repeats the sins of his grandfather, calls himself a pioneer. Plays truant from the school of history, says he knows it oh so well. He mocks himself by the things he does and distracts himself to hell. Yes, he mocks himself by the things he does and distracts himself to hell. Here's a song for Mystery, New Age Mother of the sky, Drunk on the blood of the innocents and the ones that will not die. She wears beauty and truth like a veil, she's dressed to make you stop a while But the jaws of a raging tiger lie beneath that lovely smile. Yes, the jaws of a raging tiger lie beneath that lovely smile. Here's a song for Patricia, the one that never was. She waits on every street corner, inviting you to pause, "Taste the honey on my lips, on my bed we can laze for days." But she'll fill your life with the milk of pain and take you into the grave. Yes, she'll fill your life with the milk of pain and take you into the grave. Here's a song for the communist who wants a perfect state. Let me tell you what your poor misunderstood Chinese buddies did of late. Opened the stadiums in each province, a lesson then to teach. Lined up a hundred junkies in every single one and put a bullet in each. Lined up a hundred junkies in every single one and put a bullet in each. Here's a song for religious man whose righteous acts stun you. Judges himself by who he rejects and by what he doesn't do No sex, no drugs, no politics, wears his bible like a gun. Just tell him his god created the universe with a word and he doesn't need your help, son. Spring 1992, London 
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