There's an old ... coming on my new tv
So I go out for a quiet drink
But it costs a packet and it's such a racket
That I can't hear myself think
There's a microchip one armed bandit with a screw loose
A stripper in the corner with a face like thunder
A terrible band playing johnny b goode
So I'd rather go home and stay quietly alone

I get up in the morning with the radio on
I do my makeup and I go to look for work
Somebody tells me that the job's just gone
And I've been replaced by some computer jerk
I would talk to my boyfriend but I never can
'cos a space invader stole my man
There's a dreadful playing johnny b goode
So I'd rather go home and stay quietly alone

Trying to keep my sanity is hard to do
Living like a hermit all alone
Find an occupation that won't deafen me
My sense of reality's gone

My temperature is getting higher and higher
And I'm shaking in my jeans
'cos I get so angry when I'm shut in
With one of those machines
I would talk to my boyfriend but I never can
'cos a space invader stole my man
And the synthesizer's playing johnny b goode
Then I'd rather go home and stay quietly alone
Quietly alone
Quietly alone
Quietly alone
Quietly alone

• All The Tears That I Cried
• Am I Right?
• Annie
• Berlin
• Boys
• Chemistry Tonight
• Clock Goes Round
• Closer to God?
• Clubland
• Dear John
• Don't Run Away from Me Now
• Fabulous Garden
• Falling for Faces
• Good for Me
• Happy
• Hard to Believe
• I Don't Need You
• I'm Going Out With an 80 Year Old Millionaire
• Irish Cousin
• London Girls
• Mexican Sofa
• Moving Story
• One Good Thing
• One Little Lie
• Other People's Hearts
• Over You
• Patrick
• Queen of The High Teas
• Quietly Alone
• Ride
• Roman Gardens
• See That Girl
• Still Life
• Teenager in Love
• Terry
• That's Touch
• The Butcher Boy
• The Face
• The Real Ripper
• Touch Me
• Turn My Motor On
• Until The Night
• You Broke My Heart in 17 Places
• You Caught Me Out