City of Ligh

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High-rise buildings
Low cost apartments
Financial district
Industrial area
Rows of blue collars
Steelworkers' clink-clang
Metal rhythm left and right
This is the city, city of light
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Flicker - Click on
Click off
Click on
The faceless men
The machines of the city
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6 p.m. whistle
Next the inner city
Smiling grimey faces
Tea at the local pub
Low-cut dresses
High-spirited workers
Sizzling neon-lights, click on
This is the city, city of light
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Flicker - Click on
Click off
Click on
The faceless men
The machines of the city
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2 a.m. binge
Low-life slagheap
Used up and burnt out
Like a kick in the teeth
Ramble, shamble on home
Grime back in harness
Metal rhythm left and right
This is the city, city of light
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Flicker - Click on
Click off
Click on
The faceless men
The machines of the cit

Theatre of Tragedy - City of Light

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Look up here, Look down there
I am the new man, I'm tangled in wires
Chipset adept, Memory load...
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Keep your vogue code that all have
Tomorrow's world we've all seen
Keep your modern ways
And keep your bugs
The Metal Man is here to stay
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Talk talk
You say I only work, all night and day
Talk talk
Do say – ‘Use me, I'm cheap to rent’
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Talk talk
You say I only work, all night and day
Talk talk
- Use me, I'm cheap to rent –
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Computerised, Voice synthesised
Call me the mech man
In a world of machines
What can I do but to serve?
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Store the data and calculate
Speak and spell and operate
Engineer the rail and motorway
Automaton of yesterday
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Talk talk
You say I only work, all night and day
Talk talk
Do say – ‘Use me, I'm cheap to rent’
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Talk talk
You say I only work, all night and day
Talk talk
- Use me, I'm cheap to rent –
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Theatre of Tragedy - Machine