I come bearing gifts from the 1980′s, Dear Enemy and Computer One, this song came out in 1983, one year after I had bought my very first computer, an original grey case Tandy TRS-80 with 16k of RAM. I loved that computer so much, I pretty much spent all my money on games for this beastie, and boy were they expensive for the time. My computer saved my sanity so many times during a rather tumultuous period of my live, and saved my life literally on more than one occasion.
This song made it to only number 5 on the Countdown chart, I thought it deserved to go much higher. Dear Enemy were a highly regarded band on the indie circuit and this sadly was their only charting song. Pity.
Computer One
Computer One I’d like to ask a question please
Exactly where does love go wrong
I thought she knew how much she meant to me
I turned around to see and she was gone
So tell me Computer One
Why did she run
Where has she gone
Computer One
Computer One, if you know all you say you do
Why isn’t the answer on the screen
Do you sleep at night when the cold whips through
Or do you like awake at night like me
So tell me Computer One
Why did she run
Where has she gone
Computer One
Computer One, you are the one I’ve been talking to
And maybe that’s where I went wrong
All the secrets that I told to you
I should have told to her all along
So tell me Computer One
Why did she run
Where has she gone
Computer One
( I transcribed the lyrics from listening to the video clip, so excuse any errors)
August 2nd, 2011 at 8:35 pm
awesome song! thanks for posting the lyrics…
though i think that
“Do you sleep at night when the cold whips through”
should be
“Do you sleep at night when the program’s through”
^_^
August 2nd, 2011 at 10:54 pm
Ooh, you could be right, I couldn’t find any lyrics on the web at all, so I did it by ear, i’ll have another listen and see.