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Beat Boy

Release date: 22nd October 1984

About This Track

"Beat Boy" is a track by Visage, from the album Beat Boy, released 22nd October 1984. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Visage

Visage

Lyrics

Beat Boy

(Beat boy...)

The siren screams to start the day

You get up early to earn your pay

Push the button throw that switch

Turbines roar their unholy pitch

I listen I can hear

Pounding like thunder

Pistons push the steel on steel

Steam filled air turns the wheel

The wheel in turn takes the strain

Pounds the beat again and again

(Beat boy...)

Metal on metal

The feeling of steel

Someone is driving

But you've got the wheel

The workers sing the same old song

Machines in motion they're never wrong

You think in time you will be free

But a factory man is what you'll be

I listen I can hear

Pounding like thunder

Pistons push the steel on steel

Steam filled air turns the wheel

The wheel in turn takes the strain

Pounds the beat again and again

(Beat boy...)

Metal on metal

The feeling of steel

Someone is driving

But you've got the wheel

(Someone is driving...)

Pistons push the steel on steel

Steam filled air turns the wheel

The wheel in turn takes the strain

Pounds the beat again and again

(Beat boy...)

Metal on metal

The feeling of steel

Someone is driving

But you've got the wheel

Metal on metal

The feeling of steel

Someone is driving

But you've got the wheel

Angry young men look to the west

Speak for yourself you'll pass the test

Fortune beholds the brave so they say

Questions unanswered the risk they might pay

I listen I can hear

Pounding like thunder

(Beat boy...)

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Track details

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1984

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Release year

1984

—Only the Good (Die Young)
—She's a Machine
—The Promise
—Yesterday's Shadow
—Beat Boy (Dance Mix)
—Beat Boy
—Casualty
—Questions
—Love Glove (Long Version)
—Der Amboss
—Can You Hear Me

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