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You could say i'm pretentious
You could say i'm the nazz
You could hail me as the new king of it all
You could say i'm nothing new
You could speak well of me
You could say it's already been done before

What will you make of my lines
What will you think i've said
What hidden secrets will you say are in my head

I feel you waiting for me
Waiting to dig my grave
I'm growing scared of everything you could say

Look in my eyes
There's no surprise at all
Critical mind
What will you find to say

Old faces in my wardrobe
So many i've not seen
Memories to look back on people i've been
Dead love on faded carpets
Nostalgia grows with time
I see your face in mirrors shadowing mine
I see your dirty finger
Marks are still on my wall
I can recall the time we tried it that way
In dingy hotel backrooms
Where paint cracks like your face
I must admit i have acquired the taste (?)

Stab my arm
With your synthetic feelings
You amaze me
I crave for you

You could say i'm pretentious
You could say i'm the nazz
You could hail me as the new king of it all

I could talk of memories
I could talk of miracles
I can't talk of anything but you
I remember everything
Even how you laughed at me
I remember every word you said

'love is a game
Love is a game that we play
Love is a game
Love is a game and you lose
Welcome to love'

Now you're waiting for someone
Waiting for the phone to ring
And i wonder who you're waiting for
There is nothing i can say
There are no good words for this
There is nothing more that i can do

'lovers are fools
Lovers are foolish in the dark
Lovers are fools
Lovers are foolish and blind
Welcome to love'

Sometimes i feel
I live like a prisoner
But i don't know
If this really is pressure
Surprise you win
I'm lost as screamers roll in
Sometimes i feel
Like leaving this room i'm in

Faded film people dropping words
About the real things to say
? (not "someone pulls me deeper", as in cd booklet)
And tells me who i will be if i stay
A clever machine writes pretty words
For pretty boys
To sing to us all
We're all so grateful

My face you cry
And i show my darker side
The night is yours
And i just switch off and hide
Cafe and sin
The wine's not to my liking
My face you cry
Oh my didn't i say come in?

Frown (?) in my eyes showing nothing
But surprise about you
And what are you thinking
About my life and her drinking to you too
A dying non-human writes unkind words
For unkind friends
And as for the tears, they'll never show
Asylum people calling on my door
From day to day
The image must fall
I've had my time

I've done things god should've questioned
But i don't care.
I've seen things that made my flesh crawl
But i was young.
I've said things that you believed in
But i don't mean.
I heard things, one more confession that
Leaves me cold.

My picture ashames you
My picture
My picture ashames me
My picture

This ain't love, this ain't affection
But you don't care.
This ain't need, i'm not the fashion
So leave my heart.
So good god were you mistaken
Now will i burn?
No more lies no more distraction
So pay you back.

Religion ashames you
Religion
Religion ashames me
Religion

I'm lying shame on me
(secrets forever)
This disease shame on me
(secrets forever)
My memories shame on me
(secrets forever)
Abandon,abandon me
(secrets forever)

This fashion ashames you
This fashion
This passion ashames me
This passion

I'll never ashame you
I'll never ashamed me.

A stranger, shame on me
(secrets forever)
Nostalgia, shame on me
(secrets forever)
Religion, shame on me
(secrets forever)
Abandon, abandon me.

I've done things god should've questioned
But i don't care.

I'm playing at ice
But i'm finding it hard
She didn't break the wall
She just caught me off guard

Can you see ice in my eyes
Can you see ice in my eyes

I'm just a little bit sorry
But i haven't decided why
Could it be my memory
Or did i ever really cry

Can you see ice in my eyes
Can you see ice in my eyes

Fill my head with your false feelings
I can't trust anything you say
Today i missed a special friend
That never really cared anyway

Can you see ice in my eyes
Can you see ice in my eyes
Can you see ice in my eyes
Can you see ice in my eyes

London times
Hear they were the golden times
Captured all the hearts and minds
Oh how the memory shines
Like diamonds
Keep shining, like diamonds

London times
Say they were the best of times
Dancing till the big bell chimes
Oh how the memory shines
Like diamonds
Keep shining, keep shining
Shine away

Those were the days of (power?)
Sing yeah for the beatle and the stone
These were the days
Yeah yeah yeah

-repeat chorus-

Something isn't right
I get the feeling i'm not driving
Something hasn't quite
Taken over but it's trying

Check it, check it

The question now is time
The hours pass so slowly
I know we're moving out of line
But that's the risk you're taking with me

I flicker like an old film - black white
I'm losing track of what's real - i know
My sense of timing's not quite - ok
Maybe i'll stay tonight - so so

Fadeout, as in lose
My character is shrapnel
Broken by the views
Of men who claim to know all
(there is to know)

Something isn't right
I get the feeling i am no-one
Something hasn't quite
Stopped me from being someone

Nothing in the mirror - check it
No photo by my bedside - check it
My self control is missing - check it
I'll leave with your permission - check it

Final bow
In a disused music hall
Of laughter and mime
The airwave police
Were the only
Admirers to admire

Sliding sideways in a rusty old ford
The drivers broke down and
A young girl screams
Walking through rock dreams
Tall stories
Mobile t.v. radio
Nobody came

The station is abandoned
Deserted for peace day
Some old man said 'just do your best'
And i think passed away

My shadow is never far behind
And i must find another role to play
Visit maskmaker
Please bend my mind
Someone, no one
I really don't mind
Nobody cares

So i fall
Like the rain
Sometimes i almost cry again

I've seen my pictures
Peeling from walls
It's like a witness of truth
To the end of it all

Here we are
No-one came
I've been waiting for this for years

Do you wonder
How i'm feeling?
Did you whisper the truth
Like a memory of pain?

No angel
To guide me
No angel
Can find me

Walk away
Walk away from me
I won't cry, i won't cry
Take my life
Take my life from me
I won't cry, i won't cry

Like a whisper of truth
Save me.

Only one recording of this song by gary numan is known, and no official
Lyrics are available. it seems that gary has combined elements from two
Different versions of the song - the original velvet underground version
And the david bowie cover - and then added some of his own, which is why
I've elected to credit all three musicians.
Original velvet underground version

White light, go on messing up my mind
Don't you know it's gonna make me go blind?
White heat, it tickles me down to my toes
Have mercy, white light, have it, goodness knows

White light, go on messing up my brain
White light, it's gonna drive me insane
White heat, it tickles me down to my toes
White light i said now, goodness knows, do it

I surely do love to watch that stuff shooting itself in
Watch that side, watch that side, don't you know, gonna be dead and bright
Yeah, foxy mama, watch her walking down the street
Come upside, your head's gonna make a dead end on your street

White light, move in me and drain my brain
White heat, it tickles me down to my toes
White light, i said now, goodness knows

White light is lighting up my eyes
Don't you know it fills me up with surprise?
White heat, tickle me down to my toes
White light, i tell you now, goodness knows

Oh, she surely do move, speed
Watch that speed freak, watch that speed freak,
Everybody gonna make it every week
Sputter mutter, everbody's gonna kill their mother
Here she comes, here she comes, everybody get it, gonna make me run, do it
Higher


David bowie's version

White light - white light gonna drive me out of my brain
White light - white light gonna make me feel so insane
White heat - white shapin' them down to my toes
White light - white light's got it now, goodness knows

White light - white light gonna drive me out of my mind
White light - white light's surely gonna make me blind
White heat - white shaping way down to my toes
White light - white light could kill me now, goodness knows

Oh, oh, white light
Oh, oh, white light
Oh, oh, white heat
Oh, oh, white heat

Verse 1

Verse 2

Chorus (twice)

White light's a-flashing

White light
Still feels right
What's that sound, what's that sound
Don't turn on, be dead or alive
No feeling
Here she comes
Oww, yeah
(oh, oh, oh, oh) here she comes
(oh, oh, oh, oh)
(ah, ah, ah, ah)

I've seen them come
I've seen them go
I've seen them all
Call this affection
I've seen them do things
You wouldn't believe
I can't remember your name
I can't remember the time
I can't remember at all
Never again

She wants film
She wants sound
She wants everything
It's not love
In slow motion
It's a strange new game
You've got a picture of me
And i've got a picture of you
But who's got a picture of us?
Never again

Do it once more for the man on the phone
Do it once more for the boys in the band
Do it once more for the girl with no heart
Will you do it once more for me?

She's black
She's white
She could be anything
She looks good
She looks bad
She could tear me apart
Just say goodbye when you leave
And i'll say goodbye when you're gone
We'll say goodbye in the dark
But never again

Do it once more for the man on the phone
Do it once more for the boys in the band
Do it once more for the girl with no heart
Will you do it once more for me?

I've heard your story before
I'll hear your story again
Now i've got a story for you
Never again

Do it once more for the man on the phone
Do it once more for the boys in the band
Do it once more for the girl with no heart
Will you do it once more for me?

Do it once more for the man on the phone
Do it once more for the boys in the band
Do it once more for the girl with no heart
Will you do it once more for me?

Well you're pretty quick to say you love me
But i've met your kind before
So i took you twice on our first night
That doesn't mean i'm going to trust you too far

Love your blue eyes
When you cry
Love your blue eyes

You tried to make me crawl far too soon
But you should know me better by now
I didn't even feel like trying with you
I knew that i could break you somehow

Love your blue eyes
When you cry
Love your blue eyes

Love is unsafe i'm sure
Wrong love,
Wrong time,
Wrong move.
Love is too short, too sharp.
Wrong men,
Wrong place,
Wrong heart.

Chorus:

I don't believe in love and
I don't believe in you and
I don't believe in anything

Love is too cold, too close.
Because pictures tv
Love is you ??????? with film.
You don't know me at all.

(repeat chorus to fade)

Got to pull it up
Got to pull it out
Got to survive
Got to stay calm
Got to think fast
Don't want to burn
Searching for a door
Searching for a way
Out of this thing
I don't know what's wrong
Don't know what to do
I'm out of control
Nothing i can do
Nothing seems to work
I'm barely alive
Got to slow it down
Got to do something
Or give in
Watching us fall
Trying everything
Fighting for life
Running out of time
I don't have a choice
I'm riding it in

I'm inside and i'm trying to get out
I'm inside and i'm screaming for some help
And everything's gone wrong
I'm listening to the sound of my own fear
I'm listening to the sound of someone's tears
I'm listening to me

This is the fear
This is nothing like
You could believe
Panic in my heart
Like a cold hand
Pulling at strings
I'll do anything
Even pray to god
Just let me out
Turn off the machine
Turn off all the noise
Turn off the world

I'm inside and i'm trying to get out
I'm inside and i'm screaming for some help
And everything's gone wrong
I'm listening to the sound of my own fear
I'm listening to the sound of someone's tears
I'm listening to me

I'm inside and i'm trying to get out
I'm inside and i'm screaming for some help
And everything's gone wrong
I'm listening to the sound of my own fear
I'm listening to the sound of someone's tears
I'm listening to me

You learn fast when everything breaks down
You learn fast when that's all that you can do
You learn fast or nothing

I've seen enough of life,
Enough to last a lifetime.
I've seen too many tears,
Far too many tears.

I don't know the answer,
I don't know the question.
So show me something good,
Something to believe in.

Chorus:
Love like a ghost, in the dark.
Love like a ghost, in my heart.

So let's talk of love,
Maybe for the last time.
You will remember me,
I'm the one who died for you.

So she'll take everything,
Everything and nothing.
I can't do anything,
Anything at all.

(repeat chorus to fade)

Heartbeat
I can't see you
Heartbeat
I can hear you
I feel you pumping just beyond my door
I know exactly
What you've crawled here for
Cringe down lower
You're all dressed in grey
Me, i'm still breathing
It's just not your day

I hear you whisper like an open grave
O.d. receiver, i am all you crave
You're dying, crying, i can hear you fall
Your bony fingers scratching on my wall

O.d. receiver

I hear you screaming, well at least you try
Me, i'm still smiling but i don't know why
I'd call a doctor if i had the time
But i'm so busy with this fix of mine

O.d. receiver...

I look up and the camera eye is
Searching my room
The tv screen is calling me
But for what or whom
Please mister do be careful
I'm so fragile
Maybe they'll let me down
To speedy's place for a while

Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad
Oh well that's too bad

I talk a lot, a sign of fear
I thought you should know
I can see pictures of me well
They're so-so
I'll come on to the leader
Like i'm some hero
He'll laugh and raise his dying eyes
And just tell me to go

1920 flashbacks for an hour or more
Of crazy actors hiding
In the doorways top floor
Machines scream in anger
From a thousand dead ends
I turn my face, i crawl away,
I look for a friend

I know that you already take as read
I helped you
You know the back of my hand


I wish that we were enchanted
Girl, now i take it for granted


Your love was starin' me right in the heart
Why does our pride make us weak?
While i was wonderin' where to start
You were there to show me
All i had to learn


You were way off the mark
Most of it in the dark
Found you now


Tiny light, give the peace
With which we reach indecision
I guess we lived in the meantime
Till we remembered our first lines


We must have missed a turn
Still got a lot to learn
Found you now


So now we live a life of give and take
Day by day
We don't control where it leads us


If we compare the first day we met
I must admit nothing's changed
I recognize only one regret
Life embarassments unexpressed


Found you now
Found you now

Something here
Something is cold and you know
To speak now is to lie
Sad mistake
Maybe it's mine but i know
You wake up with strangers
Is this love
If i said goodbye there would be
No-one to listen
I could ask
"how do you feel?" but i know
You breathe in emotion

So goodbye
I can't play anymore
So goodbye
I'm off the friendship line
So goodbye
I'm breathing emotion like some hero
Breathe in emotion

I could cry
"nothing is wrong" but you know
I don't believe it
I could write
Words on a page but i know
Love doesn't live here
Look at me
Look at my eyes and you'll know
Everything's over
This is me
This is my heart and you know
I breathe in emotion

So goodbye
I can't play anymore
So goodbye
I'm off the friendship line
So goodbye
I'm breathing emotion like some hero
Breathe in emotion

So goodbye
I can't play anymore
So goodbye
I'm off the friendship line
So goodbye
I'm breathing emotion like some hero

So goodbye
I can't play anymore
So goodbye
I'm off the friendship line
So goodbye
I'm breathing emotion like some hero

So goodbye
I can't play anymore
So goodbye
I'm off the friendship line
So goodbye
I'm breathing emotion like some hero

Somewhere in the city
There's a struggle going on
Someone's making money
Someone's doing wrong
Everybody searching for a little piece of gold
(power play?)(fix a face?) never grow old
It's a shame
Who's gonna take control?
It's a game they play
Who's gonna save your soul?
And they're never gonna stop
Till they reach the top
All across the nation
Fever takes control
Money is temptation
Money saves your soul
One thing i can tell you
Of this there is no doubt
The rich man needs his comfort
And the poor man does without
Everybody loves somebody
All around the world
But everybody knows
It's the rich man gets the girl
-chorus-
Look at all the little people
(cowering?) from the rain
Standing at the bus stop
Dreaming 'bout spain
Here comes the rich man
Driving his car
When he was poor he was sure
He was gonna go far
-repeat chorus to fade-