Released: April 4, 1979
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
A radio plays "White Christmas"
It's been doing that for years
If somebody leaves the station
Please don't talk to strangers
Don't you see they're not like us?
The vacant flesh of U.D.'s
Stand leaning by the walls
You can feel them thinking over
Ways of merging with the thoughts
You never dare to dream
It must have been years
It must have been years
They want to relive all my memories
Give me "the service" daily
Maybe it was mother
I can't seem to remember
Much at all these days
Picture open doorways
No pick-ups by the taxi boys
Just a bed near the window
And an old lamp by my pillow
And the things I have to do
It must have been years
It must have been years
The driver wants to touch me
He mentions all the old cop bullshit
I try to back away
But he's so strong, I just can't move
Maybe I don't want to anyway
The time to leave is always "soon"
I wonder if I'm lying
A vague feeling of panic
As a man leaves saying "thank you"
I blame it all on you
It must have been years
It must have been years
It's been doing that for years
If somebody leaves the station
Please don't talk to strangers
Don't you see they're not like us?
The vacant flesh of U.D.'s
Stand leaning by the walls
You can feel them thinking over
Ways of merging with the thoughts
You never dare to dream
It must have been years
It must have been years
They want to relive all my memories
Give me "the service" daily
Maybe it was mother
I can't seem to remember
Much at all these days
Picture open doorways
No pick-ups by the taxi boys
Just a bed near the window
And an old lamp by my pillow
And the things I have to do
It must have been years
It must have been years
The driver wants to touch me
He mentions all the old cop bullshit
I try to back away
But he's so strong, I just can't move
Maybe I don't want to anyway
The time to leave is always "soon"
I wonder if I'm lying
A vague feeling of panic
As a man leaves saying "thank you"
I blame it all on you
It must have been years
It must have been years
more tracks from the album
Replicas
- Praying to the Aliens
- The Crazies
- We Are So Fragile
- I Nearly Married a Human
- Me! I Disconnect from You
- The Machman
- Replicas
- Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
- We Have a Technical
- When the Machines Rock
- Down in the Park
- Do You Need the Service?
- It Must Have Been Years
- You Are in My Vision
- Only a Downstat
- I Nearly Married a Human 2
From the album
- Replicas (1979)
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