When I was a boy simple times, simple joy and life was not full of hate and chaos a modern man lives in some kind of hurricane I need your love to keep me calm when the world is a storm Hell fire man desire downtown scream siren ghetto gun drug lord kill children stillborn asphalt flesh bone trash bag alley bomb Hey, hey, it's a sin about the shape the world is in hey, hey, it's a shame modern man hurricane Earth dump suck soil sewer spit sea oil toxic ocean chemical fish man made death wish Hey, hey, it's a shame modern man hurricane I need your love to keep me calm when the world's a storm