세 번째 앨범, This Last Night in Sodom이 84년에 발표된 이후로, 솔로 커리어를 구축해 오던 Marc Almond와 Dave Ball이18년 만에 다시 뭉쳐 막강 파워를 과시한다. Almond의 뛰어난 작사실력에 Ball의 분위기 있고 풍부한 편곡 실력이 더해져, 성숙하면서도 업데이트된 Soft Cell의 진가를 보여주는 이 앨범에서, Almond는 강하고 감성적인 목소리를 통해 생생한 이야기를 전하며, Ball은 음악을 믿을 수 없을 정도로 멋지게 꾸며낸다. AMG 4/5
Why don't I just give up And do myself a favour? My life is slowly turning grey And losing all its flavour Everything the same Again and again and again Everything the same Again and again and again
Over and over and over Again and again and again Monoculture Over and over and over Again and again and again Monoculture No change The world has gone insane Everything that's old Is new again
Monoculture Monoculture Monoculture
Why don't I just give up And submit to the great God of Bland All my exotic gestures No longer in demand Everything the same Again and again and again Everything the same Again and again and again
Over and over and over Again and again and again Monoculture Over and over and over Again and again and again Monoculture Monoculture It's the same Monoculture Monoculture Mediocre Monoculture Monoculture Mediocre
Over and over and over Again and again and again Monoculture Over and over and over Again and again and again Monoculture
No change The world has gone insane Everything that's old Is new again
Monoculture Mediocre The same Ordinary Boring Mediocre The same Ordinary Boring Monoculture
Would you like to taste a little pain From the fickle hand of fame Aren't you happy that the road to success Is littered with drugs and sex It's all here for your delectation In compromising situations Let fallen heroes entertain you Take a look Nobody's gonna blame you
Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, to the broken people The broken people
Snake dancers, sex changer Come inside It gets stranger and stranger Got a lot of unpleasant surprises Cruelty comes in all shapes and sizes
Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, to the broken people The broken people Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, to the broken people The broken people
It's Grand Guignol It's rock 'n' roll It's vaudeville and burlesque All of human life is here In the theatre of the grotesque
The city has turned upside down The circus lion is eating the clown We're all delivered to the poison pens And sacrificed to the pig with the lens
Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, to the broken people The broken people Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, le Grand Guignol Say hello, to the broken people The broken people
It's Grand Guignol It's rock 'n' roll It's vaudeville and burlesque All of human life is here In the theatre of the grotesque
It was the heat of the night I think Or it could've been the effect of the drink But I had to brush away the flies That started to collect around your eyes
I've still the taste of the sweat and the dust You're still playing games and abusing my trust In the heat of the night In the glow of the light
It's the back and the bite That's feeling alright Do you use up bodies like cigarettes Do you need them for ego
Do you need them for sex It was a bite of a night gone wrong And the effect of listening to negative songs Stuck in a love scene from blood and sand
And the way the room keeps spinning around I steal the taste of the sweat and the dust (Now I know what they mean by looks can kill) You're still playing games and abusing my trust
(And they're having a strange effect on the way I feel) In the heat of the night In the glow of the light It's the back and the bite
That's feeling alright Do you use up bodies like cigarettes Do you need them for ego Do you need them for sex
And you're moaning about your wasted life Lying there listening to "Spanish Eyes" With the cups on the floor And the plates in the sink
And the room full of smoke And then you full of drink You skin's going dry And the color of sand
I want to see you crawl As I drive by in my big black car With police outriders And a hundred guards Looking drop dead gorgeous Dressed up to the nines In the skins of several species In decline As I set fire to your houses And your cars I'll be dancing like a dervish In the sparks
Is this what true power feels like? Racing round my veins Like a motorbike It's the fall of Rome My Caligula syndrome It's the fall of Rome My Caligula syndrome
I'll display you in my game show On TV Called 'Humiliation And Hypocrisy' Throw an orgy for the dissolute And the damned Every kind of deviation On demand So worship me And fall down on your knees Or I'll unleash another Chemical disease
Is this what true power feels like? Racing round my veins Like a motorbike It's the fall of Rome My Caligula syndrome It's the fall of Rome My Caligula syndrome
Have I become just a little deranged? While you're crawling on your hands and knees Like slaves Am I still desirable? You're ever so destructible Do you think this party's ever going to end? Dance with me While our city is burning Won't you dance with me While our empire is falling Like Nero let's make music to the Fires of Rome
In a city lost in time Somewhere sordid and sublime We met over a gin and lime One rainy evening Survivors clinging to the mast Trying to make the moment last just Two people way past their prime And how it shows
So come over here For some romance And dance with me Like it's the last dance And come home with me Won't you come home with me This is our last chance for love
You thought you looked like Carol White Bleached hair piled upon your head but You looked more like a lady of the night Instead In your see-through plastic mac Homage to cheap sixties tack you're So far out You're on your way back in Again
I've wasted too many chances On small ads and Internet romances So come home with me Won't you come home with me This is our last chance for love
I toyed with a cigarette Trying to look aloof and sexy But I couldn't see for the smoke In my eyes OK, I have a shaky limp and Dress a little like a pimp but After your drink I'll still look OK In a good light
I had some dreams where did they all go Gone with my years Nothing left to show So come home with me Won't you come home with me This is our last chance for love Come home with me Won't you come home with me This is our last chance For romance Our last chance
Come home with me Won't you come home with me This is our last chance for love This is our last chance This is our last chance for love
Searching through the memory books Of photographs your lovers took Why play the game of place the pain When you end up feeling just the same Anyway
Sleep comes so slowly now So hard to keep the eyelids down And you're hoping soon to drown the sound Of a voice you know that whispers in Your mind
Oh, it was a sad, sad day The day you turned away And there was nothing in your eye You had told me once you found it impossible To cry
I know you've been there and back I've been there too But it was never really deep in you To do those things you had to do
And in your sleepy bedroom eyes I saw the signs And I lay awake all night In the cold Until the light burned my side And there was nothing There was nothing anymore
And there was nothing Not a feeling As you glanced back from the door
Move away to find another place That illustrates your point of view Surrounded by the little things That re-assure That reflect you
Ooooo and there was nothing And there was nothing in my heart And there was nothing in my head The light in your eyes is changing all the time And I still have your smile Burned into my mind
Youth has gone I heard you say It doesn't matter Anyway Don't hide the photos Or turn off the lights I'm quite sure we've both seen Funnier sights
Youth Sleep in a deep deep deep Beauty is skin deep
Youth has gone Though we're still young It's hard I know to believe That I was somebody's son The memories Of what you once were The memories of what We both were
Youth has gone Though don't think I don't cry We let ourselves slip And now I ask myself why I'm on my own And don't think I really mind When after all The years have been fairly kind
Youth Sleep in a deep deep deep Beauty is skin deep Sleep in a deep deep deep Beauty is skin deep
We've hit those depths again Playing black games again Black mellow lies And the narrowing of eyes Playing those games again You hold the reins again But then I turned the card And you know I hit hard
Loving you, hating me It's the other side of love It's the side that you don't want to see
Shaking your head that way It's so true when they say That love is a pain in the heart A pain that pulls apart I'm breaking rules again You're breaking hearts again Pretend to despise When there's love in your eyes
Loving you, hating me It's the other side of love It's the side that you don't want to see
And I'm loving you And you're hating me It's the other side of love It's the other side of love
Always the dreamer But never the dead You had a rocky road mapped out somewhere in your head Anyone in your way Was a spike in your side With one hand in the wallet You took them for the ride
Your could look in their eyes You perfected a lie Never gave them the chance to question why If they hit on you Then you slammed them right back To hell with the cool It was up and attack
You should have seen you when you were 18 You were the toughest little f... I've ever seen And with each downfall you turned 10 foot tall The biggest kick in the balls you've ever been
And Dr Diablo's on his rounds again Looking for blame And you know that he'll diagnose pain again Yeah pain again
Narrow the sorrow Sick of the slick Of the doors of discovery you had you pick If they hit on you Then you hit right back Never keeping their cool It was up and attack
Your could look in their eyes You perfected a lie Never gave them the chance to question why If they hit on you Then you slammed them right back To hell with the cool It was up and attack
Whoa you're feeling so torrid today Life has gone wild No one blocks out the way You even look good - so they say A new lease of life flowed through your body today (not that looks are all to go by - but anyway)
Shooting the A, Shooting the A, Shooting the A
The stuff is free And you can now go to town Building your life up and smashing it down Building your life up and smashing it down
You couldn't escape from this fact of life That existing makes you a mess But every decision or feeling or reason Causes some sort of mental distress Your could look in their eyes You perfected a lie Never gave them the chance to question why If they hit on you Then you slammed them right back To hell with the cool It was up and attack
Leave the cool for the fool Leave the cool for the fool Leave the cool for the fool Leave the cool for the fool Hey hey
You couldn't escape from this fact of life That existing makes you a mess But every decision or feeling or reason Causes some sort of mental distress Your could look in their eyes You perfected a lie Never gave them the chance to question why If they hit on you Then you slammed them right back To hell with the cool It was up and attack
Hey Building your life up (shooting the A, shooting the A) And smashing it down Building your life up (shooting the A, shooting the A) And smashing it down Building your life up (shooting the A, shooting the A) And smashing it down
Another day melts into the evening I sit alone and watch the stars Remembering times I think of the past
Here in my isolation In the solitary situation Reality hurts Where memories last
When you whisper my name in the silence You stop my heart with a touch of violence We'll always be Together alone
You're a breath in my ear You're a word in my mind I'm here on my own Just two of a kind Together alone Together alone
You share in my deepest secrets You're here in my darkest moment Together alone Together alone
You know what I'm always thinking You lift my mood when I'm sinking Together alone Together alone
When you're here in my arms I'm dreaming of you Life will end when I stop Believing in you Together alone Together alone
You're like a shadow At the edge of my eye Like a chill in the air Like a light in the sky Like the endless peace after we die
You're a breath in my ear You're a word in my mind I'm here on my own Just two of a kind Together alone Together alone
I don't need anybody I don't want anybody I'm on my own Together alone
Nobody can understand us Nobody to make demands on us Together alone Together alone
And as the bombs are falling I hear a voice that's calling Together alone Together alone
You're a breath in my ear You're a word in my mind I'm here on my own Just two of a kind Together alone Together alone
Are you listening to me now? Are you listening to me now? Together alone Together alone
You're deep in my heart now You're deep in my soul now Together alone Forever alone
You're a breath in my ear You're a word in my mind I'm here on my own Just two of a kind Together alone Together alone Together alone Forever alone Are you listening to me now? Are you listening to me now? Together alone Forever alone Together alone Together alone Are you listening to me now? Are you listening to me now?
Baby doll is on her trapeze Wearing the smile that she never sees Thinking of a dollar as she tries to tease Thinking of a dollar as she tries to tease She's thinking of a dollar as she tries to tease
Baby doll, baby doll Baby doll, baby doll
Time to play Sheba on a wooden stage Taking off the clothes that are grimy with age Rubbing down the skin that is white and cold And the sticking plasters that cover up the holes
She stared at by a man that would do her harm She needs to earn the money that will feed his arm He promised you security, safe and warm He promised you security, safe and warm
They'll never know the hurt that you feel inside The emptiness you try to hide They'll never know the hurt that you feel inside The emptiness you try to hide
Baby doll
I would melt your eyes that are glassy and cold And as for the future when you grow old Baby doll, baby doll They'll never know the hurt you feel inside The emptiness you try to hide
Take a tiny costume from a pile of clothes Just a touch of glitter and a lot of gold Pick on a failure, make his knees go weak Mouth open, eyes wide, fake your peak Mouth open, eyes wide, fake your peak Mouth open, eyes wide Mouth open, eyes wide
Baby doll
He'll wipe a line of dribble running from his mouth You make your wages later when you're back at his house You try to hide the mirror 'cause it's never kind You kickstart the heart that's so hard to find You try to save your beauty and to draw the line
You bite your lip when you find it [Incomprehensible] Continue your search for a genuine love Continue your search for a genuine love Continue your search for a genuine love
Beware Of his promise Believe What I say Before I go forever Be sure Of what you say
So he paints a pretty picture And he tells you that he needs you And he covers you with flowers And he always keeps you dreaming If he always keeps you dreaming You won't have a lonely hour If a day could last forever You might like your ivory tower
But the night begins to turn your head around And you know you're gonna lose more than you found Yeah the night begins to turn your head around
Beware Of his promise Believe What I say Before I go forever Be sure Of what you say
For the words may come too easy If you don't believe I'm leaving And goodbye will come too quickly If you really think he loves you If you really think he loves you You would give your love so sweetly If that day could last forever You would fall in love completely
But the night begins to turn your head around And you know you're gonna lose more than you found Yeah the night begins to turn your head around
But the night begins to turn your head around And you know you're gonna lose more than you found Yeah the night begins to turn your head around And you know you're gonna lose more than you found Oh the night begins to turn your head around Yeah, the night, the night, the night, the night, the night, the night Yeah, the night, the night, the night, the night, the night, the night Oh the night begins to turn your head around
I'm lost again And I'm on the run Looking for love In a sad song With your avenger eyes And your cat like ways I can hold you You're a fool for me to be cruel I'm leaning on this bar Listening to you sing And your sad song Rings in my ears And I start to cry
Chorus 1 He's searching She's showing See him held in a deep deep spell He knows she's glowing I can find within my mind A way to go I can look deep into your life and shout Hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me...
I hear the saxophone And it tears my soul And they're feeling old Feeling so cold She is the torch And she is the theme She could be a dream But oh boy, is she real? Try to avoid her eyes To avoid her words They will hit you With all that you feel
Chorus 1
Chorus 2 See her eyes they are bright tonight See the stars coming out tonight See the moon looking down tonight See how they light your way tonight See my eyes they are bright tonight See my hands reaching out tonight Hear my words they are dynamite See how they light your way tonight
Sunday morning going slow I'm talking to the radio Clothes and record on the floor Memories of the night before Out in clubland having fun And now I'm hiding from the sun Waiting for a visitor Though no-one knows I'm here for sure
Chorus: Dancing laughing Drinking loving And now I'm all alone In bedsit land My only home
I think it's time to cook a meal To fill the emptiness I feel Spent my money going out I've nothing I'm left without Clean my teeth and comb my hair Look for something new to wear Start the nightlife over again Kid myself I'm having fun
Chorus
I look out from my window view There's really nothing else to do Read a book maybe write a letter Mother, things are getting better Watch the mirror count the lines The battle scars of all the good times Look around and I can see A thousand people just like me
Chorus
I'm waiting for something I'm only passing time
[For purchasers of the 7" version, the song stops here. For purchasers of the 12" version, there are the additional lines:]
Do you look a mess? Do you have a hangover? Did you overdo the lemonade Cut short on the soda? Did you do that dance the doctor Told you that you shouldn't do? But you're only young You should do that dance twice over I knew it's pretty early But you still look great Just ready for the beauty That the make up will create Take a little blusher Take a little paint Put on the silver dress The one that makes the young boys faint I'm sitting on my bed And I'm looking at the time Have a cup of coffee And you're feeling fine Put on that new record That you bought the other day The words will make you smile You can dance the dust away Make your single bed And push the tea leaves down the drain Take a long deep breath And start the nightlife over again
I'm waiting for someone I'm only passing time And now I'm all alone And I don't care And I don't care
somtimes I feel I`ve got to Run away I`ve got to get away from the pain that you drive into the heart of me the love we share seems to go nowhere and I`ve lost my light for I toss and turn I can`t sleep at night once I ran to you(I ran) now I`ll run from you this tainted love you`ve given I give you all a boy could give you take my tears and that`s not nearly all oh tainted love tainted love now I know I`ve got to run away i`ve got to get away You don`t really want it any more from me to make things right youneed someone to hold you tight and you`ll think love is to pray But I`m sorry i don`t pray that way once I ran to you (I ran) now I`ll run from you this tainted love you`ve given I give you all a boy could give you take my tears and that`s not nearly all tainted love don`t touch me please I cannot stand the way you tease I love you though you hurt me so now I`m going to pack my things and go tainted love touch me baby, tainted love tainted love instrumental till end
Baby, baby, baby don't leave me. Ooh, please don't leave me all by myself. I've got this burning, burning, yearning feelin' inside me. Ooh, deep inside me and it hurts so bad.
You came into my heart (baby, baby) so tenderly, With a burning love (baby, baby) That stings like a bee (baby, baby). Now that I surrender (baby, baby) so helplessly, You now want to leave (baby, baby). Ooh, you wanna leave me (baby, baby). Ooh (baby, baby).
Baby, baby, where did our love go? Ooh, don't you want me? Don't you want me no more (baby, baby)? Ooh, baby.
Baby, baby, where did our love go? And all your promises of a love forevermore! I've got this burning, burning, yearning feelin' inside me. Ooh, deep inside me, and it hurts so bad.
Before you won my heart (baby, baby) You were a perfect guy. But now that you got me, You wanna leave me behind (baby, baby). Ooh, baby.
Baby, baby, baby don't leave me. Ooh, please don't leave me all by myself (baby, baby). Ooh.
Martin is a boy with problems Martin has a family history Martin has too many nightmares He lives in a fantasy There's a danger that he'll take too far His morbid curiosity
He's seen too many creepy films He's read too many books Martin sleeps with all the lights on Martin's seen too many looks He lives out a strange obsession Tries hard to resist But Martin needs his strange obsession To exist
(Kill, kill, kill)
He's far too pale and far too frail To be a normal boy There's something shining in his eyes The things he'd like to say Martin had a lot to live down Growing up in a mining town Torches burning in the trees
The shivering lust of blood He's the star of many horror movies But deep inside he's good
There's an illness flowing through him That's there all the time And though he watches and he waits He knows he's not to blame The face at the window The hand under the bed Martin has hallucinations Dreams that he's dead He finds the hunger's at its worst When he's in bed
(Kill, kill, kill)
He's finding hard to keep control He knows it won't be long And his tongue rolls over his dry lips And the voice lingers on
It was the morning after the month before And I'm looking like a nose with eyes Take a trip or letter to make me feel better 'Cause I know my mirror never lies Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can(?) And the hand that holds the whip is not your own Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old Is it me, this feeling insecure?
Hiding in the darkness where they can't see your eyes In a naked city cinema Watch the bodies rolling around on the screen And nobody gives a damn who you are You're surrounded by the bitter and the boring And you wonder if you're on the turn And again you get hurt when they're dishing the dirt Is it me, this feeling insecure?
I haven't got time to worry 'bout the future Well I'm busy covering up my past Start to consider a tuck(?) behind my ears Well I wonder if my looks will last I could hit the bottle and the depths of despair But come up fighting like the best And I can tell myself that I'm winning the war But then again I'm different than the rest
I'm not the hardest person in the world But like the song says 'I will survive' And I may be a wreck and a pain in the neck But at least I feel that I'm alive So I'll spit in your face and put you over the place If I'm ever feeling so unsure And you can really go to hell if you give me the soft cell It's not me, this feeling insecure
It was the morning after the month before And I'm looking like a nose with eyes Take a trip or letter to make me feel better 'Cause I know my mirror never lies Have you ever had the feeling that your life's down the can(?) And the hand that holds the whip is not your own Your breakfast's going cold and your routine's getting old Is it me, this feeling insecure?
[Rap by Cindy Ecstacy - 12" only:]
Forget the lows, just live the highs And wipe the make up from my eyes Forget the faces that I despise As I know my mirror never lies I come up fighting like the best But then I'm better than the rest And I wonder how my looks will last Because my love is really fast And you wonder if you're on the turn Oh baby won't you ever learn That I'm a cut above the rest Don't worry 'bout the way I'm dressed And if my make up looks a mess I'm not about to get depressed 'Cause I'm the one that loves to lose Just a loser in my fucking(?) shoes And I've got the touch and I've got the feel To make a good time really real I'll just spit right in your face And push you all around the face Just love to love, just love to live Just love to live, just love to love And baby are you so so sure That you're the one that's insecure?
Standing in the door of the Pink Flamingo Crying in the rain It was a kind of so so love And I'm going to make sure it never Happens again You and I It had to be The standing joke of the year You were a sleep around A lost and found And not for me I fear
I tried to make it work You in a cocktail skirt And me in a suit (Well it just wasn't me) You're used to wearing less And now you're life's a mess So insecure you see I put up with all the scenes And this is one scene That's going to be played my way
Chorus: Take your hands off me I don't belong to you, you see Take a look at my face For the last time I never knew you You never knew me Say hello Goodbye Say hello wave goodbye
Under the deep red light I can see the makeup sliding down Hey little girl you will always make up So take off that unbecoming frown What about me- well I'll find someone That's not going cheap in the sales A nice little housewife Who'll give me a steady life And won't keep going off the rails
Chorus
We've been involved For quite a while now And to keep you secret has been hell We're strangers meeting for the first time O.K.? Just smile and say hello Say hello then wave goodbye
Isn't it nice Sugar and spice Luring disco dollies To a life of vice I could make a film And make you my star You'd be a natural The way you are I would like you on A long black leash I would parade you Down the high street You've got the attraction You've got the pulling power Walk my little doggy Walk my little sex dwarf We could make a scene We'd be a team Making the headlines Sounds like a dream When we hit the floor You just watch them move aside We will take them For a ride of rides They all love your Miniature ways You know what they say About small boys
I'm in my Rolls Royce Look it's so huge It's big and it's gold With my dumb chauffeur Looking to procure Run little doggy Lure a disco dolly Run my little sex dwarf I feel so lonely Get my little camera Take a pretty picture Sex dwarf In a gold Rolls Making it with the dumb chauffeur
Isn't it nice Sugar and spice Luring disco dollies To a life of vice Sex dwarf Isn't it nice Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
We could make an outfit For my little sex dwarf To match the gold Rolls And my dumb chauffeur We'll all look so good We'll knock 'em cold Knocking 'em cold In black and gold
We can have playtime In my little playroom Disco dollies My sex dwarf And my dumb chauffeur I would like you on a long black lead You can bring me all the things I need
Sex dwarf Isn't it nice Luring disco dollies to a life of vice Isn't it nice Sugar and spice Luring disco dollies to a life of vice