Ultravox: "Artificial Life" Lyrics

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 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.

 

 (Chorus)