Ultravox - Artificial Life

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Song 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

(Chorus)

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)

Release History

1988

Artificial Life

1. Artificial Life (4:57)

1991

Dangerous Rhythm (Live In Stockholm 1977)

1. I Want To Be A Machine (7:23)
2. Slip Away (3:57)
3. The Frozen Ones
4. Distant Smile (5:25)
5. Young Savage (2:54)
6. My Sex (2:53)
7. Artificial Life (4:57)
8. Wide Boys
9. Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead (2:34)
10. The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned (4:36)
11. ROckwrok (3:21)
12. Fear In The Western World

0000-00-00

Echoes of Pleasure

1. The Man Who Dies Everyday (4:17)
2. Walk Away (3:30)
3. Western Promise (5:22)
4. Slip Away (3:57)
5. Vienna (4:56)
6. Young Savage (2:54)
7. Some Of Them (2:35)
8. Someone Else's Clothes (4:53)
9. Blue Light (3:19)
10. Hroshima Mon Amour (8:53)
11. Slow Motion (3:27)
12. Hiroshima Mon Amour (4:57)
13. Private Lives (4:08)
14. ROckwrok (3:21)
15. Artificial Life (4:57)
16. New Europeans (4:03)
17. Theme '80 (1:07)
18. All Stood Still (3:41)
19. Just For A Moment (3:11)
20. Quiet Men (4:07)
21. Passing Strangers (3:50)
22. Quiet Man (4:07)
23. Sleepwalk (3:11)
24. Astradyne (7:08)
25. Face To Face (5:49)
26. I Can't Stay Long (3:41)
27. Liquid (5:45)
28. Mr X (6:32)
29. The Kings Lead Hat (4:50)

0000-00-00

Echos Of Pleasure

1. The Man Who Dies Everyday (4:17)
2. Slip Away (3:57)
3. Some Of Them (2:35)
4. Slow Motion (3:27)
5. Hiroshima Mon Amour (4:57)
6. Artificial Life (4:57)
7. Just For A Moment (3:11)
8. Quiet Men (4:07)
9. I Can't Stay Long (3:41)
10. Liquid (5:45)
11. Walk Away (3:30)
12. Young Savage (2:54)
13. Someone Else's Clothes (4:53)
14. Blue Light (3:19)
15. ROckwrok (3:21)
16. Theme '80 (1:07)
17. Passing Strangers (3:50)
18. Face To Face (5:49)
19. Mr X (6:32)
20. Western Promise (5:22)
21. Vienna (4:56)
22. Private Lives (4:08)
23. New Europeans (4:03)
24. All Stood Still (3:41)
25. Sleepwalk (3:11)
26. Astradyne (7:08)
27. The Kings Lead Hat (4:50)

10 March 2009

Ha! Ha! Ha!

1. ROckwrok (3:21)
2. The Frozen Ones
3. Fear In The Western World
4. Distant Smile (5:25)
5. The Man Who Dies Everyday (4:17)
6. Artificial Life (4:57)
7. While I'm Still Alive (3:17)
8. Hiroshima Mon Amour (4:57)

0000-00-00

Previous Motion

1. I Want To Be A Machine (7:23)
2. Slip Away (3:57)
3. The Frozen Ones
4. Distant Smile (5:25)
5. Young Savage (2:54)
6. My Sex (2:53)
7. The Man Who Dies Every Day (3:41)
8. Artificial Life (4:57)
9. Wide Boys
10. Satday Night In The City Of The Dead
11. The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned (4:36)
12. ROckwrok (3:21)
13. Western World

0000-00-00

Systems

1. I Want To Be A Machine (7:23)
2. Slipaway
3. Frozen Ones (4:08)
4. Distant Smile (5:25)
5. Young Savage (2:54)
6. My Sex (2:53)
7. Artificial Life (4:57)
8. Wide Boys / Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead
9. The Wild, The Beautiful And The Damned (4:36)
10. Rock Wrok (3:37)
11. Fear In The Western World

1991

The Peel Sessions

1. My Sex (2:53)
2. Artificial Life (4:57)
3. Young Savage (2:54)