Tainted Love

[robkelk]

From the "one-hit wonders" bin (and the second episode of the Doctor Who remake), "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell:
Sometimes 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
(chorus)
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
You need someone to hold you tight
And you'll think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way
(chorus...)
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, tainted love
Tainted love, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love
Tainted love

I'm thinking maybe this could be an "escape hatch" song for Doug, or maybe some sort of emotion control song that forces people to fall out of love for the duration.  The first effect duplicates "Thunder Road", but one can never have too many escape hatches...   The second could be of use against emotion controllers of a particularly nasty (and perverted) sort.
-Rob Kelk

[robkelk]

(blows dust off thread)
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I'm thinking maybe this could be an "escape hatch" song for Doug, or maybe some sort of emotion control song that forces people to fall out of love for the duration.  The first effect duplicates "Thunder Road", but one can never have too many escape hatches...   The second could be of use against emotion controllers of a particularly nasty (and perverted) sort.

Now that I know the Soft Cell version is a cover, I realize we can have both effects.

Here's the original, by Gloria Jones:

[Bob Schroeck]

Yup, that'll do it.

And that makes the third version of this song I have in our MP3 collection. I've also got a short cover by Pussycat Dolls. So we can possibly wring out a third effect from those lyrics.