Soft Cell

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

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

Sometimes I feel I've got to. . . run away,
I've got to. . . get away
From the pain you drive into the heart of me.
The love we share seems to go nowhere,
And I've lost my life,
For I toss and turn; I can't sleep at night.

Once I ran to you, now I run from you.
This tainted love you've given,
I gave you all a boy could give you.
Take my tears and that's not really all. . .
Tainted love, ohh, tainted love

Now I know I've got to. . . run away,
I've got to. . . get away.
You don't really want any more from me.
To make things right you need someone to hold you tight,
And you think love is to pray,
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way.

Don't touch me please, I cannot stand the way you tease.
I love you though you hurt me so.
Now I'm gonna pack my things and go.

Ohh, tainted love

Touch me baby, tainted love

Everywhere I go
I take a little piece of you

I collect, I reject
Photographs I took of you
Towns that I passed through
I쨈ve got to have a memory

Or I have never been there
I have never had you, had you, had you
I can쨈t remember
Give me a reminder

I collect, I reject
Memorabilia
Memorabilia

I like little bits of glassware
Ashtrays with inscriptions
Plastic things on pencils
Bits of mass production

Postcards, pretty pictures
Little bits of plastic
Covering up the bedroom
To show you I쨈ve been there
To show you I쨈ve been there

Keychains and snowstorms
Keychains and snowstorms
Give me a reminder
Give me a reminder

Memorabilia, memorabilia
Keychains and snowstorms
Memorabilia, memorabilia
I can쨈t remember
Give me a reminder

I collect, I reject
Photographs I took of you
Towns that I passed through
I쨈ve got to have a memory

Or I have never been there
I have never had you, had you, had you
I can쨈t remember
Give me a reminder
I collect, I reject

Memorabilia
Memorabilia

Castanets, mantillas
Torremolinos
Castanets and plastic men
Memorabilia
Memorabilia

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

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

Bedsitter
Bedsitter

And I don't care
I don't care

Bedsitter
Bedsitter

(Repeat and fade...)

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

GOODBYE

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

12

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

I'm lost again and I'm on the run
Looking for love in a sad song.
With your avenger eyes and your catlike ways
I can hold you.
You are 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.
He's searching
she's showing

See him heZd 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 light and shout
Hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me.
I hear the saxophone and it tears my soul
And we'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.
He's searching
she's showing
. . .

Atmospheres are tense today
Mother and father are rowing again
Silently seated around the table
You're the one that's getting the blame
Father looks at you like a snake
You play with the food upon your plate
No one seems to be on your side
Things that threaten to hurt your pride

Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand

Smiling you did your time at school
Crying quietly like a fool
Saturday night and Sunday morning
Did all the things they asked you to do
They say that home is where the heart is
But home is only where the hurt is
Pull the wool over the eyes
Forget the worries that you started

Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand

When you stayed out every night
The first time from your parent's sight
They started to show some concern
But by then it was too late
Feel it's time to pull away
Shut your ears to all they say
Be yourself you know it's true
When in the end what's left is you

Mother loves to be concerned
Using lessons that she learnt
Fathers never understand
When children have the upper hand

Rain keeps on falling
Sun refuse to shine
Baby quit your stalling
And say that you are mine
Chorus:
'Cause I've got so many troubles
Oh I feel like I could cry
Going down in the subway
Jump on those train tracks and die
Down in the subway
I hide these tears of mine
Down in the subway
I'm gonna cry cry cry 'til the end of the line
Cold hearted baby
You're too mean to smile
Every day is stormy
Oh you're one evil child
Chorus
Red blooded baby
Your too tough for me
I don't mean maybe
Oh why don't you let me be
Chorus
Jump on those train tracks and die
Jump on those train tracks and die
Go down in the subway
Jump on those train tracks and die
Jump on those train tracks and die
I'm all run over

The wind in my hair

And the black in my eyes

I was holding back tears

As I reeled with surprise

There was no one to phone

I just chewed at the time

I was waving goodbye

To control of my mind



And the beat of my heart



Marks the passing of time
And I just wanna scream to the sky
There are times when my mind is an explosion of feelings

I'm trying to hold on to the soul inside



I go looking for lies
But I couldn't find the way out

In your play-the-game eyes


The where's or the why's

Should I laugh


Should I cry
Should I live

Should I die?


It's a wild celebration of feelings inside


And the beat of my heart

Marks the passing of time



And I just wanna scream to the sky

And there are times when my mind is an explosion of feelings
I'm trying to hold on to the soul inside (x3)



(I've got to hold on to the soul inside)




Inside...

It's a wild celebration

(It's a wild)

It a wild celebration of feelings inside

And it's tearing me...

And it's tearing me up

It's a wild...
It's a wild celebration of feelings inside




It's a wild... it's a wild...

Celebration of feelings inside



And I'm trying to hold on

And I'm trying to hold on

And I'm trying
Hold on....


Feelings.... inside....

Rain keeps on falling
Sun refuse to shine
Baby quit your stalling
And say that you are mine
Chorus:
'Cause I've got so many troubles
Oh I feel like I could cry
Going down in the subway
Jump on those train tracks and die
Down in the subway
I hide these tears of mine
Down in the subway
I'm gonna cry cry cry 'til the end of the line
Cold hearted baby
You're too mean to smile
Every day is stormy
Oh you're one evil child
Chorus
Red blooded baby
Your too tough for me
I don't mean maybe
Oh why don't you let me be
Chorus
Jump on those train tracks and die
Jump on those train tracks and die
Go down in the subway
Jump on those train tracks and die
Jump on those train tracks and die
I'm all run over

Sometimes I feel I've got to run away
I've got to get away
From the pain 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 run from you
This tainted love you've given
I gave you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh, tainted love....

Now I know I've got to run away
I've got to get away
You don't really want any more from me
To make things right, you need someone to hold you tight
And you think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way

Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I gave you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Oh, tainted love, 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 gonna pack my things and go (things and go....)

Tainted love (tainted love...)
Run away (run away....)
I need someone (I need someone....)

Tainted love, tainted love
Tainted love, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Tainted love, tainted love
Tainted love, tainted love

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

Bedsitter
Bedsitter

And I don't care
I don't care

Bedsitter
Bedsitter

(Repeat and fade...)

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

12

I'm lost again and I'm on the run
Looking for love in a sad song.
With your avenger eyes and your catlike ways
I can hold you.
You are 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.
He's searching
she's showing

See him heZd 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 light and shout
Hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me.
I hear the saxophone and it tears my soul
And we'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.
He's searching
she's showing
. . .