Rusty Cage - Modern World lyrics

Sitting alone in his rocking chair with a pistol in his hand Karl Dane has got nothing left to give You see his face at the picture show In the silent days, the only life that he'd know But by the middle of April he had no reason to live And when he opened his mouth, you'd probably say the same Invention of sound, and Karl Dane was out of the game Give him a job, $5 a day Yeah, the studio said that that was all they would pay And when they found him dead He left himself for no one to claim It's a modern world that we live in and you got no play to go It's a modern world that we live in and it just ain't made for me In the show of the freaks, yeah, I would probably guess You'd find her standing there with hair from her chin to her chest And then they shut it down, they found it politically incorrect So it was on with the high heels and off with the beard When she had a good shave she didn't look half weird So now its nights on the corners just to come up with rent And it's a shame the way Marcel would treat her so unkind She picked up the pipe to make it through the day Well you can find her there, face down in the drain 2 inches of water in the grave that she lay It's a modern world that we live in and you got no play to go It's a modern world that we live in and it just ain't made for me Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid Ain't no room inside this world for all the things that they did Yeah, Rudolph Valentino, even Cool Hand Luke Just like a king, queen, pharaoh, like a jester or duke Robert Lewis Stevenson and Jekyll and Hyde Ed Gene, The Unibomber, Bonnie and Clyde Randal McMurphy, I think he flew too high Miles Davis, Ellington, and Holiday Even Dylan's having trouble trying to make it today It's a shame to say "That's just the way that it goes" Gene Kelly tap-dancing, singing the blues Bootlegging whiskey, prohibition of booze I don't know what to do, I'll just have to learn I suppose It's a modern world that we live in and you got no play to go It's a modern world that we live in and it just ain't made for me