[Intro]
All the boys are wearing their utility drag
The girls slip identikits from their utility bags

[Verse 1]
Some refugees from suburbia are laughing
Examining each other's gags
Vibrate on sulphate when it gets late
And their velocity begins to sag

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

[Verse 2]
Mary Mary got so confused
About the fusion game, what a game
Blunked on booze, she talks like a newsreel
She'll take up any kind of bleak exchange

[Verse 3]
She turned to perfection once
But realised she'd only turned to pain
She ran through divine light, chemicals, Warhol, Scientology
Her own sex, before she turned away
[Chorus]
And it goes on all night, all night
And it goes on and on, the artificial life

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

[Verse 4]
I should have left here years ago
But my imagination won't tell me how
This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant getting drowned

[Verse 5]
So we drink and sink and talk and stalk
With interchangeable enemies and friends
Trying on each other's skins
While we're dying to be born again

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