Modern Times

Jefferson Starship Modern Times Lyrics
1.Alien

Are you an alien
Are you from this earth
Would you care to tell me
Details of birth
Did you just emerge from thin air
Can you even tell me
Are you really there
Jet age dreams
From days gone by
The circle in te forest
Where they dnced beneath the sky
...beneath the sky...
Beneath the sky

Do you know my thoughts
Can you read my mind
Would you dare to tell me
What it is you find
Come on now tell me what you find
What lays hidden in my mind
I can see through you
I can hear you too
I can feel you touch my mind

Did they paint your face
In ancient times
Were they talking 'bout you
In celtic rhymes
Can i just reach out
Pull back the shroud
Would you let me hold you
Would it be allowed

Are you the legend
Did they call you seer
Would you let me hold you
Would ou disappear...
Alien...


2.Find Your Way Back

It's been a long, long road
Since i packed up and left on my own
And i carry a heavy load
Just try 'n' get back to her heart

I sure ain't got no home
I seem to find love where i ramble
And when it's time to go
I hear that voice again... say'n'

Chorus
Find your way back...
Find your way back to her heart
Find your way back...
Find your way back to her heart

Leave a message with the rain
You can find me where the wind blows
The snow across the pain
And the frost upon the heart

(you got no place to be
Still you wonder where you're goin')
And why i had to leave
I hear a voice... it says to me

Repeat chorus

I know it's too late now
But, i wish i could go back in time
And start all over somehow
And get it right from the start

Repeat chorus


3.Free

Her mamma don't like it
There's not a lot that she can do
Her daddy don't like it
She's stayin' out till after two

She likes to go her own way
Wild, reckless and bold
You can't hold her down boy
With diamond ring or fools gold

Chorus
She's free so free
Free free free runnin' like a wild child
Free free free you kinda gotta like her style
Free free free don't she make you wanna smile

She likes ti feel the night time
That is when she gets her kicks
Anytime's the right time
Cause just can't get enough of it

Repeat chorus

She'll get your temperature risin'
Like no othre girl you've known
She's full of surprises
Livin' in he danger zone

Repeat chorus


4.Mary

Mary, i'll love her all my life
But she'll never be my wife
She broke my heart - broke my trust
Now i can't believe that she's seriuos

I love her, but i will never marry mary
Never marry mary...

Restless and wild - she runs away
Comes back and tells me she's here to stay
Tried to give her time but she wanted more
Now i just don't feel like i did before

I love her, but i will never marry mary
Never mary mary...

Mary, i tried to understand
But i can't stay here at your command
Got to break away - it's been too long
Still i can't say all the feeling's gone

I love her, but i will never marry mary
Never mary mary...


5.Modern Times

When i was a young boy i drove my mother crazy
When i was a young man i drove my teachers wild
Oh whoa oh whoa nobody to con-trol me
Oh whoa modern lover i need you near me

Chorus
Never want to leave ya
Never want to leave ya
Never want to leave ya
No no no no no

Reality anonymous is comin' after me
They want me shakin' they want me screamin'
Outside 12 year olds are carryin' machine guns
They give the orders i must be dreamin'

Everywhere i go 'n' everything i see
It's all startin' to look like
Some strange mythology
Where is the spirit where is the fire

Repeat chorus

And then i broke in two
Ya don't really think everything is really
The way you thought you thought it was did you
I broke in two but now i think it's time to move

Move
Move
Move
Move me

Watch out
Machine gun machine gun
Oh whoa oh whoa nobody to control me
Oh whoa oh whoa nobody to convince me
That everything is just gonna be o-k

Never gonna leave ya
Never gonna leave ya
Never gonna leave ya
No no no no no
No no no no no
No no nobody to control me


6.Save Your Love

Go on out and gain the world
But don't you lose your soul
While you're trying
Your truth is changing every day
But your heart will let you
Know when you're lying
Well, you're running
Running from me now
Running like you've got a race to win
Now you tell me our romance is over
Time for you to start again

Chorus
Save your love and tenderness
Don't get lost in bitterness
Save the dreams you had when we started
Do the things you have to do
But don't forget the love we knew
Don't lose your love cause we've parted

You say you can't tell right from wrong
Confusion's pulled the reins tight in your soul
Tight in your soul
Think it's all going to make sense
That accomplishments are gonna make you whole
Following
Following confusion
Running from someone who looks like me
Stop and take a look inside you
Now you tell me who it is you see

Repeat chorus


Want)

Whatcha gonna do about cleveland?
Whatcha gonna do about rock & roll?
Whatcha gonna do about crazy crazy?
Whatcha gonna do about it?

Hey we gotta a new band - a new face - a new time!
Sing a song of rock & roll & drive us all crazy
People tell me everything i need to know about
Rock & roll
Politics n' all about our new band
But some people never happy 'don't like it' - 'didn't see it' oh
oh
They had to make a comment!

Your new drummer's crazy, your manager's an asshole! get a new
shirt?
I can't stand your guitar player!

Rolling stone, village voice, picky picky picky!
Said we can't sing, can't play, can't write anyway!
New name - old name - carry on, with such insane fuckers
everywhere,

Whatcha gonna do about it?
Whatcha gonna do about crazy crazy?
Whatcha gonna do about romance?
Whatcha gonna do about tense moments?

So i gotta new girl blonde girl big mouth big heart y'know i
like her,
But they say she's too noisy, atomic girl! ... atomic girl!

New york - l.a. times rock & roll magazines, said we couldn't
make it
But here we go again on rock and roll radio, rock and roll
radio,
People tell me everything i need to hear about what we need,
what we
Got, what we're never gonna get

Old singers gone away - whatcha gonna do about it? gold records
rock &
Roll n' why dontcha sound like you used to in '65? '69? '75?
Everybody stand up, they got to make a comment, critics said
they'll
Never make it, never make it, never never never never never
never never
Never never!

Fuck you! we do what we want!

Chaos comin', keep strummin', louder & louder & louder & louder,
Whatcha gonna do about it? whatcha gonna do about crazy crazy?
whatcha
Gonna do about it? whatcha gonna do about dark ages? whatcha
gonna do
About nite time? whatcha gonna do about walter cronkite? whatcha
gonna
Do about romance? whatcha gonna do about the economic price
index?

Whatcha gonna do about llluuuuuv? whatcha gonna do about tense
moments?

Whatcha gonna do about crazy crazy crazy crazy?
Whatcha gonna do about it? (7 times)

War & toxic chemicals and mister rogers n' true love n' the end
of
Civilization n' muzak n' the ptl club n' ronald reagan n' guns
n' the
Draft, b52's n' nuclear fission dc-10's n' cancer science
fiction brain
Control drugs n' sex n' buddha n' 714s 45s eight billion people
jesus
Krishna n' everybody n' rock and roll surrealism - everything
Everything everything everything!

Fuck you! we do what we want!


8.Stranger

Raindrops falling
Winter feels so gloomy
Hear a knock upon my door
Stranger calling
Eyes that look like mine
He said you know i've called before

Chorus
What is veiled now soon will be shown
Come walk with me through the unknown

Familiar stranger
Should i know your name
Did we meet some time ago
I feel uncertain
Shadows whisper to me now
Sudden wind begins to blow

Repeat chorus

Darkened doorways
Strangest things can happen
Don't know who you're talking to
Find yourself
When lightning strikes you now
You could be looking back at you

Repeat chorus twice

Stranger!

Familiar stranger
Should i know your name
Did we meet some time ago
Are you someone i should know
Did we meet some time ago


9.Wildeyes(Angel)

I got a girl with her eyes wide open
Her vision pierces the sky
Her name is angel 'n' she's just like a raven
Wild eyes

No one can tell me no no nobody knows
Where she comes from or where she goes
Such a dangerous girl with her dreams intact
Wild eyes

Chorus
Now now angel
Now now wild eyes
Now now angel
Now now wild eyes

Off the planet and across your brains
Break the walls i'm in love again
And even telepathic children
Have to eat their vegetables
Wild eyes

There were days when we linked our arms
Swayed and sang with our fists in the air
And as the sirens sang we asked for more
With wild eyes
Angel and i need more of what's real
And we want it now

Repeat chorus

Like a shadow on the walls of time
Like a soldier at the walls of troy
Like a lover at your heart again
I wanna break through