DAVID BOWIE - MODERN LOVE

MODERN LOVE

DAVID BOWIE

SONGWRITER: DAVID BOWIE

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LET’S DANCE

LABEL: EMI AMERICA

GENRE: ROCK AND ROLL

YEAR: 1983

"Modern Love" is a song written and recorded by David Bowie. It was the opening track to his fifteenth studio álbum Let's Dance. It was issued as the third single from the album in 1983.

Bowie claimed the song was inspired by Little Richard, and it maintains the album's theme of a struggle between God and man. The line "Get me to the church on time" from the lyrics is the title of "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady.

By the time "Modern Love" was issued and edited as a single, Bowie's Serious Moonlight Tour was underway. The track had become a popular encore on the tour, and Jim Yukich's video for the song used footage of Bowie and his band performing the song from concert in Philadelphia on 20 July 1983. A live version, recorded in Montreal on 13 July, was on the B-side.

The single reached No. 2 in the UK, and No. 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. As well as being a staple of the tour, it featured in Bowie's set at Live Aid in 1985, and in his subsequent Glass Spider Tour and Sound+Vision Tour of 1987 and 1990. A re-recording with Tina Turner was also featured on a Pepsi commercial in 1987.

I know when to go out

And when to stay in

Get things done

I catch a paper boy

But things don't really change

I'm standing in the wind

But I never wave bye-bye

But I try

I try

There's no sign of life

It's just the power to charm

I'm lying in the rain

But I never wave bye-bye

But I try

I try

Never gonna fall for

Modern love walks beside me

Modern love walks on by

Modern love gets me to the church on time

Church on time terrifies me

Church on time makes me party

Church on time puts my trust in God and man

God and man no confessions

God and man no religion

God and man don't believe in modern love

It's not really work

It's just the power to charm

Still standing in the wind

But I never wave bye-bye

But I try

I try

Never gonna fall for

Modern love walks beside me

Modern love walks on by

Modern love gets me to the church on time

Church on time terrifies me

Church on time makes me party

Church on time puts my trust in God and man

God and man no confessions

God and man no religion

God and man don't believe in modern love

Modern love walks beside me

Modern love walks on by

Modern love gets me to the church on time

Church on time terrifies me

Church on time makes me party

Church on time puts my trust in God and man

God and man no confessions

God and man no religion

God and man don't believe in modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love

Modern love walks beside me

Modern love walks on by

Modern love walks beside me

Modern love walks on by

Never gonna fall for

Modern love

Modern love.