Released: September 10, 1979
Songwriter: Mick Jones (Foreigner)
Producer: Ian McDonald Mick Jones (Foreigner) Roy Thomas Baker
[Verse 1]
I stand up for my pride
I don't want to be just like anyone
In this world I cannot hide
I must finish what I have begun
That's the way I play
In the modern day
Because I want to stay
In the modern day
Got a picture in my mind
Of the way that I wanna be
So I search until I find
The power inside of me
It's another phase
Of the modern day
[Chorus]
Got to face up to this life
Can't let it get the best of me
So I make a sacrifice
If that's the way it has to be
[Bridge]
I'm doing what I feel is right
I'm ready if I need to fight
In the modern way[x2]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Like a motor in overdrive
I feel good and I feel alive
I got no need to beg or borrow
Got a shortcut to tomorrow
And I'm on my way
To the modern day
Got a lot to say
In the modern day
Because I need to stay
In the modern day
[Outro]
In the modern day
I stand up for my pride
I don't want to be just like anyone
In this world I cannot hide
I must finish what I have begun
That's the way I play
In the modern day
Because I want to stay
In the modern day
Got a picture in my mind
Of the way that I wanna be
So I search until I find
The power inside of me
It's another phase
Of the modern day
[Chorus]
Got to face up to this life
Can't let it get the best of me
So I make a sacrifice
If that's the way it has to be
[Bridge]
I'm doing what I feel is right
I'm ready if I need to fight
In the modern way[x2]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Like a motor in overdrive
I feel good and I feel alive
I got no need to beg or borrow
Got a shortcut to tomorrow
And I'm on my way
To the modern day
Got a lot to say
In the modern day
Because I need to stay
In the modern day
[Outro]
In the modern day
- Head Games (1979)
- I Want to Know What Love Is
- Juke Box Hero
- Waiting for a Girl Like You
- Cold as Ice
- Feels Like the First Time
- Urgent
- Hot Blooded
- Double Vision
- Head Games
- I Don’t Want to Live Without You
- Say You Will
- Dirty White Boy
- That Was Yesterday
- Rev on the Red Line
- Starrider (Live at the Bang Your Head Festival, Balingen, Germany, 2006)
- Not Fade Away
- Love Maker
- Soul Doctor
- Hot Blooded (Live)
- With Heaven on Our Side (radio edit)
- Ready Or Not
- Big Dog
- That’s All Right
- Prisoner of Love