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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

Jo the waiter spilling wine
Over some ex-friends of mine
In zero cafe number 9
What you gonna say this time

Basic j, say, are you new here

New ones walking down the stairs
Pretty young thing but no-one cares
Jo the waiter drops the tray
Do you always know your name

Jo the waiter smiled at me
Jo the waiter's company
I keep him in a book by my fireside
A drama is my perfect bride

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)

Everything
Everything reminds me
Easily
You walking out so easily
No goodbyes
Not even a tear for me
Now you cry
You'd like to have my company

But i'm not gonna call you again
I'm not gonna pick up the phone
No i'm not going through it again
You're not gonna leave me alone

No more lies
I don't need this anymore
I've heard it all
Now i'm gonna close the door
Seems to me
Nothing comes that easily
Time to leave
You'll take it all and run from me

But i'm not gonna call you again
I'm not gonna pick up the phone
No i'm not going through it again
You're not gonna leave me alone

I'm not gonna call you again
I'm not gonna pick up the phone
No i'm not going through it again
You're not gonna leave me alone

But i'm not gonna call you again
I'm not gonna pick up the phone
No i'm not going through it again
You're not gonna leave me alone

I'm not gonna call you again
I'm not gonna pick up the phone
No i'm not going through it again
You're not gonna leave me alone

But i'm not gonna call you again
I'm not gonna pick up the phone
No i'm not going through it again
You're not gonna leave me alone

This is metal rhythm
A new song on the radio
Some new face
A picture on your wall
Talk to me
You say it's nothing personal
But somethings wrong
It's eating me alive
I can't fine the reason
So i can't find the cure

They say nothings's wrong forever
But that somethings wrong with me
Oh i've been down so far
I've never hurt like this

I'm on automatic
I've heard it all before
Some new flavour
With nothing in the hear
This isn't music
This is survival
But i'm still here
Now isn't that strange
I can't find the reason
So i can't find the cure

They say nothing's wrong forever
But that somethings wrong with me
Oh i've been down so far
I've never hurt like this

They say nothing's wrong forever
But that somethings wrong with me
Oh i've been down so far
Nothing's ever hurt like this

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)

We are not
What you've been waiting for
We are not
The things you need
We are not
Softly singing love songs
All we are
Here for is right
Room for one more
Here in this room
We play games
Room for one more
Here in this room
You can feel it all
We need it
To keep the shakes away
We need it
To help us breathe
We need it
For everything we feel
We need it
Like we need you

-repeat chorus-

We break down
Start up the smile i suppose
You learn quick
You learn nothing
One more girl
Just leaves us wanting more
This young love
Just leaves us cold

-repeat chorus-

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)

I don't wanna hear you talk
And i don't wanna go for walks
But i just wanna lay you flat
Well you think you're so good at that

I've got no time for your sad eyes
I don't care if you say good-bye
I don't really think that i want
Anything to do with your

Out of sight
Out of mind

The radio continues 'round me
Blending faces glaring at me
How was i to telephone
Crawl away to end it all

Spiral staircase leads to nowhere
I an take you somewhere (who cares)
Dee-dee's crazy as a model
I'd break your heart if i'd got time

Out of sight
Out of mind

I hate you all i hate you all
You're breaking down my message wall

Out of sight
Out of mind

(the two last verses are missing in the cd booklet.)

This is icehouse
I've seen them, i've seen the danger
I've seen some things
I'll remember if i live forever.

Chorus:
I need dream killers
I need your pictures
I don't need heroes
I need opinions
I need religion
I don't need heroes

I'll use the trick
It hurts but i'm thinking clearly.
You bite with sound
Recorded speech is in the throat of your god

(repeat chorus)

Don't break my heart

(repeat chorus)

Wrong place, wrong time.
The american dream's sure to save me.
One more mistake,
So this is the art of survival.

(repeat chorus)

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

Treated like a refugee
Never seems to be a place for me
In my mind there is a scene i see
My house is burning
No-one returning
To a land once free.

Dreaming like a deportee
Cast away upon the open sea
No hand of friendship for the likes of me.
I feel the thunder
I'm going under
And i can't get free.

If there is a heaven
I don't want to hang around this hell.
I could be an angel
Let god (slip? )out of heaven back to hell.

And i say
I wont cry, no more tears
I wont cry, no more tears

Carry me away from here
Cut the crying and the see-through tear
Make emotion dissappear
My life is changing
I'm re-arranging
Everything i feel.