Artificial Life Lyrics - Singles - Ultravox

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 realized 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)