On Mar 15, 1982, B-Movie re-released the single Nowhere girl / Scare Some Life Into Me.
The song has been described as a tale of alienation. It later appeared re-recorded on the band's first studio album, the Sire Records release Forever Running in 1985. It became a chart-topping single across Europe and received much airplay at the time and was performed on the Spanish TV show Tocata. But 44 years on, it remains the record that defines them — a brooding, piano-driven piece of new wave perfection that managed to soundtrack a generation of disaffected youth.
Nowhere girl, you're living in a dream,
Nowhere girl, you stay behind the scenes,
Nowhere girl, you never go outside,
Nowhere girl, cause you prefer to hide.
Every day, every night
In that all old familiar light
You hold up when I call you at home.
And I try to get angry
And I try to talk to you
But there's something stopping me from getting through.
Nowhere girl, what you had you need,
Nowhere girl, all functional and neat,
Nowhere girl, in self-imposed exile,
Nowhere girl, a martyr-like denial.
Every day, every night
In that all old familiar light
You hold up when I call you at home.
And I try to get angry
And I try to talk to you
But there's something stopping me from getting through.
Every day, every night
In that all old familiar light
You hold up when I call you at home.
And I try to get angry
And I try to talk to you
But there's something stopping me from getting through.