Vic Chesnutt - Soft Picasso lyrics

It was a modern love affair
Completely cool and casual
They hardly knew each other was there
Both of them had their own getting off to do
They had to dream about their own
Self when they were through
But the modern girl was elated with
What the revolution gave her
Since she was liberated she could have
Anything that striked her fancy
And she fancied quite a bit if
It felt good she did it
And she did it every chance she could get
With her main modern man and otherwise
And her taste wasn't limited
To just modern guys
Since another modern girl showed
Her that modern girls know how to hold her
And after she had her eyes opened all
Her old close friends started getting closer
And new friends weren't that far away
But the modern man wasn't
So lucky being shook from his
Usual role as the heartbreaker
He was completely battered and bewildered
When he actually started in
Feeling something for her
And he discovered a new emotion when they
Stopped ending up together as frequently
And when he finally confronted her
With the question had she
Been bedding down with others in
The periphery without him
And she replied "Hell yes! ain't
It funny!" so view
The modern man looking like a soft Picasso
He's there with his head
In his hand repeating
To himself an epigram "Live by the scam
Die by the scam"