Ultravox

Artificial Life

Ultravox


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

Chorus: 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 realised she'd only turned to pain
She ran through divine light, chemicals, 
Warhol, scientology, her own sex 
Before she turned away 
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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 should have left here years ago 
But my imagination won't tell me how
This whirl pool'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.

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