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John Foxx – Metal Beat (1980) | Track profile | Dork

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Metal Beat

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Metal Beat

Release date: 18th January 1980

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About This Track

"Metal Beat" is a track by John Foxx, from the album Metamatic, released 18th January 1980. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

John Foxx

John Foxx

Lyrics

Metal Beat

[Chorus]

Metal beat

Metal beat

Metal beat

Metal beat

[Verse 1]

Jim Suit, black hair

Dim skin, gold teeth

A trickle voice like a silver sheet

The pulling of the light

Reflecting in my eyes

Pick up a flip-top box from a vinyl seat

(Seat, seat)

[Chorus]

Metal beat

Metal beat

Metal beat

Metal beat

[Instrumental bridge]

[Verse 2]

Drift in, drift out

We're gone, I'm here

Click on, click off

No, no

Don't get too near

Name on the shatterproof glass

Melt into a mass

Let's slide across me in this heat

[Chorus]

Metal beat

Metal beat

Metal beat

Metal beat

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Track details

From Metamatic

1980

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Album

Release year

1980

—A Blurred Girl
—He's a Liquid
—Touch and Go
—Metal Beat
—A New Kind of Man
—Tidal Wave
—This City
—To Be With You
—030
—Cinemascope
—20th Century
—Plaza
—Young Love

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