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 [Chorus:] 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 [Chorus] 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 [Chorus] Fade
In the year of 2525 If man is still alive If woman can survive They may find
In the year of 3535 Can't tell the truth, can't tell no lie Everything you think, do and say Is in the pill you took today
In the year of 4545 Won't need no teeth, won't need your eyes Won't find a thing to do Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year of 5555 Your arms are hanging limp at your side Your legs have nothing to do Some machines doin' that for you
In the year of 6565 Won't need no husband, won't need no wife You'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too From the bottom of a long glass tube woo
In the year of 7510 If God is comin' he should make it by then Maybe he'll look around and say: "Now it's time for the judgement day!"
In the year of 8510 God is gonna shake his mighty hand He'll leave a salient place where man has been Or tear it down and start again wouwo
In the year of 9595 I'm wondering if man is gonna be alive He's taken everything earth had to give And he's put back nothing woo
Now it's been ten thousand years man has cried a million tears For what he never knew now man's dream is through But through eternal light the twinklin' of starlight So very far away now it's night to yesterday
Name the place, for a rendez-vous Name the time, and I'll get to you Take a train, take a motorway And take a plane, take it any day
And take a drink, as you leave the ground Time to think, hearing headphone sound Close your eyes, you're drifting far away Realise, that you'll be home today
Visa-age I know the place I can't forget I'll go direct
Leave the trash, of your life behind It's time to move, shake those ties that bind Letting go, all that's old and blue You've gotta know, just where you're going to
So take a chance, and take a case in hand We find romance, it's a far off land Close your eyes, you're drifting far away And realise, you could be there today
Visa-age A different time Another place Destinations
I know you from somewhere I know we've met
Visa-age A different town Another place These destinations
So faint in the distance A speck on the map A stamp on my passport No time to look back
Reflections, of the river passing by Reflections, of the place between the sky It's too black, casting shadows On the bridges built so close to that aura
Walking (to the sign) before my eyes Dreaming (it's too late) to realise Stop! You've gone too far this time You're toying with reality
Blocks on blocks are all around Neon lit for silent sound
Figures (in a doorway) in the night Dancing (moving shadows) with the light Talking to a stranger On the bridges built so close to that aura
Standing, on a runway all alone Listening, to an engine heading home Crying, on the inside Wishing I could get away from that aura
Lying, on the runway all alone Listening to an engine heading home Stop! you've gone too far this time You're toying with reality
A puppets motions are controlled by a string By a stranger they've never met Nod of the head at a pull of a thread I just can't say no, can't say no
When a child throws down a toy Dolly for girl, drum for boy When I was new you wanted me Now I'm old you no longer see
The paint on my face is chipped and cracked My clothes seems to be getting old Now you've owned me for a few years Please don't leave me in the cold
You make me glad, you make me sad You lock me away when I'm bad Now you've owned me for a few years Please don't leave me in the cold, in the cold
When a child throws down a toy Spite for girl, hate for boy When a child throws down a toy I look at you with eyes of blue But somehow I can't get through to you
