Released: March 16, 1979
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
Do you need the service?
Do you need to call me daily?
Do you have reasons for calling at all?
Is something on your mind?
Is something wrong? I get the feeling
That you're laughing at my quiet surprise
My silhouette is changing
As I'm aging by your window
And I focus on a light by your face
Call me "the operator"
Making comments, "He's so technical"
Or "I've absolutely nothing to do"
Recycle all my photographs
I'll leave a picture of the queen
And no one has to know I was there
Me, I'm so ashamed
You're all connected to my number
And the conversation's only polite
I'll wear my old grey raincoat
Just in case you're "confidential"
Make up stories like "the screen fades away"
Today it's in a taxi
By the station, and it's raining
And I wonder how they made it before
Do you need to call me daily?
Do you have reasons for calling at all?
Is something on your mind?
Is something wrong? I get the feeling
That you're laughing at my quiet surprise
My silhouette is changing
As I'm aging by your window
And I focus on a light by your face
Call me "the operator"
Making comments, "He's so technical"
Or "I've absolutely nothing to do"
Recycle all my photographs
I'll leave a picture of the queen
And no one has to know I was there
Me, I'm so ashamed
You're all connected to my number
And the conversation's only polite
I'll wear my old grey raincoat
Just in case you're "confidential"
Make up stories like "the screen fades away"
Today it's in a taxi
By the station, and it's raining
And I wonder how they made it before
more tracks from the album
Replicas
- Praying to the Aliens
- The Crazies
- We Are So Fragile
- I Nearly Married a Human
- Me! I Disconnect from You
- The Machman
- Replicas
- Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
- We Have a Technical
- When the Machines Rock
- Down in the Park
- Do You Need the Service?
- It Must Have Been Years
- You Are in My Vision
- Only a Downstat
- I Nearly Married a Human 2
From the album
- Replicas (1979)
Tubeway Army popular songs
- Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
- Something’s in the House
- We Have a Technical
- The Life Machine
- My Love Is a Liquid
- Are You Real?
- The Dream Police
- Friends
- Steel and You
- Replicas
- The Machman
- Me! I Disconnect from You
- I Nearly Married a Human
- We Are So Fragile
- Zero Bars (Mr. Smith)
- The Crazies
- Everyday I Die
- That’s Too Bad (Single Version)
- Oh! Didn’t I Say
- Out of Sight
- Bombers (Original Version)
- Fadeout 1930
- This Machine (Original Version)
- Thoughts No. 2