Lyrics Hyperactive! (2009 - Remaster) - Thomas Dolby

[[spoken: ]] Hmm... tell me about your childhood...

At the tender age of three
I was hooked to a machine
Just to keep my mouth from spouting junk
Must have took me for a fool
When they chucked me out of school
'Cause the teacher knew I had the funk
But tonight I'm on the edge -
Fellas, shut me in the fridge
'Cause I'm burning up [(I'm burning up)]
With the vision in my brain
And the music in my veins
And the dirty rhythm in my blood

They are messing with my heart
And they're messing with my heart
And they're messing with my heart
Won't stop messing with me
Ripping me apart!

Hyperactive: when I'm small
Hyperactive: now I'm grown
Hyperactive: and the night is young

And in a minute I'll blow!

Hyperactive: when I'm small
Hyperactive: now I'm grown
Hyperactive: and the night is young

Semaphore out on the floor
Messages from outer space
Deep heat for the feet
The rhythm of your heartbeat
'Cause the music of the street
It isn't any rapattack
It isn't any rapattack

I can reach into your homes
Like an itch in your headphones
You can't turn it up
I'm the shape in your back room
I'm the breather on the phone
And I'm burning up
But there's one thing I must say
Before they lock me up again -
You'd be safer at the back
When I'm having an attack!

Hyperactive: when I'm small
Hyperactive: now I'm tall
Hyperactive: as the day is long
Hyperactive: in my bones
Hyperactive: in your phones
Hyperactive: and the night is young
Hyperactive: when I'm small
Hyperactive: now I'm grown
Hyperactive: 'til I'm dead and gone

Stand up: hyperactivate!
Get up: hyperactivate!
Wise up: hyperactivate!
London: hyperactivate!