Songwriter: Ian Craig Marsh Martyn Ware Philip Oakey
Producer: The Human League Colin Thurston
Television: You will notice that very appropriately I'm left-handed
This man I saw
Was happy then
And then loved
And on TV well
But now he cried
And he cried
And of course he had to want to die
But he watched him
Which made it worse
Of course, of course, of course, of course
You understand
He didn't know
That it was someone else
Who looked the same
A similar voice taken
The clothes changed
But the face retained
Surrounded by
Old imagery
His brain bypassed
The eternal moment laid bare
No time to heal
Continual pain, continual pain, continual pain, continual pain
I spent a bad day yesterday
With a man and a picture of himself
The tape was running and the TV turned
Television: ...and described Mrs Thatcher's first three months in power as disastrous
This man I saw
Was happy then
And then loved
And on TV well
But now he cried
And he cried
And of course he had to want to die
But he watched him
Which made it worse
Of course, of course, of course, of course
You understand
He didn't know
That it was someone else
Who looked the same
A similar voice taken
The clothes changed
But the face retained
Surrounded by
Old imagery
His brain bypassed
The eternal moment laid bare
No time to heal
Continual pain, continual pain, continual pain, continual pain
I spent a bad day yesterday
With a man and a picture of himself
The tape was running and the TV turned
Television: ...and described Mrs Thatcher's first three months in power as disastrous
more tracks from the album
Reproduction
- The Path Of Least Resistance
- The Dignity of Labour, Part 4
- The Dignity of Labour, Part 3
- The Dignity of Labour, Part 2
- The Dignity of Labour, Part 1
- Introducing
- The Word Before Last
- Austerity / Girl One (Medley)
- Being Boiled (Fast Version)
- Morale... You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling
- Circus Of Death
- Almost Medieval
- Empire State Human
- Blind Youth
- Zero As A Limit
- Circus of Death (Fast Version)
From the album
- Reproduction (1979)
The Human League popular songs
- Don’t You Want Me
- Human
- Love Action
- The Sound Of The Crowd
- (Keep Feeling) Fascination
- Fascination
- Ringinglow
- Crow and a Baby
- Rock Me Again and Again and Again and Again and Again and Again (Six Times)
- Love Action (I Believe In Love)
- Words
- Gordon’s Gin
- Heart Like a Wheel (LP version)
- Filling Up With Heaven
- Kimi Ni Mune Kyun
- Don’t You Want Me (90's Inquisition mix)
- The Black Hit of Space
- Liar
- Fascination - Improvisation
- Men Are Dreamers
- Almost Medieval
- I’m Coming Back
- (Keep Feeling) Fascination (Extended)
- Swang