There's a new boy on the streets of San Francisco
There's a new girl on the streets of Paris France
and they all dance they all dance they all dance
to a modern modern trance

We were working late one night when it finally hit us
we work to pay for our last day's demise
so look in my eyes look in my eyes
do you think you see a man who's going to go down without a fight?
without a fight?

No no no no no no no
how does the modern trane go
and if we die before we wake
we'll know how much more we can take

But the new boy catches looks like he's a vampire
and the new girl sees herself as a link in a chain
the sun is bright today it's bright today, bright today
but I'm never going to look away

So I'll sing it once for those I've lost and laughed with
and I'll sing it to the ones who sit the fence
cause they all dance they all dance they all dance
to a modern modern modern trance

a modern
Trance to stay and trance to go
the sun is bright yeah yeah I know
but if we die before we wake
I'll know how much more we can take

There are posers in the clubs and the cathedrals
there are squatters on the streets of Paris france
and they all dance...

So one more time before I go
the sun is bright yeah yeah I know
and if we die before we wake
I'll know how much more we can take

Take take take...

But I won't forgive her, take me to a river
I will forgive her, take me home
I won't forgive her, take me to a river
I will forgive her, take me home