Lyrics to
The Modern World

This version of The Modern World was released by The Jam in 1977.

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This is a modern world
This is the modern world

What kind of a fool do you think I am?
You think I know nothing of the modern world
All my life has been the same
I’ve learned to live by hate and pain
It’s my inspiration drive

I’ve learned more than you’ll ever know
Even at school I felt quite sure
That one day I would be on top
And I’d look down upon the map
The teachers who said I’d be nothing

This is the modern world that I’ve learnt about
This is the modern world, we don’t need no one
To tell us what’s right or wrong

Say what you like ’cause I don’t care
I know where I am and going too
It’s somewhere I won’t preview
Don’t have to explain myself to you
I don’t give two fucks about your review

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About Lyrics and The Modern World by The Jam

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Modern World, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by The Jam. Some of the lyrics to The Modern World have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Jam and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Modern World if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Modern World" means the words set to the music of The Modern World, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Jam. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Modern World and the lyrics to The Modern World are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Jam who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Modern World, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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