The Golden Age Of Grotesque

Marilyn Manson The Golden Age Of Grotesque Lyrics
1.Intro


2.This Is The New Shit

Everything has been said before
There's nothing left to say anymore
When it's all the same
You can ask for it by name

Babble, Babble, Bitch, Bitch
Rebel, Rebel, Party, Party
Sex, sex, sex, and don't forget the violence
Blah, blah, blah
Got your lovey-dovey sad and lonely
Stick your stupid slogan in
Everybody sing along
Babble, Babble, Bitch, Bitch
Rebel, Rebel, Party, Party
Sex, sex, sex, and don't forget the violence
Blah, blah, blah
Got your lovey-dovey sad and lonely
Stick your stupid slogan in
Everybody sing

Are you motherfuckers ready for the new shit?
Stand up and admit, tomorrow's never coming
This is the new shit
Stand up and admit
Do we get it? NO!
Do we want it? YEAH!
This is the new shit
Stand up and admit

Babble, Babble, Bitch, Bitch
Rebel, Rebel, Party, Party
Sex, sex, sex, and don't forget the violence
Blah, blah, blah
Got your lovey-dovey sad and lonely
Stick your stupid slogan in
Everybody sing along
Everything has been said before
There's nothing left to say anymore
When it's all the same
You can ask for it by name

Are you motherfuckers ready for the new shit?
Stand up and admit, tomorrow's never coming
This is the new shit
Stand up and admit
Do we get it? NO!
Do we want it? YEAH!
This is the new shit
Stand up and admit

Now it's you-know-who
I got the you-know-what
I stick you-know-where
You know why, you don't care
Now it's you-know-who
I got the you-know-what
I stick you-know-where
You know why, you don't care
Now it's you-know-who
I got the you-know-what
I stick you-know-where
You know why, you don't care
Now it's you-know-who
I got the you-know-what
I stick it you-know-where
You know why, you don't care

Babble, Babble, Bitch, Bitch
Rebel, Rebel, Party, Party
Sex, sex, sex, and don't forget the violence
Blah, blah, blah
Got your lovey-dovey sad and lonely
Stick your stupid slogan in
Everybody sing

Are you motherfuckers ready for the new shit?
Stand up and admit it, tomorrow's never coming
This is the new shit
Stand up and admit
Do we get it? NO!
Do we want it? YEAH!
This is the new shit
Stand up and admit

Let us
We're entertaining you
Let us
We're entertaining you
Let us
We're entertaining you
Let us
We're entertaining you
Let us
We're entertaining you


3.mOBSCENE

We are the things and shapes to come
Your freedom's not free of dumb
This depression is great
The defamation age
They'll know my name
Waltz into scum, and base a marriage of the pain

bang-we want it
bang-we want it
bang,bang,bang,bang,bang

You came to see the mobscene
I know it isn't your scene
It's better than a sex scene
And it's so fucking obscene
Obscene, yeah

You want commitment
Put on your best suit
Get your arms around me
Now we're going down,down,down
You want commitment
Put on your best suit
Get your arms around me
Now we're going down,down,down

Be, be obscene
Be obscene, baby
Not heard

We take the love
Open your eyes
And watch the world end
We have our places,
But we have no friends
They told us this is not good
But we know it's great
We're top for fucked up drugs
...take our place

bang-we want it
bang-we want it
bang,bang,bang,bang,bang

You came to see the mobscene
I know it isn't your scene
It's better than a sex scene
And it's so fucking obscene
Obscene, yeah

You want commitment
Put on your best suit
Get your arms around me
Now we're going down,down,down
You want commitment
Put on your best suit
Get your arms around me
Now we're going down,down,down

Be, be obscene
Be obscene, baby
Not heard
Be obscene
Be, be obscene
Be obscene, baby
Not heard

You came to see the mobscene
I know it isn't your scene
It's better than a sex scene
And it's so fucking obscene
Obscene, yeah

You want commitment
Put on your best suit
Get your arms around me
Now we're going down,down,down
You want commitment
Put on your best suit
Get your arms around me
Now we're going down,down,down

Ladies and Gentlemen Please Repeat:
Be Obscene, be, be obscene

Be, be obscene
Be obscene, baby
Not heard
Be obscene
Be, be obscene
Be obscene, baby
Not heard

bang,bang,bang,bang,bang


4.Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag
Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

All the goose step girlies with the cursive faces
We know it's all braile beneath their skirts
A bulletproof biz-op and swing heil
I don't really care what gentlemen prefer

Say all you pindown girls with bonafied ballers
So manically depressed and manically dressed
We got a venus not in furs but in uniforms
If you're not dancing, then you're dead

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag
Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

All the thug rock kids are playing
All the punk got angels saying
Tell all the rest of them we don't even know

All the thug rock kids are playing
All the punk got angels saying
Tell all the rest of them we don't even know

GO! GO! GO! Doppelgangers!
You're one of us! You're one of us!

GO! GO! GO!
Throw your cheek, doppelgangers
You're one of us!

Trouble now junkies ain't silver tongued
Marching down the stairway to substance
Cocaingels and asses give me opium masses
Tell your church-born preachers we'll fill up your glasses

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

All the thug rock kids are playing
All the punk got angels saying
Tell all the rest of them we don't even know

All the thug rock kids are playing
All the punk got angels saying
Tell all the rest of them we don't even know

GO! GO! GO! Doppelgangers!
You're one of us! You're one of us!

GO! GO! GO!
Throw your cheek, doppelgangers
You're one of us!

You're one of us!
You're one of us!

GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!

And all the thug rock kids GO!
And all the punk got angels GO!
You're one of us now
You're one of us, so GO! GO! GO!

And all the thug rock kids GO!
And all the punk got angels GO!
You're one of us now
You're one of us, so GO! GO! GO!

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

Doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag
Got my grotesque burlesque drag

You're one of us!


5.Use Your Fist And Not Your Mouth

Come on, come on!
Come on, come on!

I am overgrounded, outselling it
Since God thinks I don't exist
The beatings happen perminent
This is not blue collar white corrective politics
I'm on an hate, american style, kick

This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(Come on, come on! Come on, come on!)
This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(come on, come on! Come on, come on!)

I'm on a campaign for pain
And when I get elected
I'll wipe the white off your house
The smile off your face

This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(Come on, come on! Come on, come on!)
This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(come on, come on! Come on, come on!)

I woke up today and wished for tomorrow
I don't want to be like anyone else
I woke up today and wished for tomorrow
I don't want even be myself

I said no, this isn't your song
We can't all get along
It's too hard to hold hands when your hands are fists
My hate pop won't ever stop
I'm fucking glad we're different
This is my hate american style
hit

Don't break it
Don't sing it
Use your fist and not your mouth

This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(Come on, come on! Come on, come on!)
This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(come on, come on! Come on, come on!)

This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(Come on, come on! Come on, come on!)
This is the black collar song
Put it in your middle finger and sing along
Use your fist and not your mouth
(come on, come on! Come on, come on!)

I woke up today and wished for tomorrow
I don't want to be like anyone else
I woke up today and wished for tomorrow
I don't want even be myself


6.The Golden Age Of Grotesque

All our monkeys have monkeys
We drive them down across town in Jaguar limousines
We're not fantastic motherfuckers, but we play them on TV
It's a dirty world Reich, say what you like
It's a dirty world Reich, say what you like

We're the lower Gloominati, and we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the Golden Age of Grotesque

We're the lower Gloominati, and we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the Golden Age of Grotesque

The devils are girls with Van Goghs missing ears
You say what you want but filth is all that they hear
I've got the jigger to make all you bigger
Ladies und gentlemen
So drop your piss roommate, and make sure you're not late
You tramps and lunatics
It's a trick that's gonna make you click

We're the lower Gloominati, and we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the Golden Age of Grotesque

We're the lower Gloominati, and we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the Golden Age of Grotesque

It's a dirty world Reich, say what you like
It's a dirty world Reich, say what you like

So up* tries rowdy rowdy honey finger goodbye dolls
Hells are boppin', open your third nostril
Put on your black face, and your god is gone

We're the lower Gloominati, and we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the Golden Age of Grotesque

We're the lower Gloominati, and we aim to depress
The scabaret sacrilegends
This is the Golden Age of Grotesque

We sing la la, la la, la la lah
We sing la la, la la, lah
La la, la la, la la, lah
We sing la la, la la, la la lah


7.s AINT

I don't care if your world is ending today
Because I wasn't invited to it anyway
You said I tasted famous so I drew you a heart
But now I'm not an artist, I'm a fucking work of art

I got an F and a C, and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like u

You wanted perfect, you got your perfect
Now I'm too perfect for someone like you
I was a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
But you'll never be as perfect whatever you do

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I am bone top, a deathset, on a mop stick
You infected me to diamonds, I took all your shit
Your sell-by-date expired so you had to be sold
I'm a suffer-genius and then a sex symbol

You wanted perfect, you got your perfect
Now I'm too perfect for someone like you
I was a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
But you'll never be as perfect whatever you do

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Ah-ah, Ah-ah

I got an F and a C, and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is u

I got an F and a C, and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like u

I got an F and a C, and I got a K too
And the only thing that's missing is a bitch like u

I am the penny in the ghetto with a snow white smile
Super ego-bitch, I've been evil a while

I am a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
Super ego-bitch, I've been evil a while

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't

What's my name? What's my name?
Ah-ah, Ah-ah
Hold the S because I am an ain't


8.Ka-Boom Ka-Boom

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom

We're a death marching band, peter pan off the wagon
Entertain but never trust anyone sober
What tastes less but tastes good, my stop hats top hating
Unsafe cheerleaders pour poms in pipe the bombs

I won't do it with you, I'll do it to you
I hope this hook gets caught in your mouth
I won't do it with you, I'll do it to you
Don't say no, just say now

I like a big car cause I'm a big star
I'll make a big rock and roll hit
I'd like to love you but my heart is a sore
I am, I am, I am so yours

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
I'd like to la-la-la-la love you

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
I'd like to la-la-la-la love you

I'm the leader of the club, and I've shrugged off my mouse ears
We fly no-class Dumbo jets, and drive hardcore-o-vettes
We fight war with drugs, and our sex always formal
We wear lawsuits when we get high, high, high

I won't do it with you, I'll do it to you
I hope this hook gets caught in your mouth
I won't do it with you, I'll do it to you
Don't say no, just say now

I like a big car cause I'm a big star
I'll make a big rock and roll hit
I'd like to love you but my heart is a sore
I am, I am, I am so yours

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
I'd like to la-la-la-la love you

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
I'd like to la-la-la-la love you

Inhale exhale, lets all hail
It's a depraved new world
Inhale exhale, lets all hail
It's a depraved new world
I like a big car cause I'm a big star
I'll make a big rock and roll hit
I'd like to love you but my heart is a sore
I am, I am, I am so yours

I am a big car, and I'm a strip bar
Call it fake, I call it as good as it gets
Nothing in this world is real
Except you are for me, and I am so yours

Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom
Ka-Boom, Ka-Boom


9.Slutgarden

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside
But when I get inside I'll just want to get out
I'm your first and last deposit through sickness and in hell
I'll never you promise you a garden, you'll just water me down

I can't believe that you are for real
I don't care as long as you're mine

When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'
When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'

I'm unsafe
I'm unsafe
I won't regret
So I memorize the words to the porno movies
It's the only thing I want to believe
I memorize the words to the porno movies
This is a new religion to me
I'm a VCR funeral, a definite waste
My smile's a chainlink fence, that I have put up
I love the enemy, my love is the enemy
They say they don't want fame
But they get famous when we fuck

When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'
When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'

I'm unsafe
I'm unsafe
I won't regret
So I memorize the words to the porno movies
It's the only thing I want to believe
I memorize the words to the porno movies
This is a new religion to me

I never believed the devil was real
But God couldn't make someone filthy as you

When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'
When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'
When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'
When I said 'we' you know I meant 'me'
And when I said 'sweet' I meant 'dirty'

You are the church, and I am the steeple
When we fuck, we are all God's people
You are the church, and I am the steeple
When we fuck, we are all God's people


10.Spade

The beauty spot was borrowed
Now my sweet love rusts tomorrow
On my confession that is waiting to be heard

Run your empty rain down on me
Whisper your death beats so softly
Bend your knees,the altar of my ego

You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins
You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins

All my lilies' mouths are open, like to begging for dope and
hoping
But their pedal gently can kick, you won't be back

All the timing that is sorrow of all the faces I've acquired
We secure the shadow here, the sun fills face

You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins
You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins

And we said 'til we die
And we said 'til we die

You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins
You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins

You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins
You drained my heart, and made a spade
There's still traces of me in your veins

And we said 'til we die
And we said 'til we die


11.Para-noir

I'd fuck you for your money
I'd fuck you to control you
I'd fuck you so someday I can have half of everything you own
I'd fuck you to fuck you over
I'd fuck you until I find someone better
Then fuck you in secret
I'd fuck you because I can't remember if I'd already fucked you
before
I'd fuck you out of boredom
I'd fuck you because I can't feel anything anyways
I'd fuck you to make the pain go away

Fuck you because I loved you
Fuck you for loving it, too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Fuck you because I loved you
Fuck you for loving it, too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do

I'd fuck you so I could feel something instead of nothing at all
I'd fuck you because you are beautiful
I'd fuck you because you are my nigger
I'd fuck you because I am your whore
I'd fuck you because you are a whore
I'd fuck you for fun
I'd fuck you for fun
I'd fuck you because I can't
I'd fuck you so I have a place to stay
I'd fuck you so you will protect me
Fuck you because I loved you
Fuck you for loving it, too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Fuck you because I loved you
Fuck you for loving it, too
I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do

I don't need a reason to hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do
Hate you the way I do


12.The Bright Young Things

We'll be the worms in your apple pie.
Fake abuse for our biles blacken our own eyes.
Grass isn't greener on the other side
We'll set it on fire, and we have no reason why

Set fashion, not follow
Spitfantry all not swallow
Set fashion, not follow
Spitfantry all not swallow

You know that I don't mind being everything that's bad
You know that I don't mind being everything that's bad

We know who we are and what we wanna say
And we don't care who's listening
We don't rebel to sell, it just suits us well
We're the bright young things

Got my villain necktie, and I'm alph hi-fi*
So sharp, I'm bleedin' from my Judas hole
Arch Dandy, no good to get a metaphor crash
Formal sponsor with the groan box in the meat show

Set fashion, not follow
Spitfantry all not swallow
Set fashion, not follow
Spitfantry all not swallow

You know that I don't mind being everything that's bad
You know that I don't mind being everything that's bad

We know who we are and what we wanna say
And we don't care who's listening
We don't rebel to sell, it just suits us well
We're the bright young things

Crashing the ether, we got the lighter stereotype
Even neophytes deep seed your pro-life*
We don't need to move a single parabol*
We're so beautiful and damned
life

Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no push
Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no push
Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no push
Perpetual rebellion with absolutely no push

Motherfucker, remember what you used to be?
Somebody that could fucking impress me

We know who we are and what we wanna say
And we don't care who's listening
We don't rebel to sell, it just suits us well
We're the bright young things

We know who we are and what we wanna say
And we don't care who's listening
We don't rebel to sell, it just suits us well
We're the bright young things

You know that I don't mind being everything that's bad
You know that I don't mind being everything that's bad


13.Better Of Two Evils

Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
I am something you can never be
Hey!

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Hold a prayerful smile for the picture
Motherfuckers never liked me then
And they sure won't like me now
Try to drag me down in your cliche
You fake your picture, fake your face
So I find all my pleasure in your misery, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'll step on you on my way up
I'll step on you on my way down
I'll step on you on my way up
I'll step on you on my way down

Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
But I am something that you'll never be
Hey!
Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
But I am something that you'll never be
Hey!

I'll be your scapegoat
I'll be your savior
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah

I want to hang all you cattle with your velvet rope
Motherfuckers step up and get into an orderly line
I'll show you how to make a muscle
Takes the strength to
It doesn't spit on all you paparazzi Nazis, yeah

Yeah yeah yeah

I'll step on you on my way up
I'll fucking step on you on my way down

Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
But I am something that you'll never be
Hey!
Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
But I am something that you'll never be
Hey!

I'll be your scapegoat
I'll be your savior
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Don't try to lead me to temptation
Don't try to lead me to temptation
Don't try to lead me to temptation
I made a living, and I already know the way
Hey!

Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
But I am something that you'll never be
Hey!
Haters call me bitch
Call me faggot
Call me whiney
But I am something that you'll never be
Hey!

I'll be your scapegoat
I'll be your savior

I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I'm the better of two evils
Yeah, yeah, yeah


14.Vodevil

I wake up everyday, the wrong side of the bed
I won't lay down on the floor like I'm the whore in your head
Call me a failure, pretender, sex offender, infector
Say I killed all my friends, and I deserve to be dead

Kiss, baby, kiss
Bang, baby bang
Suckm baby, suck
It's Vodevil
Kiss, baby, kiss
Bang, baby bang
Suck, baby, suck
It's Vodevil

This isn't music, and we're not a band
We're five middle fingers on a motherfucking hand
This isn't music, and we're not a band
We're five middle fingers on a motherfucking hand

I won't pull out, I just came
I want all of the blame
Your love is too faithless
No concept of pain, no right to complain
All you fagazine scenes blackball me
DJ yourself away
Turn your back, it will be easier to stab

Kiss, baby, kiss
Bang, baby bang
Suckm baby, suck
It's Vodevil
Kiss, baby, kiss
Bang, baby bang
Suck, baby, suck
It's Vodevil

This isn't music, and we're not a band
We're five middle fingers on a motherfucking hand
This isn't music, and we're not a band
We're five middle fingers on a motherfucking hand

DDTRD violent hate crime
Total requested dead
It's version for this downloadable suicide
The only ones left standing are the ones not demanding
This isn't a show, this is my fucking life
I'm not ashamed, you're entertained
But I'm not a puppet
I am a grenade
I'm not ashamed, you're entertained
But I'm not a puppet
I am a grenade

Kiss, baby, kiss
Bang, baby bang
Suckm baby, suck
It's Vodevil
Kiss, baby, kiss
Bang, baby bang
Suck, baby, suck
It's Vodevil

This isn't music, and we're not a band
We're five middle fingers on a motherfucking hand
This isn't music, and we're not a band
We're five middle fingers on a motherfucking hand


15.Obsequy(The Death Of Art)

The ancient pharoahs were not too bright they say,
But they made one contribution that I live by to this day,
It's the food pyramid,
And its approved the USDA

Oh grains of the foundation,
So please take my advice,
Of five to eleven servings of bread, cereal or rice,
Three to five of vegetables,
And four fruits is best,
Their antioxidensty fiber help you to digest,
Three servings of yogurt, milk and cheese,
Will help your bones and subsidize the cattle industry

A body needs to grow,
And grow and take regimes,
Why meat can be a tasty treat,
Like fish or even beans

And when you eat your sweets,
Make sure you try,
To limit your servings,
Or you'll...

DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody!

My body is a pyramid that's made of healthy foods,
So do what we say,
(Yeah!)
Eat right every day,
(Food!),
I..... love...... you

Buy American!


16.Tainted Love

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

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 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'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

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...