Released: June 1, 1978
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Intro]
Heartbeat
I can't see you
Heartbeat
I can hear you
I feel you pumping just beyond my door
I know exactly
What you've crawled here for
Cringe down lower
You're all dressed in grey
Me, I'm still breathing
It's just not your day
[Verse 1]
I hear you whisper like an open grave
O.D. Receiver, I am all you crave
You're dying, crying, I can hear you fall
Your bony fingers scratching on my wall
[Chorus]
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
[Verse 2]
I hear you screaming, well at least you try
Me, I'm still smiling but I don't know why
I'd call a doctor if I had the time
But I'm so busy with this fix of mine
[Chorus]
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
Heartbeat
I can't see you
Heartbeat
I can hear you
I feel you pumping just beyond my door
I know exactly
What you've crawled here for
Cringe down lower
You're all dressed in grey
Me, I'm still breathing
It's just not your day
[Verse 1]
I hear you whisper like an open grave
O.D. Receiver, I am all you crave
You're dying, crying, I can hear you fall
Your bony fingers scratching on my wall
[Chorus]
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
[Verse 2]
I hear you screaming, well at least you try
Me, I'm still smiling but I don't know why
I'd call a doctor if I had the time
But I'm so busy with this fix of mine
[Chorus]
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
O.D. Receiver
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