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Living In The Plastic Age
Video Killed The Radio Star
Kid Dynamo
I Love You (Miss Robot)
Clean-Clean
Elstree
Astro Boy (And the Proles on Parade)
Johnny on the Monorail
Every day my metal friend Shakes my bed at 6 a.m. Then the shiny serving clones Run in with my telephones Talking fast I make a deal Buy the fake and sell what's real What's this pain here in my chest? Maybe I should take a rest They send the heart police to put you under, Cardiac arrest and as they drag you the door They tell you that you've failed the test Living in the ... Living in the plastic age Looking only half my age Hello doctor lift my face I wish my skin could stand the pace In the bed I read my mind Remember how the mice were blind I watch them fighting in their cage Could this be the plastic age? They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest and as they drag you the door they tell you that you've failed the test Living in the Plastic age (x3) They send the heart police to put you under Cardiac arrest and as they drag you the door They tell you that you've failed the test Living in the plastic age Plastic age Plastic age
I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two Lying awake intent at tuning in on you. If I was young it didn't stop you coming through. Oh-a oh They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine on new technology, and now I understand the problems you can see. Oh-a oh I met your children Oh-a oh What did you tell them? Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. Pictures came and broke your heart. Oh-a-a-a oh And now we meet in an abandoned studio. We hear the playback and it seems so long ago. And you remember the jingles used to go. Oh-a oh You were the first one. Oh-a oh You were the last one. Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone too far Oh-a-aho oh, Oh-a-aho oh Video killed the radio star. Video killed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far. Pictures came and broke your heart, Put the blame on VTR. You are a radio star. You are a radio star. Video killed the radio star... (You are a radio star.)
Though today you might be riding The engines of progress Working in the major factories Call me if you ever feel like letting go I still remember the days of Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo bowowowowowo wa-ah ow wowowowowowo wa-ah ow Spreading in the subways of the playback from the train tracks I think your mind was born with water wings and now when I see you all the generation screams I remember the dreams of Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo, I remember you Kid Dynamo, because I sleep with you Kid Dynamo, cause I have been with you Oh let it be said how the media builds stars and our minds will not change only our cars Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo, I remember you Kid Dynamo, because I think of you Kid Dynamo, cause I have looked at you Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo Kid Dynamo, Kid Dynamo
I love you miss robot electronically I love you miss robot programmed just to please You make love like a metronome don't drive to fast when you take me home touch the seam on your silver skin I feel so hard when you take me in I love you miss robot electronically… I love you miss robot, programmed just to please Talk of love on the telephone when your voice fades theres a paying tone force a coin and your there again and my loneliness is paid away I love you miss robot programmed just to please I love you miss robot Electronically I must leave miss robot, give yourself to me I love you miss robot Do you love me? I love you miss robot electronically I love you miss robot Programmed just to please I must leave miss robot give yourself to me I love you miss robot
Oh go Johnny kick me in the head, Aimin' for the floorboard but they pick me up instead through the ringing from the night before the engines running gotta pay a call Johnny drove the halftrack cause we could not find the jeep with me in the morning gotta get some sleep driving all night out of fear got in the ribs every time I changed gear I'm gonna take a ride, gonna pick up the team gonna go where we've never been I'm gonna pick up the team (pickin up, picken up the team) now you know how it's hard to keep the fighting clean clean (x6) Oh go Johnny gonna fight the war shotgun in the morning at the local liquor store oh go talking bout them diesel fuels Johnny tell the chaplain go and polish his tombs lying on the wasteground with a blanket on his face indicating that he's left the human race hell went open when the world came in gotta keep your head if you wanna win I'm gonna take a ride, gonna pick up the team gonna go where we've never been I'm gonna pick up the team (picking up, pickin up the team) now you know it's hard to keep the fighting clean clean (x9) lost a million in the very first attack clean clean don't you worry cause you know we'll get them back clean clean lost a million in the very first attack clean clean don't you worry cause you know we'll get them back
ACTION I had a dream on a back lot I saw my life like a long shot I smile at faces in a picture parade of all the stills from the films that you've made and we would see me solo up there drinking coffee on the G O condo Elstree, Remember me I had a part in a B movie I played a man from history Elstree, I look at me Now I work for the BBC Life is not what it used to be I took no dives in the fight scene I had a stuntman keep my suit clean there's no technology could make up the song they stop the orchestra and you get it wrong Elstree, remember me I had a part in a B movie I played a man from history Elstree, I look at me Now I work for the BBC Life is not what it used to be Elstree They made a field into a war zone I beat the enemy on my own all the bullets just went over my head there's no reality and no one dead Elstree, remember me I had a part in a B movie I played a man from history Elstree, I look at me now I work for the BBC Life is not what it used to be Elstree Elstree Elstree Elstree Elstree
All of those wild American bilinguals who talk to you in Paris of their lonely lives school days and last days out there in the midwest they climb on their liners and rejoin their wives Walking down boulevards electric eyes would gaze at the waveforms and gasp at their size let them be lonely and say you don't care Astro boy, I'm watching the proles on parade (x2) Una with long hair will stand by your side and the friends who were hungry could swallow your pride chromium pets that video screens would show pictures of helplessness old kings and queens radio stations that fade as in dust all their transmitters are crumbling with rust let them be broken and say you don't care Astro boy, I'm watching the proles on parade (x3) Let them be broken and say you don't care Astro boy, I'm watching the proles on parade
Don't, don't make wars and walkaway even in the streets your feet don't move see their faces through the perspex turn to stare back up at you you, your eyes are green and mine are blue in the subway darkness I am watching you Oh my-my, you are so sci-fi, please will you let me ride? Johnny, riding on the monorail (x3) Monora-a-a-il Oooh, you know that life is terminal, it's the Paris pullman in your mind again eyes like cameras move their lenses take this dream I offer you Johnny, riding on the monorail (x3) All we cannot see we call invisible Tracks that move on pylons through the sky oh my my you are so sci-fi please will you let me ride Johnny, riding on the monorail (x3) Johnny on the monorail (x7)