Released: September 1, 1984
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
[Verse 1]
Sometimes I feel
I live in this prison on earth
But I don't know
If this [?]
Surprise you win
I'm lost as screamers roll in
Sometimes I feel
Like leaving this room I'm in
[Verse 2]
Faded film people dropping words
About the real things to say
[? Not "Someone pulls me deeper", as in CD booklet]
And tells me who I will be if I stay
A clever machine writes pretty words
For pretty boys
To sing to us all
We're all so grateful
[Verse 3]
My face you cry
And I show my darker side
The night is yours
And I just switch off and hide
Cafe and sin
The wine's not to my liking
My face you cry
Oh my didn't I say come in?
[Verse 4]
[?] in my eyes showing nothing
But surprise about you
And what are you thinking
About my life and her drinking to you too
A dying non-human writes unkind words
For unkind friends
And as for the tears, they'll never show
Asylum people calling on my door
From day to day
The image must fall
I've had my time
Sometimes I feel
I live in this prison on earth
But I don't know
If this [?]
Surprise you win
I'm lost as screamers roll in
Sometimes I feel
Like leaving this room I'm in
[Verse 2]
Faded film people dropping words
About the real things to say
[? Not "Someone pulls me deeper", as in CD booklet]
And tells me who I will be if I stay
A clever machine writes pretty words
For pretty boys
To sing to us all
We're all so grateful
[Verse 3]
My face you cry
And I show my darker side
The night is yours
And I just switch off and hide
Cafe and sin
The wine's not to my liking
My face you cry
Oh my didn't I say come in?
[Verse 4]
[?] in my eyes showing nothing
But surprise about you
And what are you thinking
About my life and her drinking to you too
A dying non-human writes unkind words
For unkind friends
And as for the tears, they'll never show
Asylum people calling on my door
From day to day
The image must fall
I've had my time
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