1. PLASTIC AGE

Every day my metal friend
Shakes my bed at 6am
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
Plastic age
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
Plastic age
Plastic age


2. VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR

I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two
Lying awake in intently tuning in on you.
If i was young it didn't stop you coming through.
o-wa-o

They took the credit for your second symphony.
Rewritten by machine on new technology,
And now i understand the problems you can see.
o-wa-o

I met your children
o-wa-o

What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.

Pictures came and broke your heart.
Oh oh oh 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.
o-wa-o

You were the first one.
o-wa-o

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 to far

o-wa-o
o-wa-o

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.
o-wa-o

Pictures came and broke your heart,
Put the blame on vcr.

You are a radio star.
You are a radio star.

Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.

Video killed the radio star.
Video killed the radio star.

Video killed the radio star.
(you are a radio star.)


3. 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


4. I LOVE YOU (MISS ROBOT)

I love you miss robot
Electronic tease
I love you miss robot
Programmed just to please

You make love like a metronome
Don't drive too fast when you take me home
Touch that seam on your silver skin
That fells so hard when you take me in

I love you miss robot
Electronic tease
I love you miss robot
Programmed just to please

Talk of love on the telephone
When your voice fades there's a paying tone
Force the coin and you're there again
D.I the loneliness brain to brain

I love you miss robot
Electronic tease
I love you miss robot
Programmed just to please

Endlessly miss robot
Give your love to me
I love you miss robot
Do you love me ?


5. CLEAN CLEAN

Pogo Johnny kicked me in the head
Aiming for the floorboards
But they picked me up instead
Through the ringings of the night before
Said the engines's running
Got to pay a call

Johnny drove the half-truck 'cos we
Could not find a jeep
Wake me in the morning
Gotta get some sleep
Drivin'all night out of fear
Got it in the ribs

Every time you changed gear
I'm gonna take a ride, gonna pick up the team
Gonna go where we've never been
I'm gonna take a ride, gonna pick up the team
A pickin'up, a pickin'up the team
God, you know it's hard to keep the fighting clean

Clean, clean, clean, clean
Clean, clean, clean, clean

Pogo Johnny gonna fight the war
Chaplin in the morning at the local liquor store
Pogo Johnny' bad from diesel fumes
Johnny tell the Chaplin go and polish his tombs

Lying on the waste ground whith a blanket on his face
Indicating that he's left the human race
Helmet open where 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 take a ride, gonna pick up the team
A pickin'up, a pickin'up the team
God, you know it's hard to keep the fighting clean

Clean, clean, clean, clean
Clean, clean, clean, clean

Lost a million in our very first attack
Don't you worry cos we know we'll get them back


6.ELESTREE

I had a dream on a back lot
And saw my life like a long shot
Of smiling faces in a picture parade
All the stills from the films that you made
That we would see in th "Essoldo"
After drinking coffee at "La Gioconda"

(Chorus)
Elstree, remember me
I had a part in a B-movie
I played a man from history
Elstree, look at me
Now i work for the BBC
Life is not that it used to be

I took no dives in the fight scenes
I had a stuntman, kept my suit clean
There's no technology to fake-up a song
They stop the orchestra
If you get it wrong !

(Chorus)

They made a field into a war zone
I beat the enemy on my own
All the bullets just went over my head

No reality
And no-one dead
In
Elstree


7. 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
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade

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
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade
Let them be broken and say you don't care
Astro boy, i'm watching the proles on parade


8. JOHNNY ON THE MONRAIL

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
Johnny, riding on the monorail
Johnny, riding on the monorail

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
Johnny, riding on the monorail
Johnny, riding on the monorail

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
Johnny riding on the monorail
Johnny riding on the monorail

Johnny on the monorail
Johnny on the monorail
Johnny on the monorail
Johnny on the monorail
Johnny on the monorail
Johnny on the monorail
Johnny on the monorail