I WANT TO BE A MACHINE - ULTRAVOX COVER

[@Kalighat13]

I found the bones of all your ghosts Locked in the wishing well While bird song gourmets dragged empty nets I slumbered in my shell In mitternacht, die mensch-maschine Kissed me on my eyes I rose and left the fire-ladies Glowing lonely in the night With all the pornographers Burning torches beneath the sea I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I stole a cathode face from newscasts And a crumbling fugue of songs From the reservoir of video souls In the lakes beneath my tongue In flesh of ash and silent movies I walked at boulevards again A nebula of unfinished creatures From the lifetimes of my friends I hope your innocence has depraved me I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine I want to be a machine Broadcast me, scrambled clean Or free me from this flesh Let the armchair cannibals take their fill In every cell across wilderness We'll trip such a strangled tango We'll waltz a wonderland affair Let's run to meet the tide tomorrow Leave all emotion dying there In the star cold beyond all of your dreams Ah!

[@Kalighat13]

great song and cover - so space atmo

[@leroyboothferry]

❤❤❤

[@daevidharvey7113]

Great Song ... a huge favourite since a kid Stared at everything letter on the album cover - a massive album brilliance magic

[@Johnniehaha]

Did you ever get to see them with Foxx?

[@daevidharvey7113]

@@Johnniehaha I never did I started at 16 79/80 many great shows The Concert Hall/Masonic Temple Toronto... The Stranglers Kraftwerk PiL The Cramps Dead Kennedys 999 Ramones Iggy POP ... not $10 but $9.90 haha magic Ultravox did play at The Edge apparently a House/bar with John Foxx just before my time ... lucky to see some great shows that was an awesome venue ... still I did just miss some faves Ian Dury Alex Harvey ... we’d all go back for something someone if we could LoveMusic ... Late 70’s was magic quantity & quality The Best I think& that first Ultravox album was a great one - I thought it very relatable to Hawkwind’s Quark Strangeness and Charm Foxx & Calvert had a similar thing

[@Johnniehaha]

@@daevidharvey7113 My first ever gig in 1978 was SAHB in London, best show I ever saw, bar none.

[@Johnniehaha]

I saw Ultravox supporting Eddie and the Hot Rods in 1977 and again twice, close-up at The Marquee club in London.

[@daevidharvey7113]

@@Johnniehaha wow that is incredible... my all time favourite You’re a lucky dude !! So much of what I like is British Music and Alex was one of kind That Voice I still listen today never gets old Very Cool