Released: January 1, 1984
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Verse 1]
Streetcar is rusting
The tracks are all gone
You're far too trusting
But I won't take long
Old friends of someone lie dead in the street
The back scene director knows just who I mean
[Verse 2]
No visions of my life
Will flash past my eyes
I've waited thousands of years for this prize
Someone is calling
But who's left alive?
Just me and you, dear
Please show some surprise
I've not always been this way
Please believe me
[Verse 3]
Yellowed newspapers
Drift past empty cabs
Dead hotel bellboys dream
Of old men they've had
Ex-junkies in my house
Are all blue and green
Please don't cry, I love you, I'm not what I seem
[Verse 4]
Isn't it lovely
It's just you and me
I've never felt so happy to be here
Look through my window
At the hole in my wall
Straight into my head there's nobody at all
Do you think you can love me?
I am no-one
[Chorus]
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
Streetcar is rusting
The tracks are all gone
You're far too trusting
But I won't take long
Old friends of someone lie dead in the street
The back scene director knows just who I mean
[Verse 2]
No visions of my life
Will flash past my eyes
I've waited thousands of years for this prize
Someone is calling
But who's left alive?
Just me and you, dear
Please show some surprise
I've not always been this way
Please believe me
[Verse 3]
Yellowed newspapers
Drift past empty cabs
Dead hotel bellboys dream
Of old men they've had
Ex-junkies in my house
Are all blue and green
Please don't cry, I love you, I'm not what I seem
[Verse 4]
Isn't it lovely
It's just you and me
I've never felt so happy to be here
Look through my window
At the hole in my wall
Straight into my head there's nobody at all
Do you think you can love me?
I am no-one
[Chorus]
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
If you were the only girl in the world
And I was the only boy
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