Cinetracts 2020: Post Private Cinema
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The Modern Lovers - RoadrunnerOne two three four five six!
Roadrunner, roadrunner / Going faster miles an hour / Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop / With the radio on / I'm in love with Massachusetts / And the neon when it's cold outside / And the highway when it's late at night / Got the radio on / I'm like the roadrunner
Alright / I'm in love with modern moonlight / 128 when it's dark outside / I'm in love with Massachusetts / I'm in love with the radio on / It helps me from being alone late at night / It helps me from being lonely late at night / I don't feel so bad now in the car / Don't feel so alone, got the radio on / Like the roadrunner / That's right
Said welcome to the spirit of 1956 / Patient in the bushes next to '57 / The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick / Suburban trees, suburban speed / And it smells like heaven (thunder) / And I say roadrunner once / Roadrunner twice / I'm in love with rock & roll and I'll be out all night / Roadrunner / That's right
Well now / Roadrunner, roadrunner / Going faster miles an hour / Gonna drive to the Stop 'n' Shop / With the radio on at night / And me in love with modern moonlight / Me in love with modern rock & roll / Modern girls and modern rock & roll / Don't feel so alone, got the radio on / Like the roadrunner
O.K., now you sing Modern Lovers / (Radio On!) / I got the AM / (Radio On!) / Got the car, got the AM / (Radio On!) / Got the AM sound, got the / (Radio On!) / Got the rockin' modern neon sound / (Radio On!) / I got the car from Massachusetts, got the / (Radio On!) / I got the power of Massachusetts when it's late at night / (Radio On!) / I got the modern sounds of modern Massachusetts / (Radio On!) / I've got the world, got the turnpike, got the / (Radio On!) / I've got the, I've got the power of the AM, got the / (Radio On!) / Late at night, hit 'em wide, with rock & roll late at night / (Radio On!) / The factories and the auto signs / (Radio On!) / We've got the power of modern sounds / (Radio On!) / Alright
Right, bye bye!
The Modern Lovers -
Astral PlaneTonight I'm all alone in my room / I'll go insane if you won't sleep with me / I'll still be with you / I'm gonna meet you on the astral plane / The astral plane for dark at night / The astral plane or I'll go insane
Well I don't see you and it's getting dark / Today we should have gone to Central Park / Well don't you want to see me ever again? / If not I'll meet you on the astral plane / The astral plane for late at night / The astral plane or I'd go insane
Well we've known each other from other lives / I want to see you today / But I'll prove my knowledge of what's inside / When I intercept you on the astral plane / The astral plane for late at night / The astral plane or I'll go insane / Alright
Well I don't see you and it's getting dark / I'd have a lot to say / But you're not the one that I can say it to / At least not today / Oh, well I don't remember it afterwords / I don't yet know the words! / But I know we've been together just this week / We've been together on the astral plane / The astral plane for late at night / The astral plane or I'd go insane
The Modern Lovers - Old WorldWell the old world may be dead / Our parents can't understand / But I still love my parents / And I still love the old world / Oh, I had a New York girlfriend / And she couldn't understand how I could / Still love my parents and still love the old world / So I told her: / I want to keep my place in the old world / Keep my place in the arcane / Cause I still love my parents and I still love the old world / Alright / I say old world / I say old world / I say
Well I see a '50's apartment house / Bleak in the morning sun / But I still love the '50's / And I still love the old world / I wanna keep my place in the old world / Keep my place in the arcane / Cause I still love my parents and I still love the old world / Alright
I see the '50's apartment house / It's bleak in the 1970's sun / But I still love the '50's / And I still love the old world / I wanna keep my place in this old world / Keep my place in the arcane knowledge / And I still love the '50's and I still love the old world
Alright now we say bye bye old world / Gotta help the new world / Oh bye bye / I say bye bye bye bye old world
The Modern Lovers - Pablo PicassoWell some people try to pick up girls / And get called assholes / This never happened to Pablo Picasso / He could walk down your street / And girls could not resist his stare and / So Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole
Well the girls would turn the color / Of the avocado when he would drive / Down their street in his El Dorado / He could walk down your street / And girls could not resist his stare / Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole / Not like you / Alright
Well he was only 5'3" / But girls could not resist his stare / Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole / Not in New York
Oh well be not schmuck, be not obnoxious / Be not bellbottom bummer or asshole / Remember the story of Pablo Picasso / He could walk down your street / And girls could not resist his stare / Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole / Alright this is it
Well / Some people try to pick up girls / And they get called an asshole / This never happened to Pablo Picasso / He could walk down your street / And girls could not resist his stare and so / Pablo Picasso was never called...
The Modern Lovers - I'm StraightI called this number three / Times already today / But I, I got scared, I put it back in place— / I put my phone back in place / I still don't know if I / Should have called up / Look, just tell me why don't you / If I'm out of place / Cause here's your chance to make me feel awkward / And wish that I / Had never even called up this place
I saw you though today / Walk by with hippie Johnny / I had to call up and say how I want to take his place / So this phone call today concerns / Hippie Johnny / He's always stoned, he's never straight / I saw you today, you know, walk by with hippie Johnny / Look, I had to call up and say, I want to take his place / See he's stoned, hippie Johnny / Now get this, I'm straight / And I wanna take his place
Now look, I like him too, I like / Hippie Johnny / But I'm straight / And I want to take his place / I said, I'm straight / I said, I'm straight / I'm proud to say / Well I'm straight / And I wanna take his place
Now I've watched you walk around here / I've watched you meet / These new boyfriends, I know / And you tell how they're deep / Look but, if these guys, if they're really so great / Tell me, why can't they at least take this place and take it straight? / Why always stoned, like hippie Johnny is? / I'm straight and I want to take his place / Oh I'm certainly not stoned, like hippie Johnny is / I'm straight and I want to take his place / I said, I'm straight / I said, I'm straight / I'm / I'm straight and I want to take his place / All right you Modern Lovers what do you say? / (I'm straight!) / Tell the world now / (I'm straight!) / That's it / (I'm straight!) / Yeah I'm straight and I want to take his place
The Modern Lovers - Dignified and OldMy telephone never rings / She'd never call me / I hate myself today / But I can see through this bitterness and sadness / And so I won't die / Someday I think I'll be dignified and old
Well my friends say that I deceive myself / And that I contradict myself / And I can't say if they're right / But I'm not ashamed / Oh I can take a challenge / And so I won't die / Someday I'll be dignified and old / I know it / And I say hey kids / (Hey kids) / I said hey kids / (Hey kids) / I say someday we'll be dignified and old / That's right / I said some day we'll be dignified / (Hey kids, Hey kids) / Someday we'll be dignified / (Hey kids, Hey kids) / Someday we could be dignified and old together
Well now / Look at the mountain / My girl and I used to stand on the mountain / And the sun shines, she's dead, and I cry / But I can see through this death and the sadness / And so I won't die now / Someday I wanna be dignified and old
Well now, see the desert / I sit all alone in the desert / And no girl understands me / But I can see through this bleakness and grey and sadness / And well I won't die now / Someday I'll be dignified and old / I say, you, don't die now / Someday we'll be dignified and old together
The Modern Lovers - She CrackedWell she was sensitive / She understood me / She understood the European things of 1943 / But she does all these things that I can't stand / I can’t care if she stays with another man / She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't / She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right / Well she cracked, I won't
She did things that I don't / She'd self destroy, necessary to self enjoy / I self develop, necessary to self help / She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't / She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right
Well she cracked, I won't / She did things that I don't / She'd eat garbage, eat shit, get stoned / I stay alone, eat health food at home / She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't / She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right / Alright
She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't / She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right
One more time / One more time / She cracked, I'm sad, but I won't / She cracked, I'm hurt, you're right
The Modern Lovers - HospitalWhen you get out of the hospital / Let me back into your life / I can't stand what you do / I'm in love with your eyes / And when you get out of the dating bar / I'll be here to get back into your life / I can't stand what you do / I'm in love with your eyes
Oh, I can't stand what you do / Sometimes I can't stand you / And it makes me think about me / That I'm involved with you / But I'm in love with this power that shows through in your eyes
I go to bakeries all day long / There's a lack of sweetness in my life / And there is pain inside / You can see it in my eyes
Oh there is pain inside / You can see it in my eyes / Makes me think about me / That I've lost my pride / But I'm in love with this power that resides in your eyes
You live in modern apartments / Well I even got scared once or twice / Last time I walked down your street / There were tears in my eyes / Well now these streets / We all know / They help us cry when we're alone late at night / Don't you love them too? / That where you got your eyes?
Oh I can't stand what you do / Sometimes I can't stand you / And it makes me think about me / How I'm involved with you / But I'm in love with this power that shows through in your eyes
Now... your world / It is beautiful / I'll take the subway to your suburb sometime / I'll seek out the places that must have been magic / To your little girl mind / Now as a little girl / You must have been magic / I still get jealous of your old boyfriends / In the suburbs sometimes / And when I walk down your street / Probably be tears in my eyes
I can't stand what you do / Sometimes I can't stand you / And it makes me think about me / That I'm involved with you / But I'm in love with this power that shows through in your eyes
So... when you get out of the hospital / Let me back into your life / I can't stand what you do / But I'm in love with your eyes
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The Modern Lovers - Someone I Care AboutWell I don't want just a girl to fool around with / Well I don't want just a girl to ball alright / What I want is a girl that I care about / Or I want nothing at all / Alright
Well I won't pretend I like a girl if I really don't / And act like she's great when she makes me feel appalled / All I want is a girl that I care about / Or I want nothing at all
Well I don't want some cocaine sniffing triumph in the bar / Well I don't want a triumph in the car / I don't want to make a rich girl crawl / What I want is a girl that I care about / Or I want no one at all / Alright, listen to this now
Picture this: / I'm walking with my girlfriend / 28 misguided souls combined say, "We're moving in" / There's a certain kind of girl that you care about so much / You say, "I don't care what you guys do to me, but her, DON'T TOUCH!"
'Cause I don't want just a girl to fool around with / I don't want just a girl to ball / What I want is a girl that I care about / Or I want nothing at all / Oh alright
Well I don't want a girl to fool around with no / I don't want just a girl to ball no / What I want is a girl that I care about / Or I want nothing at all
Alright gentlemen
The Modern Lovers - Girl FriendIf I were to walk to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston / Well, first I'd go to the room where they keep the Cézanne / But if I had by my side a girlfriend / Then I could look through the paintings / I could look right through them / Because I'd have found something that I understand / I understand a girlfriend
That's a girl friend / Said G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N / That's a girlfriend, baby / That's something that I understand / Alright
I walk through the Fenway / I have my heart in my hands / I understand a girlfriend
That's a girl friend / Oh that's a G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N / Well that's a girlfriend, baby / That's something that I understand
Four o'clock in the afternoon in the Fenway / I have my heart in my hands
I undertand a girlfriend / That's a girlfriend / That's G-I-R-L-F-R-E-N / That's a girlfriend, baby / Well that's something that I understand
The Modern Lovers - Modern WorldWell there's sex in the sunny day / That shines down on Boylston Street / And I love the U.S.A / So share the modern world with me / Cause I'm in love with the U.S.A. now / I'm in love with the modern world now / Put down your cigarette / And drop out of B.U / Alright / That's right
Well out in the afternoon / Out in the arid plane / We'll share a modern love / Under suburban rain / And me in love with the U.S.A. now / And me in love with the modern world now / Put down the cigarette / And act like a true girl, oh
Well out on Route 9 / It's bleak and nearly dying / Stop all this weak stuff / And drop out of B.U.! / With me in love with the U.S.A. now / Me in love with the modern world now / Put down the cigarette / And drop out of high school, oh / Oh that's right
Well I'm in love with the U.S.A. now / I'm in love with the modern world now / Put down the cigarette / And act like a true girl
Well listen / Well the modern world is not so bad / Not like the students say / In fact I'd be in heaven / If you'd share the modern world with me / [CARD FULL] / With me in love with the U.S.A. now / With me in love with the modern world now / Put down the cigarette / And share the modern world with me
The Modern Lovers - Government CenterYou know, we have a lot of hard work to do today / What might that be, Jonathan?
Well we've got a lot a lot of hard work today / We got to rock at the Government Center / To make the secretaries feel better / When they put the stamps on the letter
They got a lot a lot a lot of great desks and chairs now / At the Government Center / Where they put the stamps on the letter / And then they write it down in the ledger
So we got to rock rock rock non stop tonight / At the Government Center / Where they put the stamps on the letter / And then they write it down in the ledger
We won't stop until we see secretaries smile / And see some office boys jump up for joy / We'll tell old Mr. Ahern "Calm down a while / Sir, that's the only way the Center is ever going to get better"
So we got to rock rock rock non stop tonight / At the Government Center / Where they put the stamps on the letter / And then they write it down in the ledger
Oh, tonight we'll make them feel all right / Oh, tonight / What you say man? / Make them feel better / Oh yes, tonight / We'll go there tonight / We'll take everything we've got / We'll take the amps / We'll take the guitars / We'll do anything just to make these secretaries feel better / At the Government Center
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