Exhibition Tour 1987:Ghost

Gary Numan Exhibition Tour 1987:Ghost Lyrics
1.Are 'friends' Electric?

it's cold outside
And the paint's peeling off of my walls
There's a man outside
In a long coat, grey hat, smoking a cigarette

Now the light fades out
And i'm wondering what i'm doing in a room like this
There's a knock on the door
And just for a second i thought i remembered you

So now i'm alone
Now i can think for myself
About little deals
And *issues*
And things that i just don't understand
Like a white lie that night
Or a slight touch at times
I don't think it meant anything to you

So i open the door
It's the 'friend' that i'd left in the hallway
'please sit down'
A candle lit a shadow on a wall near the bed

You know i hate to ask
But, are 'friends' electric?
Mine's broke down
And now i've no one to love

So i find out your reason
For the phone calls and smiles
And it hurts
And i'm lonely
And i should never have tried
And i missed you tonight
So it's time to leave
You see this means everything to me


2.Berserker

And this is my story.
My face, the picture's changed
Do you remember me
Now i'm fighting to breathe
It's been such a long time

Do you want to come
Do you want to come
Do you want to come with me now

Nothing here for me now
I can't believe the noise
We'll take this place apart
I won't be here for long
I know they'll find me soon

But now the weakness comes
I'll question everything
I'll trade new dreams for old
I've been waiting for you
I've waited far too long.


3.Call Out The Dogs

Here am i
Like a target in flesh
One more time
For you to call out the dogs
Passengers
With a ticket to burn and burn and burn
You will learn
I'm still waiting for you you know

I'm a slogan, an old story,
A disease, never again
I don't like this, new anger,
These young boys, just make me laugh
This picture, i'm so nervous,
The dj, says 'who are you?'
Look at me, i'm shaking,
I don't know if i can move

I don't need
This attention again
I've lost time
I could lose everything
You will learn
That you've nowhere to go so go


4.Cars

cars

Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars

Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for ( nights )
- this is the only wrong word you put days
In cars

Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please?
If i open my door
In cars

Here in my car
I know i've started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right
In cars


5.Creatures

I need it
The sex skin habit
You could just crawl out
And forget i'm here

I need it
Love and something
I'd just as soon forget
So keep it out the papers

I need it
'the sex musicians'
I'll show you 'something'
While the boys beat time

I need it
And she's still waiting
We like to wake up
In a strange bed romance

One more time for me
You are the young things fed on garbage and lies
Please one more time for me
You are the young things fed on garbage and lies
I'm talking far too much about my shame

I need it
Creatures calling
I'll tear my heart out
But i need some more

I need it
I'm under pressure
I don't remember
If her story's true


6.Down In The Park

Down in the park
Where the machmen meet
The machines are playing 'kill-by-numbers'
Down in the park with a friend called 'five'

I was in a car crash
Or was it the war?
Well, i've never been quite the same
Little white lies like 'i was there'

Come to 'zom-zom's', a place to eat
Like it was built in one day
You can watch the humans
Try to run

Oh, look, there's a rape machine
I'd go outside if it looks the other way
You wouldn't believe
The things they do

Down in the park
Where the chant is 'death, death, death'
Until the sun cries morning
Down in the park with friends of mine

'we are not lovers
We are not romantics
We are here to serve you'
A different face but the words never change


7.Ghost

Instrumental


8.I Can't Stop

I've been there and seen it
I've been up and down
And i've been fighting for so long.

I can't stop for all your stories
I can't stop for all you young hearts.

Been up on the power
Been down and ashamed
I'm sure i'm guilty of something now.

I'm back and i'm proven
I'm back and i'm strong
And i've been waiting for so long.


9.I Die: You Die

This is not love
This is not even worth a point of view
In echo park, i
Pause for effect and whisper 'who are you?'

They crawl out of their holes for me
And i die: you die
Hear them laugh, watch them turn on me
And i die: you die
See my scars, they call me such things
Tear me, tear me, tear me

Now i have your names
Screaming 'you will suffer' and 'you're all too late'
Now i feel young
Does everything stop when the old dame fails?

They crawl out of their holes for me
And i die: you die
Hear them laugh, watch them turn on me
And i die: you die
See my scars, they call me such things
Tear me, tear me, tear me

But i'm still frightened by the telephone


10.Me! I Disconnect From You

The alarm rang for days
You could tell from conversations
I was waiting by the screen
I couldn't recognise my photograph
Me, i disconnect from you

I was walking up the stairs
Something moved in silence
I could feel his mind decaying
Only inches away from me
And i disconnect from you

Please don't turn me off
I don't know what i'm doing outside
Me and the telephone that never rings
If you were me, what would you do?
Me, i disconnect from you


11.Metal

We're in the building where they make us grow
And i'm frightened by the liquid engineers
Like you

My mallory heart is sure to fail
I could crawl around the floor just like i'm real
Like you

The sound of metal i want to be you
I could learn to be a man
Like you

Plug me in and turn me on
Oh everything is moving

I need my treatment it's tomorrow they send me
Singing 'i am an american'
Do you?

Picture this if they could make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?

And who are you and how can i try?
Here inside i like metal
In you

All i know is no one dies
I'm still confusing love with need


12.My Breathing

Assassination of the voice of god
I don't know if i can do it
I've found the problem and the problem's you
I'm here to pick up the pieces.

You won't remember me but i do you
I told you that i would come back
Everything will be decided here
They can read it in the papers.

Your breathing haunts me
My breathing?
The sleeproom still waits for me.

Join the army you can see the world
I remember this one patrol
Been liberating river towns
And we picked up the sex skin crawl.

We would sing the new leader's song
Everyone invented stories
The connection was a fragile thing
Far too many distractions.

I've been listening to the new 'dj'
What's all this 'original' con?
We all live in the same museum
We all rearrange the same old song.

Assassination by the radio
I don't know if they can do it
I've found the problem and the problem's 'one'
I'm here to pick up the pieces.


13.My Shadow In Vain

Stroll to the cafe
My god how time flies
I close up my brain
And another friend dies

I feel like a mirror
Feel like nothing is mine
I could go back to crying
But now dying seems fine

So i hang from the ceiling
Or i sit on the air
Or rot in a corner
Until somebody cares

Faces at random
I quote people i knew
I'd love to be like me
If i could feel like you

Here am i, more roche five than pain
Here am i, just me and my walls to blame
Here am i, i really don't feel quite sane
Here am i, still searching for my shadow in vain
Lock my door i only think in black and white
I'll even try to look ashamed

Moving out of central
Somebody knows me well
Says he'll spill the whole story
He may be lying i can't tell

Meet me inside
I'll keep my head to the floor
And one hand on the handle
Of the mad/sane door

Here am i, more roche five than pain
Here am i, just me and my walls to blame
Here am i, i really don't feel quite sane
Here am i, still searching for my shadow in vain
Lock my door i only think in black and white
I'll even try to look ashamed

My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain
My shadow in vain...


14.Sister Surprise

We are
Walking nostalgia
Like old movies for real
Look at me, look at you
Look at them, look at us

I'm young
Sell a slim body to the man next door
Sell a slim body to the man next door
Like my sister surprise

We'll wait for you

We are
The pleasure creation
Gone wrong. gone wrong.

We are
Walking ghost stories
No religion
No relief
No old wisdom
No belief
Sometimes i could scream

We'll wait for you


15.The Sleeproom

This is a story
And this is a song
Every little thing that they
Tell you is wrong
This isn't evil
This is a sound
And this conversation is possibly down.

I know that i'm not all that pretty
I know that i don't sound like i should
I don't even belong to fashion.

This is a secret
And all this is true
Everything i tell you belongs here with you
I'm not a hero
I'm no good
I don't belong here but my heroes should

And i'm moving
And i'm lying down
And i'm losing
And i'm losing.

This is uncertain
This is unsound
Is this a feeling or something i've found?
This is a story
This is a song
Every little thing that i've told you is wrong.


16.This Disease

This disease
I'm out of my class
This disease
I'm needle sick again
This disease
We must expect such things
This disease
She finds me the girls

Tick tock tick
All gone all gone all gone
Tick tock tick
Whispering goodbye
Tick tock tick
Who is talking?
Tick tock tick
I don't have the choice

Look at me
A puppet dancing on strings
Look at me
And this is easy?
Look at me
I got the screams
Look at me
Words failing

This disease
This disease


17.Tricks

I've seen the 'action'
All kinds of people
Seen things disgusting
I've seen it all

I've heard excuses
All kinds of stories
I've heard confessions
I've heard it all

They wrote bad poems
Painted bad pictures
They say we used them
I'm not sure

Some call it love and
Some call it affection
I don't believe it
It's all clean young flesh

And we all fall down
We all fall down

You say you want it
Dress to kill and kill me
We could play new games
And you could lose

Don't tell your mother
Or some jealous husband
Don't talk of love just
Send me a postcard

We need to feel it
We need to feel it
I've lost all patience
You'll lose all pride

I've no conversation
I've no good intentions
I've room for one more
I've room for you

They say we're 'corrupted'
They say we're 'disturbing'
I don't know
It must be true

They say we're 'reckless'
They say we're 'vicious'
It's just a rumour
We don't leave scars

She likes the movement
She likes the motion
She likes to whisper
But then she likes to scream

She likes the dancing
She likes the make up
She likes to forget
'bout everything


18.We Are Glass

We are young we can break
Watch us fall
We can take some train
Down to the sea
We are glass, we are glass
We are real you can touch
Just for now
And then say
'hey you, which way is down'
We are glass, we are glass

We are strong we run though
We have time
And to you i'm just
One of those boys
We are glass, we are glass
We are cold
We're not supposed to cry
But it's all just a thought
So here am i
We are glass, we are glass

They run fast
Impressions of the floors inviting
Stay with me, stay with me
They run past
With telephones they scream
Well would you turn all this down
Turn all this down

You are replaced you are you
And our dreams are real
And dreams are all we need
We are glass, we are glass

We slip down
And old eyes don't cry for me
Cause i doubt i'm and i doubt you
And never never going to doubt
We are glass, we are glass

They run fast
Impressions of the floors inviting
Stay with me, stay with me
They run past
With telephones they scream
Well would you turn all this down
Turn all this down


19.We Take Mystery(To Bed)

Confiscate letters like d.e.b.
No natural course of things for her to expect
Withdraw the feelings 'you can, you can't'
I called your number as you told the world

Something is wrong

There is no longer any normal to me
You're my assassin but you can't see the crime
Pointless possessions of me & you & greed
I looked at you mistaking needles for eyes

Something is wrong