Released: January 1, 1984
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Verse 1]
Something isn't right
I get the feeling I'm not driving
Something hasn't quite
Taken over but it's trying
[Chorus]
Oh, check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Verse 2]
The question now is time
The hours pass so slowly
I know we're moving out of line
But that's the risk you're taking with me
[Chorus]
Oh, check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Bridge 1]
I flicker like an old film - Black / White
I'm losing track of what's real - I know
My sense of timing's not quite - OK
Maybe I'll stay tonight - So so
[Verse 3]
Fadeout as in lose
My character is shrapnel
Broken by the views
Of men who claim to know all
(There is to know)
[Chorus]
Oh, check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Verse 4]
Something isn't right
I get the feeling I am no-one
Something hasn't quite
Stopped me from being someone
[Chorus]
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Bridge 2]
Something in the mirror - Check it
No photo by my bedside - Check it
My self-control is missing - Check it
I'll leave with your permission - Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Something isn't right
I get the feeling I'm not driving
Something hasn't quite
Taken over but it's trying
[Chorus]
Oh, check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Verse 2]
The question now is time
The hours pass so slowly
I know we're moving out of line
But that's the risk you're taking with me
[Chorus]
Oh, check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Bridge 1]
I flicker like an old film - Black / White
I'm losing track of what's real - I know
My sense of timing's not quite - OK
Maybe I'll stay tonight - So so
[Verse 3]
Fadeout as in lose
My character is shrapnel
Broken by the views
Of men who claim to know all
(There is to know)
[Chorus]
Oh, check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Verse 4]
Something isn't right
I get the feeling I am no-one
Something hasn't quite
Stopped me from being someone
[Chorus]
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
Check it, check it
[Bridge 2]
Something in the mirror - Check it
No photo by my bedside - Check it
My self-control is missing - Check it
I'll leave with your permission - Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
Check it
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)
- The Plan (1984)
- 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