Yrics The buggles, the age of plastic (1979-80, island records) Songs: Plastic age, video k**ed the radio star kid dynamo, I love you (miss robot) clean-clean, elstree, Astro boy (and the proles on parade), johnny on the monorail Living in the plastic age Every day my metal friend Shakes my bed at 6am Then the shiny serving clones Run in with my telephones Talking fast i make a deal Buy the fake and sell what's real What's this pain here in my chest? Maybe i should take a rest They send the heart police to put you under, Cardiac arrest And as they drag you the door They tell you that you've failed the test Living in the ... Living in the plastic age Looking only half my age Hello doctor lift my face I wish my skin could stand the pace In the bed i read my mind Remember how the mice were blind I watch them fighting in their cage Could this be the plastic age? They send the heart police To put you under cardiac arrest And as they drag you the door They tell you that you've failed the test Living in the Plastic age Plastic age Plastic age They send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest And as they drag you the door They tell you that you've failed the test Living in the plastic age Plastic age Plastic age -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Video k**ed the radio star I heard you on the wireless back in fifty two Lying awake intent at tuning in on you. If i was young it didn't stop you coming through. Oh-a oh They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine and new technology, And now i understand the problems you can see. Oh-a oh I met your children Oh-a oh What did you tell them? Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. Pictures came and broke your heart. Oh-a-a-a oh And now we meet in an abandoned studio. We hear the playback and it seems so long ago. And you remember the jingles used to go. Oh-a oh You were the first one. Oh-a oh You were the last one. Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, We can't rewind we've gone to far Oh-a-aho oh, Oh-a-aho oh Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. In my mind and in my car, We can't rewind we've gone to far. Pictures came and broke your heart, Put the blame on vtr. You are a radio star. You are a radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. Video k**ed the radio star. (you are a radio star.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kid dynamo, Though today you might be riding The engines of progress Working in the major factories Call me if you ever feel like letting go I still remember the days of Kid dynamo, kid dynamo Kid dynamo, kid dynamo Bowowowowowo wa-ah ow Wowowowowowo wa-ah ow Spreading in the subways Of the playback from the train tracks I think your mind was born with water wings And now when i see you All the generation screams I remember the dreams of Kid dynamo, kid dynamo Kid dynamo, kid dynamo Kid dynamo, i remember you Kid dynamo, because i sleep with you Kid dynamo, cause i have been with you Oh let it be said How the media builds stars And our minds will not change Only our cars Kid dynamo, kid dynamo Kid dynamo Kid dynamo Kid dynamo Kid dynamo, i remember you Kid dynamo, because i think of you Kid dynamo, cause i have looked at you Kid dynamo, Kid dynamo, kid dynamo Kid dynamo, kid dynamo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I love you (miss robot) I love you miss robot Electronically I love you miss robot Programmed just to please You make love like a metronome Don't drive to fast when you take me home Touch the seam on your silver skin I feel so hard when you take me in I love you miss robot Electronically?br> i love you miss robot, Programmed just to please Talk of love on the telephone When your voice fades theres a paying tone Force a coin and your there again And my loneliness is paid away I love you miss robot Programmed just to please I love you miss robot Electronically I must leave miss robot, Give yourself to me I love you miss robot Do you love me? I love you miss robot Electronically I love you miss robot Programmed just to please I must leave miss robot Give yourself to me I love you miss robot