Released: September 1, 1984
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Verse 1]
Jo the waiter spilling wine
Over some ex-friends of mine
In zero cafe number nine
What you gonna say this time?
[Chorus]
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
[Verse 2]
New ones walking down the stairs
Pretty young thing but no-one cares
Jo the waiter drops the tray
Do you always know your name?
[Chorus]
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
[Verse 3]
Jo the waiter smiled at me
Jo the waiter's company
I keep him in a book by my fireside
A drama is my perfect bride
[Chorus]
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Jo the waiter spilling wine
Over some ex-friends of mine
In zero cafe number nine
What you gonna say this time?
[Chorus]
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
[Verse 2]
New ones walking down the stairs
Pretty young thing but no-one cares
Jo the waiter drops the tray
Do you always know your name?
[Chorus]
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
[Verse 3]
Jo the waiter smiled at me
Jo the waiter's company
I keep him in a book by my fireside
A drama is my perfect bride
[Chorus]
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
Basic J
Say, are you new here?
more tracks from the album
The Plan
- My Shadow in Vain (Original Version)
- Ice
- Crime of Passion
- The Life Machine (Original Version)
- Critics
- Friends (Do Your Best)
- Basic J.
- That’s Too Bad (Original Version)
- Bombers (Single Version)
- Blue Eyes
- O.D. Receiver
- Mean Street
- This Is My Life
- Something’s in the House
- 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
- Check It
- The Monday Troop
- Don’t Be a Dummy (Lee Cooper Advert)
From the album
- The Plan (1984)
Tubeway Army popular songs
- Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
- Listen to the Sirens
- It Must Have Been Years
- Do You Need the Service?
- Down in the Park
- My Shadow in Vain (Original Version)
- When the Machines Rock
- Something’s in the House
- We Have a Technical
- The Life Machine
- My Love Is a Liquid
- Are You Real?
- The Dream Police
- Friends
- My Shadow in Vain
- Jo the Waiter
- Praying to the Aliens
- Only a Downstat
- You Are in My Vision
- Steel and You
- Replicas
- The Machman
- Me! I Disconnect from You
- I Nearly Married a Human