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[Verse 1]
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    All the boys are wearing their
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utility drag.
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    The girls slip identikits from their
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utility bags.
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   Some refugees from suburbia are laughing,
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     examining each other's gags,
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   vibrate on sulphate when it gets late
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    and their velocity begins to sag.

[Chorus]
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     And it goes on all night, all night.
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    And it goes on and on, the artificial life.

[Verse 2]
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   Mary Mary got so confused
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   about the fusion game.    What a game !
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   Blunked on booze, she talks like a newsreel.
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   She'll take up any kind of bleak exchange.
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   She turned to perfection once but
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realised she'd only turned to pain.
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She ran through divine light, chemicals, Warhol, scientology,
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her own sex before she turned away

[Chorus]
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     And it goes on all night, all night.
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    And it goes on and on, the artificial life.

[Bridge]
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   I've learned to be a stranger
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   I've learned to be a stranger
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   I've learned to be a stranger
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   I've learned to be a stranger
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   Stranger still

[Solo 1]
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[Verse 3]
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   I should have left here years ago
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   but my imagination won't tell me how.
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   This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture.
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   It's so pleasant getting drowned.
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So we     drink and sink and talk and stalk
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with interchangeable enemies and friends,
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   trying on each other's skins
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while we're     dying to be born again.

[Chorus]
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     And it goes on all night, all night.
E                F             G           A
    And it goes on and on, the artificial life.

[Solo 2]
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