Album: Big Bam Boom (1984)

Charted: 21 5

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• M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
  M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
  
  In the moonlite
  Under startlite
  Songs old as the night
  Are what I've been dreamin' of
  Everybody's hard as iron
  Locked in a modern world
  Dreams are make of a different stuff
  I believe love will always be the same
  The ways and means are the parts subject to change
  
  M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
  It's a method of modern love
  M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
  It's a method of modern love
  
  I can call you
  Got your number
  Share my life with you
  A thousand miles away
  If you've hurt me
  I haven't shown it
  Time's too tight to fight
  And we're never face to face
  Style is timeless and fashion's only now
  We are the ways no one needs to show us how
  
  M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
  It's a method of modern love
  M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
  It's a method of modern love
  
  Method of, method of
  Love, love, love
  Love
  Method of, method of
  Love, 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
  It's 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
  We know what we do, or don't we
  In the moonlight
  In the starlite
  Songs old as the night
  Are what I've been dreamin' of
  It's a method of
  Modern love
  Dreams are made of a different stuff and we're living
  In a method of modern love
  At present tense has no time behind
  Oh don't fall for the same whole life
  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 works
  I've got a way we run
  
  And you believe that I'm in a gladly age and not behind
  
  I got the method
  Baby
  And it's right on time
  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
  It's a method of
  Modern love
  M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E Writer/s: DARYL HALL, JANNA M. ALLEN
  Publisher: BMG Rights Management
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

• Markantney from BiloxeFeb 2015, to EXPLAIN it's popularity back then. H&O were the "Blue Eye'd" Soul Wonders of the era and this song (somehow) combined: Pop, R&B, and even Rap into one song. Blonde's "Rapture" broke the mold earlier but not authentic as "Method of Modern Love".
  
  Don't know how they did it, if it was their intent,..but they pulled it off like a Veteran Stripper:):)
  
  Oh and it was one of the first times I heard a Caucasian RAP and it sounded like they Wrote the Rap and not some Ghost "Urban" Writer.
  
  And Hall's background vocals (so R&B like, I say check Hall's Birth certificate to see if one his parents was from Motown or Sounds of Phili) and riffing towards the end doesn't hurt either; which I believe separates it even more from "Rapture".
  
  One of their best songs to me.
• Guy from Benson, NcLOL @MIKE!!!! Not one of my faves. I love Wait For Me.
• Steve from Bradford, United KingdomStrange that its about communication and true love ~ Paula B a good friend of mine bought me the 12'' version in 1984 ~ it's been played alot but it's also been looked after, so a little bit crackley now. although me and paula are not together now I still play 'Her Record' 7 think of the good times ~ 20 years on & nearly 2 days to the date Irecieved the first recording ~ I managed to get the remastered 'BIG BAM BOOM' & on it was the 12'' version of 'Method of Modern Love' & when I played it, it was like meeting an old friend again, it really was.
• Paul from Detroit, MiLove this song, and why isn't my all time fave, "Say It Isn't So", a huge hit for them, not listed here?
• Rain from Clinton, MdThis song sounds very different from their other ones but it's a refreshing change with a very different beat and set up. It's actually one of my favorites by H&O, although they have many other great ones to be appreciated, including I Can't Go for That, It's a Laugh and Say it Isn't So (all my top H&O faves).
• Jon from St. Paul, MnI actually like this song a lot by them. I think it's pretty cool and catchy. Plus it is also not like any of their other songs. I am just wondering Mike what songs do you like better by Hall and Oates that did not gain as much air time?
• Mike from Santa Barbara, CaI've long like Hall & Oates, but I never liked this particular song. During the chorus, it sounds like Hall is reading an eye chart. It's sad that this song became so popular, when they have so many other better songs that didn't gain as much air time.

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