1979
And m.e. I eat dustWe're all so run downI'd call it my deathBut I'll only fade awayAnd I hate to fade aloneNow there's only m.e.
We were so sureWe were so wrongBut there's no one left to seeAnd there's no one left to dieThere's only m.e.
Why shoud I careWhy should I tryOh no, oh noI turned off the painLike I turned off you allNow there's only m.e.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeucohIa5LQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4EMmvP8rWo
Down in the parkWhere the mach-men meet the machinesAnd play 'kill-by-numbers'Down in the park with a friend called fiveI was in a car crashOr was it the warBut I've never been quite the sameLittle white lies like I was thereCome to "Zom-Zom's", a place to eatLike it was built in one dayYou can watch the humansTrying to runOh look there's a rape machineI'd go outside if he'd look the other wayYou wouldn't believeThe things they doDown in the parkWhere the chant is "death, death, death"Until the sun cries morningDown in the park with friends of mineWe are not loversWe are not romanticsWe are here to serve youA different face but the words never change
Gary Numan - This is a great example of his music, which is of a truly original variety (although songs tend to blend one into the other). He gives us that lonely British teenage neuro-developmental disordered thinking conditioned on themes of science fiction, machine, and the future. This is a place we all deserve to come back to once in a while, and of course while Cars is the whiplash jam that you can sometimes still get on the radio in the supermarket or something, I think M.E. is unbelievable. Writing is not dansing, but since we can't danse together, all I can do is trip out in turn of phrase, that this guy slammed such synthetic music about, but what makes this track so special is the live drumming from Cedric Sharpley.
It's almost as though his intense lyrics about a synthetic apocalyptic - droid world compensated for any possible overuse of synthesizers...-which in electropop could verge on the irritating - because his music retains such a pure rock element, realistic drum breaks and a healthy low end which makes the highs so spacious and strong. I'm not going to dive deep into Gary, or his band Tubeway Army - and I never needed to. Straight reverence, for a rocker who championed the frontiers of dark dance.
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