Released: November 24, 1978
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
Jo the waiter worked for me
Serving wine in basement bars
Only mad men ever stay. "Got no time."
If you're mindless please take mine
Jo the waiter held me close
Behind the door marked "gentlemen"
Just for now that's all I need
Won't someone call me friend?
Long gone. I recall good times
I must confess I cried
We burned out and the line went dead
At six o'clock I felt so alone
I crawled inside. "Where else to go?"
Could be dead for all you know
Every day I died for you
Valium boys with painted eyes
Young man need love special
I don't think I want it at all
Long gone. I recall good times
I must confess I cried
Me I've retired to a back street flat
Picture "eyes in a cold steel frame"
The freaks arrive
Broken needles and blood
"What you on man to get those eyes?"
It's very touching I'm so close to me
False smiles I've rehearsed for days
Come inside you won't know I'm wrong
Give me your heart I'm so quickly gone
Serving wine in basement bars
Only mad men ever stay. "Got no time."
If you're mindless please take mine
Jo the waiter held me close
Behind the door marked "gentlemen"
Just for now that's all I need
Won't someone call me friend?
Long gone. I recall good times
I must confess I cried
We burned out and the line went dead
At six o'clock I felt so alone
I crawled inside. "Where else to go?"
Could be dead for all you know
Every day I died for you
Valium boys with painted eyes
Young man need love special
I don't think I want it at all
Long gone. I recall good times
I must confess I cried
Me I've retired to a back street flat
Picture "eyes in a cold steel frame"
The freaks arrive
Broken needles and blood
"What you on man to get those eyes?"
It's very touching I'm so close to me
False smiles I've rehearsed for days
Come inside you won't know I'm wrong
Give me your heart I'm so quickly gone
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Tubeway Army (1978)
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