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Fadeout 1930 era
I never really tried you out
But all my friends who used to be
Just never had the time for me

You can change your colours
I'll just change my point of view
I'll live a lie to prove my point
Or i'll turn all my thought to you

Fadeout 1930
Keep a low profile
Strange how it gets around
Out of sight, out of mind
I look through me, i'm out of mine

Everything i say, i've heard
And nothings mine except my wall
Do you being (begin?) to see
There really is no me at all

Fadeout 1930

Please don't feel scared
Nothing's ever quite what it seems
I hope the sadness doesn't show
For i still cling to some old dreams

Private thoughts just to you
My head liked private ways
I've never tried so hard before
I've really nothing left to say

Fadeout 1930

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'

I listen to rumours
Stone cold and bleeding
They burn my heart away
Left me alone and afraid
Words seem to leave me
Just when i needed them
Just like i need you
Like i'm supposed to do
They say:
Love is deceiving
She won't stay forever
Love is deceiving
Is all that she knows
Love is deceiving
She'll leave you forever
Love is deceiving
She comes and she goes
I wonder
I wonder

I listen to rumours
Listen to everyone
Everyone but you
And now it's all too late

Streetcar is rusting
The tracks are all gone
You're far too trusting
But i won't take long
Old friends of someone
Lie dead in the street
The back scene director
Knows just who i'll meet

No visions of my life
Will flash past my eyes
I've waited thousands of years
For this prize
Someone is calling
But who's left alive
Just me and you dear
Please show some surprise
I've always been this way
Please believe me

Yellowed newspapers
Drift past empty cabs
Dead hotel bellboys
Dream of old men they've had
Ex-junkies in my house
Are all blue and green
Please don't cry. i love you
I'm not what i seem

Isn't it lovely
It's just you and me
I've never felt
So happy to be here
Look through my window
At the hole in my wall
Straight into my head
There's nobody at all

Do you think you can love me
I am no-one

If you were the only girl in the world
And i was the only boy

The new law is moving in
Now you see them now you don't
Like a shadow in my diguise
Like a soft machine on ice
Who are you?
'i'm the man
I am the cure and disease'
Who am i?
I'm the need
I am the weakness that feeds

I've got to rip it up
I've got to tear it down
I've got to break the word
I've got to fight for you

Who am i to criticise
I'm unsafe at any speed
'we can change the world' she said
Never changed it never tried
I'm cold and hard
But i don't mind
I've been everything i can be
I've been sick
And i've got he screams
These boys don't know when to push

Did you know that i don't run
Did you know that i don't hide
Did you know that i don't sleep
Did you know that i don't care

I am the soft machine
I am the word and the law
I am the new machine
I am your feelings and more
Come inside and play with me
I'll show you things to forget
No-one talks
And no-one leaves
No-one remembers the way

I've got to fight the man
I've got to fight the need
I've got to fight the law
I've got to fight the word

I know how to read alone
Here in the dark some old stories are told.
The telephone haunts me
Like a picture of things that i'd never
Bring home.

Chorus:
She cries like i do
Too late for new words.
She cries like i do
???? it's a man.

No-one is allowed in here
I'm the ????? new feelings ???
This edge in my voice lacks? sense
I never touched your heart
I suppose.

(repeat chorus)

She cries like i do
Like we're supposed to
She cries like i do
Here in the dark.

I'm so surprised.

Why don't you ever listen?
It's you i'm talking to
This time it's your decision
We're into something new
I know that i'm sinking
Oh any fool can see
Time that i was thinking
Of no-one else but me

Change your mind
Nothing ever stays the same
Change your mind
No-one ever plays the game game game
Change your mind
Give up what you can't defend
Change your mind
Think it up and start again 'gain 'gain

Why can't you reconsider
Listen if you care
Take familiar giver
Reject me if you dare
Give me what i'm asking
And save it all for me
Love that's everlasting
That's how it's meant to be

Change your mind
Nothing ever stays the same
Change your mind
No-one ever plays the game game game
Change your mind
Give up what you can't defend
Change your mind
Think it up and start again 'gain 'gain

Change your mind
Nothing ever stays the same
Change your mind
No-one ever plays the game game game
Change your mind
Give up what you can't defend
Change your mind
Think it up and start again 'gain 'gain

See the strange boy keeping to the shadows
He's a very good friend of mine
I've seen you running from the ladies
Don't tell me you're not that kind
I've got the time if you've got the money
Mister you'll be pleased you'll see
We'll meet by the tubeway as the screamer cries eleven
And you can have your way with me
You're gonna make me feel so cold

See my one love talking to the pretty boy
I never did like her taste
My skin is rubber on a skeletal body
I'm physically going to waste
Feel my eyes and the tongue of a killer
I'm a humanoid logic machine
Don't touch me with your painted little fingers
'cos i know where they've been
You're not gonna put those scabs on me

I must hide from a thousand grinning faces
All sucking from my crazy mind
Take a ride out in my imagery of ages
And heaven knows what you will find
I've no time for the chitter-chatter ladies
I'm so busy trying to break this wall
Hear my words 'cos emotion now is leaving
You see i'm really not a human at all
And i don't think i wanna stay

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

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

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

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)

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 lose myself in the night
Walking the streets in the rain.
I turn away from the light
To find the shadows again.

I see her face in the window
I feel the touch of her hand
I hear her voice say "i need you"
I guess i can't understand

Radio heart
Play a sad song for me
One fom the heart
So she'll come back for me
Radio heart
Send her my love for me

I hear a sound in the night
Could be the turn of a key
And when i switch on the light
It's you i'm hoping to see

Imagination
You play a cruel cool game
Imagination
You leave me calling her name

Radio heart
Play a sad song for me
One from the heart
So she'll come back for me

The morning after
I find no inspiration
No love no laughter
Just my imagination

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

She dances
He watches
She sighs
Remember
Love needs no disguise

In motion
That cannot deny
She's saying
Love needs no disguise

And if the park gates are closed
Remember we toured the skys
And if the 'friends' all go home
You know love needs no disguise

He dances
And we realised
Remember
Love needs no disguise

In simple embraces
They lie
In darkness
Love needs no disguise

And we can lock all the doors
Forget the reasons and fame
There's no deceiving inside
You know we'll all be the same

My friends have
Been demoted to
Stay
Second class

Someone tells me
Reliable
Big brother will
Never last

Seems like i
Outgrew my station
Sweet young boys turning green
This is for your information

Mean street i'd love to see you cry
Mean street i'd love to see you die
Mean street i really don't know why
Mean street you let me down

Look at him
Taking all our glory
Let's kick him out

'who will say?'
'don't look at me'
'he'll find out in a roundabout way'

We don't owe him anything
We don't need him anymore
Drop him cold now spread the lies
No-one even said goodbye

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.

It's so quiet and dark
And i shouldn't be here
This machine won't last
For always

Just my steel friend and me
I stand brave by his side
This machine is all
I live for

I can see in your eyes
You're not so sure about me
This machine is my voice
Please listen

It's so noisy and bright
And i just love being here
This machine will last
For my life