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Modern Love

from Songs for Modern Loving by Helen Arney

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This is Modern Love.

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LYRICS - Modern Love

I wanted to be Justine Frischman
lead singer of Elastica
I wanted to be Damon Albarn
Just so I could get close her
But I didn’t want her clothes, her hair
Or to get in Damon’s underwear
All I wanted was to be
23 not age 13
Experience what made her write those songs
Songs of Modern Love

I wanted to be Ben Folds
So much that it made me sick
I wanted to be in his band
The four of us would have been Ben Folds Six
Not because I wanted to
Play the piano like an utter loon
But cos he made me think I might not
Be a girl for the rest of my life
But a woman who can write all of her songs
Songs of Modern Love

I wanted to be Neil Hannon
Of the Divine Comedy
I had everything he wrote
On tape cassingle and then CD
Every day I would obsess
About turning into frog princess
So I could live like Generation
Sex, Promenade & Liberation
Casanova, Regeneration
Victory & A Short Album

Now it’s turned into a list
Of everything he put on disc
But I didn’t think the new one would fit
Cos nothing useful rhymes with it
But listening to Bang Goes the Knighthood
Makes me think that maybe I should
Spend the rest of my life writing songs
My songs of Modern love

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from Songs for Modern Loving, released August 1, 2010
Ukulele and all vocals by Helen Arney

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Helen Arney London, UK

"Geek Songstress" Helen Arney is the UK's finest purveyor of comedy songs with a scientifically verified twist.

"Champion of musical whims" Evening Standard
**** ”Harnesses the spirit of Ben Folds & the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon… delightful” (Chortle)

Also one third of Festival of the Spoken Nerd and author of "The Element In The Room"
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