Lyrics Hyperactive! - Heavy Breather Subversion - Thomas Dolby

(Stand up, hyperactivate)
(Get up, hyperactivate)
(Wise up, hyperactivate)
(And in a minute I'll blow) (Hyperactivate)
(Get up, hyperactivate)
(Gear up, hyperactivate)
(Sometimes hyperactivate)
(London, hyperactivate)

(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)

At the tender age of three
I was hooked to a machine
Just to keep my mouth from spouting junk, ha!

Must have took me for a fool
'Cause they chucked me out of school
'Cause the teacher knew I had the funk

But tonight I'm on the edge
You better shut me in the fridge
Because 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 my, uh, ripping me apart

Hyperactive when I'm small (Hyperactive when I'm small)
Hyperactive, now I'm grown (Hyperactive, now I'm grown)
Hyperactive and the night is young (Hyperactive and the night is young)
(And in a minute I'll blow)

And they're messing with my heart
(So how long have you been having these delusions?)
Keep on messing with my heart
(Please tell me more about your mother)
Ohh, ripping, ripping, ripping, ripping, ripping me apart

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

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, ow!

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)

Semaphore out on the floor
Messages from outer space
Deep heat for the feet
And the rhythm of your heartbeat

(Stand up, hyperactivate)
(Get up, hyperactivate)
(Wise up, hyperactivate)
(And in a minute I'll blow) (Hyperactivate)
(Get up, hyperactivate)
(Gear up, hyperactivate)
(Sometimes hyperactivate)
(London, hyperactivate)