THE BUGGLES - THE AGE OF PLASTIC


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


Living In The Plastic Age

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

Video Killed The Radio Star

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.)

Kid Dynamo

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)

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

Clean-Clean

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

Elstree

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 

Astro Boy (And the Proles on Parade)

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

Johnny on the Monorail

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)

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