Released: September 1, 1984
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Verse]
I look up and the camera eye is
Searching my room
The TV screen is calling me
But for what or whom
Please mister do be careful
I'm so fragile
Maybe they'll let me down
To Speedy's place for a while
[Chorus]
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
[Verse]
I talk a lot, a sign of fear
I thought you should know
I can see pictures of me well
They're so-so
I'll come on to the leader
Like I'm some hero
He'll laugh and raise his dying eyes
And then tell me to go
[Chorus]
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
[Verse]
1920 Flashbacks for an hour or more
Of crazy actors hiding
In the doorways top floor
Machines scream in anger
From a thousand dead ends
I turn my face, I crawl away
I look for a friend
[Chorus]
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh now that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
I look up and the camera eye is
Searching my room
The TV screen is calling me
But for what or whom
Please mister do be careful
I'm so fragile
Maybe they'll let me down
To Speedy's place for a while
[Chorus]
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
[Verse]
I talk a lot, a sign of fear
I thought you should know
I can see pictures of me well
They're so-so
I'll come on to the leader
Like I'm some hero
He'll laugh and raise his dying eyes
And then tell me to go
[Chorus]
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
[Verse]
1920 Flashbacks for an hour or more
Of crazy actors hiding
In the doorways top floor
Machines scream in anger
From a thousand dead ends
I turn my face, I crawl away
I look for a friend
[Chorus]
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh now that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
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