Method of Modern Love Lyrics

[Intro]
(Love, love, love)
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E

[Verse 1]
In the moonlight
Under starlight
Songs old as the night are what I've been dreaming of
Everybody's hard as iron
Locked in a modern world
Dreams are made of a different stuff

[Pre-Chorus]
I believe love will always be the same (Love)
The ways and means are the parts subject to change

[Chorus]
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
It's the method of modern love
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
It's the method of modern love

[Verse 2]
I can call you
Got your number
Share my life with you a thousand miles away
If you hurt me
I haven't shown it
Time's too tight to fight
And we're never face to face
[Pre-Chorus]
Style is timeless and fashion's only now (Love, love, love)
We got the ways, no one needs to show us how

[Chorus]
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
It's the method of modern love
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
It's the method of modern love
(Love)

[Breakdown]
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Love, love, love
Ooh, ooh
Method of, method of
Love, love, love
Love
Method of, method of
Love, love, love
Love

[Outro]
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
(Love, love-love, love)
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
(Love, love)
It's a modern love
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
I know what you're dreaming of
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
What we got is a method of modern love
It's a method of
It's a method of modern love
We know what we do, or don't we (M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E)
We know what we do, or don't we (M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E)
In the moonlight
In the starlight
Songs old as the night
Are what I've been dreamin' of
(It's a method of) It's a method of modern love
Dreams are made of a different stuff (M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E)
And we're living in a method of modern love
At present tense, past, time behind (M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E)
And don't fall for the same old line
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
Don't you know that it's a method of modern love?
I've got the way we work (M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E)
I've got a way we run
I do believe that I'm inclined to look ahead and not behind
(M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E)
I got the method, baby, and it's right on time
And it's a method of modern love
(It's a method of modern love)
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
I know what you're dreaming of
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
Ooh
It's a method of modern love
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
Don't mess with imperfection
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E

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Written nearly two decades prior to the era of social media, “Method of Modern Love” presciently explores the difficulty of a romance mediated by distance, technology, and the realities of contemporary life and love. Circumstances have rendered lovers far apart, and now they need to make sense of this dislocation. They must figure out a way to make it work.

The genius in this is that the music accurately reflects this sense of separation, unease, ennui. The choruses of the first three minutes of the song utilize the discordant G,C,E notes, whilst the concluding two minutes modulate the chorus to B,D,F#, transforming the once awkward progression (awkwardness augmented by straining, ponderous horns) to a gorgeous, flowing beautiful melody, over which Darryl Hall raps about love in the modern world. The concluding music confirms the two lovers have worked it out, despite the miles that separate them.

Credits
Recorded At
Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY, USA
Release Date
October 12, 1984
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