Artificial Life

[Intro]

All the boys are wearing their utility drag

The girls slip identikits from their utility bags

[Verse 1]

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

[Verse 2]

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

[Verse 3]

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]

And it goes on all night, all night

And it goes on and on, the artificial life

[Bridge]

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

[Verse 4]

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

[Verse 5]

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]

And it goes on all night, all night

And it goes on and on, the artificial life