Uploaded by FallingDown08 on Jun 3, 2008
From their 1977 album Ultravox!.
Lyrics:
I found the bones of all your ghosts
Locked in the wishing well
While birdsong gourmets dragged empty nets
I slumbered in my shell
In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine
Kissed me on my eyes
I rose and left the fire-ladies
Glowing lonely in the night
With all the pornographers
Burning torches beneath the sea
Chorus:
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I want to be a machine
I stole a cathode face from newscasts
And a crumbling fugue of songs
From the reservoir of video souls
In the lakes beneath my tongue
In flesh of ash and silent movies
I walked at boulevards again
A nebula of unfinished creatures
From the lifetimes of my friends
I hope your innocence has depraved me
(Chorus)
Broadcast me, scrambled clean
Or free me from this flesh
Let the armchair cannibals take their fill
In every cell across wilderness
We'll trip such a strangled tango
We'll waltz a wonderland affair
Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow
Leave all emotion dying there
In the star cold beyond all of your dreams
(Chorus)
Ah!
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Not heard this cracking song since i was a teenager and a proud owner of the album .. Billy Currie on violin, Chris Cross ,Warren Cann a cracking band
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Very David Bowie, isn't it?
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Violin in a punk band can only be a good thing
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@sespir21 I was thinking of The Ritz! But rip-off is a bit unfair. This is fantastic and so is Psychomodo. :)
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bass @ 2:35
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cool forgot all about trhis , use to play it alot on vinyl back in the " new wave " era.thanx
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Complete genius!!! ive played this song at least twice a week for the last 34yrs! just brilliant!
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bass @ 4:20
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this song is all.
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sounds like David Bowie sound
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the entrance of bass in this song is something extraordinary
armandsdamanhoo 11 months ago 12
@newfuckingwave I can’t remember where I read it but I know Dennis’s dad followed him upstairs to his room shouting “Now listen here, me laddo! I’ve just about had enough of you and your cheek !” He tried to open Dennis’s bedroom door but it had been locked. From inside came the sound of whirring cogs and hissing microchips. “Lerrus in, what d’yer think yer bloomin’playin’at? You’ll gerra clout!” cried the father. Suddenly the door opened. Before the stunned northern patriarch stood a ........
gigsing 4 months ago 5