1.Artificial Life
Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx
All the boys are wearing their utility drag
The girls slip identikits from their utility bags
Some refugees from Suburbia are laughing
Examining each other's gags
Vibrate on sulphate when it gets late
And their velocity begins to sag
And it goes on all night, all night
And it goes on and on, the artificial life
Mary, Mary, got so confused
About the fusion game, what a game
Blunked on booze, she talks like a newsreel
She'll take up any kind of bleak exchange
She turned to perfection once
But realized she'd only turned to pain
She ran through divine light, chemicals
Warhol, Scientology, her own sex
Before she turned away
And it goes on all night, all night
And it goes on and on, the artificial life
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
(Stranger still)
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
I've learned to be a stranger
I should have left here years ago
But my imagination won't tell me how
This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant getting drowned
So we drink and sink and talk and stalk
With interchangeable enemies and friends
Trying on each other's skins
While we're dying to be born again
And it goes on all night, all night
And it goes on and on, the artificial life
2.Distant Smile
Lyricist:Billy Currie, John Foxx
Sometimes I find I drift away
Behind a distant smile
Light years ago I think someone spoke
Quizzical glances behind cigarette smoke
She drew the curtains at the end of the day
And then we laughed because the room sailed away
Fancy glitter in the summer arcades
Then autumn leaves fall by a winter lane
Piano echoes and the perfume still lingers
But you fell through my fingers like sand
With a distant smile
A distant smile, a distant smile
Somehow I always seem to be
Adrift in other times with a distant smile
The city's glittering like diamonds in heat
Our secret destination, touch down in the haze
As the cameraman pans away
Hey, look, it's a long, lost horizon
Private oceans you can surface a sunrise in
But nevertheless still permanently surprised
Behind a distant smile
A distant smile, a distant smile
Somehow I always seem to be
Adrift in other times behind a distant smile
You will see
3.Fear in the Western World
Lyricist:Christopher Thomas Allen, Warren Reginald Cann, William
Currie, Dennis Leigh, Steven Shears
Your picture of yourself is a media myth
Underneath this floor, we're on the edge of a cliff
Someone told me Jesus was the Devil's lover
While we masturbated on a magazine cover
Dead in the streets, who's that girl?
Ireland screams, Africa burns
Suburbia stumbles, the tides are turned
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western
The Western world
Mama's still on Valium, daddy puts the news on
TV orphans laugh at the confusion
The audience finds itself on the stage
Fifty million people in a state of decay
Dead in the streets, who's that girl?
Ireland screams, Africa burns
Suburbia stumbles, the tides are turned
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western
The Western world
The party goes on behind elevator doors
While the elevator plummets from the 69th floor
All the cars lost in the scrapyards of paradise
The newspaper photographs have all come alive
Dead in the streets, who's that girl?
Ireland screams, Africa burns
Suburbia stumbles, the tides are turned
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western
The Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western world
I can feel the fear in the Western
The Western world
4.Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lyricist:Warren Cann, William Currie, Dennis Leigh
Somehow we drifted off too far
Communicate like distant stars
Splintered voices down the phone
The sunlit dust, the smell of roses drifts, oh no
Someone waits behind the door
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Riding inter-city trains
Dressed in European gray
Riding out to echo beach
A million memories in the trees and sands, oh no
How can I ever let them go?
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Meet beneath the autumn lake
Where only echoes penetrate
Walk through Polaroids of the past
Future's fused like shattered glass, the sun's so low
Turns our silhouettes to gold
Hiroshima Mon Amour
5.Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
Blast off, the walls are down
Cast off, the wolves are out
Come on, there's no time, I can't wait
Rip off my clothes, I'm stripping yours
Harder we're starred, wired and barbed
What a magnificent disgrace
Come on, let's tangle in the dark, dark
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When it's wet and hot you want to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
Penetration boys in hotel lifts
Invitations on sinking ships
The whole wide world fits hip to hip
In aircraft, destroyers and cinema foyers
The chastened, the chasing, amazing the neighbours
Gay, wild and willing, stripped of grace
A sombre rumba in the dark, dark
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
The population's got to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrokrockwrokrockwrok
A doodlebugger in the dark, dark
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When they find the top you've got to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
A nimble mambo in the park, park
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
The population's got to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
An anal sailor in the bar, bar
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
When it's wet and hot you want to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
A (???) in the car park
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
There's nothing left for us, just rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrokrockwrok
A willing waltzer in the car stark (?)
F*ck like a dog, bite like a shark, shark
(???) you want to rockwrok
Rockwrok, rockwrok
Rockwrok
6.The Frozen Ones
Lyricist:John Foxx
Marching across our own screens
Our faces form all our needs
The future's not returning
All bridges built for burning
How can there be anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
One day I'll just erase the tape
Wave goodbye and fade away
Get lost in the frost again
Clean the ashes of my face
At the bottom of your suitcase
Find a sunset, turn away
How can there by anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We walk around inside each other
Visiting the empty rooms
Put me on, I'll put you on too
You knew I'd have to follow you
Because you saw I'm hollow too
But it's so nice being I too
How can there by anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We're nowhere
We don't care who led us here
No one will care when we're gone
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
Too many pictures on my screen
And all of them are screaming at me
Thought I had this insulation
The only way to stop the flood
Whenever feelings get too real
Is to cut the information
How can there be anything wrong?
Aren't we the frozen ones?
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
We're nowhere
We don't care who led us here
No one will care when we're gone
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
The frozen ones
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7.The Man Who Dies Every Day
Lyricist:Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, John Foxx, Stevie
Shears
Someone stood beside me for a moments in the rain
A silhouette, a cigarette and a gesture of disdain
I felt a dark door open, saw a sudden ghost come through
A spark leap from my fingertip and I knew it must be you
Ain't you the man who dies every day?
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
We never saw you walk in, we never saw you leave
You flick the ashes off a lap on everybody's sleeve
You always play that funny pack of cards without an ace
And every street you ever walked is mapped out on your face
'Cause you're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
You always kept a sunset behind your lonely shoulder
You never showed on photographs and you never grew much older
You flicker like a shaky shadow, moving like a thief
You never drop your facade and you never seek relief
'Cause you're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man who dies every day
You're the man
8.While I'm Still Alive
Lyricist:John Foxx
Playing the game
With the chips on my shoulder
Checking in the mirror
As my coffee cup gets colder
Stagger and swagger
Combing my hair
If tomorrow's not there
Then at least today's all mine
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
Strutting my stuff
I'm blagging the damage
From coupling with headlines
I was suckled on salvage
The fighting's exciting
The age is dramatic
I'm crackling with static
Just jiving to survive
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
Take a stroll down the side roads
I know you want to
A shock in the dark
Can be good for your heart, oh yeah
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
Scuffling along
On the crest of a wave
Laughing and grafting
Or jerking and working
Striking a match
Where life is a gas
I need the flash
To make it all worthwhile
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
While I'm still alive
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