Lyrics

[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