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The Machman Lyrics
I saw him turn on,
Like a machine in the park,
Saying please come with me,
But you've been there before.
I saw him whirr away,
Into the night,
Like a nightmare on wheels,
Saying never again.
I'd give it all up for you.
I'd even be a number just for you.
The strangest living boy,
You could ever wish to see...
...`That's me'
Yellowed newspapers,
Tell the story of someone,
`Do you know this man?'
Tomorrow the cure.
Only police ever,
See night time for real.
Turn on the light,
And cry no more, no more.
I was standing outside your door,
Waiting for the grey men to go,
When my mind turned on me,
With a vengeance I had never known...
...My own.
Everyone heard the voice on the radio,
Saying `why move around and waste my time'.
There are no independents any more.
The tape is a circle, but who really cares?
I saw you behind the wall.
I even heard you laugh at me.
You disgust me tonight with your answer to something new...
...That's you.
Like a machine in the park,
Saying please come with me,
But you've been there before.
Into the night,
Like a nightmare on wheels,
Saying never again.
I'd even be a number just for you.
The strangest living boy,
You could ever wish to see...
...`That's me'
Tell the story of someone,
`Do you know this man?'
Tomorrow the cure.
See night time for real.
Turn on the light,
And cry no more, no more.
Waiting for the grey men to go,
When my mind turned on me,
With a vengeance I had never known...
...My own.
Saying `why move around and waste my time'.
There are no independents any more.
The tape is a circle, but who really cares?
I even heard you laugh at me.
You disgust me tonight with your answer to something new...
...That's you.
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"The tape is a circle/But who really cares" is a reference to Mercerism and fusing from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Numan based his own story of Replicas heavily on the book and there are a lot of allusions all over the album to Do Androids Dream.