Released: January 1, 1984
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Verse 1]
My friends have
Been demoted to
Stay hey hey
Second class
Someone tells me
Reliable
Big brother
Will never last
Seems like I
Outgrew my station
Sweet young boys turning green
This is for your information
[Chorus]
Mean street
I'd love to see you cry
Mean street
I'd love to see you die
Mean street
I really don't know why
You let me down
[Verse 2]
Look at him
Taking all our glory
Lets kick him out
'Who will say?'
'Don't look at me'
'He'll find out in a roundabout way'
We don't owe him anything
We don't need him anymore
Drop him cold now spread the lies
No-one even said goodbye
[Chorus]
Mean street
I'd love to see you cry
Mean street
I'd love to see you die
Mean street
I really don't know why
Mean street
You let me down
My friends have
Been demoted to
Stay hey hey
Second class
Someone tells me
Reliable
Big brother
Will never last
Seems like I
Outgrew my station
Sweet young boys turning green
This is for your information
[Chorus]
Mean street
I'd love to see you cry
Mean street
I'd love to see you die
Mean street
I really don't know why
You let me down
[Verse 2]
Look at him
Taking all our glory
Lets kick him out
'Who will say?'
'Don't look at me'
'He'll find out in a roundabout way'
We don't owe him anything
We don't need him anymore
Drop him cold now spread the lies
No-one even said goodbye
[Chorus]
Mean street
I'd love to see you cry
Mean street
I'd love to see you die
Mean street
I really don't know why
Mean street
You let me down
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