Lyric Modern Dance

Maybe I should go and live in Amsterdam
in a side street near a big canal
spend my evenings in the Van Gogh Museum
what a dream, Van Gogh Museum

Maybe its time to see Tangiers
a different life-style, some different fears
and maybe I should be in Edinburgh
in a kilt in Edinburgh

Doin a modern dance
doin a modern dance

Or maybe I should get a farm in southern France
where the winds are wispy and the villagers dance
and you and I we d sleep beneath a moon
moon in June and sleep till noon

And maybe you and I could fall in love
regain the spirit that we once had
you d let me hold you and touch the night
that shines so bright, so bright with fright

Doin a modern dance
doin a modern dance

Shit, maybe I could go to Yucatan
where women are women, a man s a man
ah, no one confused, ever loses place
with their place in the human race

Maybe I m not cut out for city life
the smell of exhaust, the smell of strife
and maybe you don t wanna be a wife
it s not a life being a wife

Doin a modern dance
doin a modern dance

So maybe I should go to Tanganyika
where the rivers run, down mountains tall and steep
or go to India to study chants
and lose romance to a mantra s dance

I need a guru, I need some law
explain to me the things we saw
why it always comes to this
it s all downhill after the first kiss

Maybe I should move to Rotterdam
maybe move to Amsterdam
I should move to Ireland, Italy, Spain
Afghanistan where there is no rain

Or maybe I should just learn a modern dance
where roles are shifting the modern dance
you never touch you don t know who you re with
this week, this month, this time of year
this week, this month, this time of year

Doin a modern dance
you don t know who you re with modern dance
I should move to Pakistan, go to Afghanistan
Dance, you don t know who you re with
dance, you don t know who you re with
modern dance
And maybe you don t wanna be a wife
it s not life being a wife
doin a modern dance
you never touch you don t know who you re with
Dance, modern dance
the roles are shifting dance
you never touch you don t know who you re with
Dance, modern dance
maybe you don t wanna be a wife
it s not a life being a wife