Released: April 4, 1979
Songwriter: Gary Numan
Producer: Gary Numan
I saw him turn on like a machine in the park
Saying, "Please come with me", but you've been there before
I saw him whir away into the night
Like a nightmare on wheels saying, "Never again"
I'd give it all up for you
I'd even be a number just for you
The strangest living boy you could ever wish to see
"That's me"
Yellowed newspapers tell the story of someone
"Do you know this man?", tomorrow the cure
Only police ever see night time for real
Turn on the light and cry, "No more, no more"
I was standing outside your door
Waiting for the grey men to go
When my mind turned on me with a vengeance I had never known
My own
Everyone heard the voice on the radio
Saying, "Why move around and waste my time?"
There are no independents anymore
The tape is a circle but who really cares?
I saw you behind the wall
I even heard you laugh at me
You disgust me tonight with your answer to something new
That's you
Saying, "Please come with me", but you've been there before
I saw him whir away into the night
Like a nightmare on wheels saying, "Never again"
I'd give it all up for you
I'd even be a number just for you
The strangest living boy you could ever wish to see
"That's me"
Yellowed newspapers tell the story of someone
"Do you know this man?", tomorrow the cure
Only police ever see night time for real
Turn on the light and cry, "No more, no more"
I was standing outside your door
Waiting for the grey men to go
When my mind turned on me with a vengeance I had never known
My own
Everyone heard the voice on the radio
Saying, "Why move around and waste my time?"
There are no independents anymore
The tape is a circle but who really cares?
I saw you behind the wall
I even heard you laugh at me
You disgust me tonight with your answer to something new
That's you
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?
- Something’s in the House
- We Have a Technical
- The Life Machine
- My Love Is a Liquid
- Are You Real?
- The Dream Police
- Friends
- Steel and You
- Replicas
- The Machman
- Me! I Disconnect from You
- I Nearly Married a Human
- We Are So Fragile
- Zero Bars (Mr. Smith)
- The Crazies
- Everyday I Die
- 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