Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Sometimes
I feel I've got to run away
I've got to get away
From the pain
You drove into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
I think 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
Give you all a girl could give you
Take my tears
And thats not nearly all
Tainted love
Tainted love
Now I know I've got to run away
I've got to get away
You don't really want anymore 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
Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
Give you all a girl could give you
Take my tears
And thats not nearly all
Tainted love
Tainted love
Don't touch me please
I can not stand it when you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
But I'm going to pack my things and go
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love (Tainted love)
Tainted love (Tainted love)
Tainted love
Tainted love!
Baby, baby
Baby, don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
I've got this burning
Yearning, yearning
Feeling inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
And now that I surrender
So effortlessly
You will not want to leave
Ooh, you want to meet me
Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh there's a burning...
I feel I've got to run away
I've got to get away
From the pain
You drove into the heart of me
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
I think 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
Give you all a girl could give you
Take my tears
And thats not nearly all
Tainted love
Tainted love
Now I know I've got to run away
I've got to get away
You don't really want anymore 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
Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
Give you all a girl could give you
Take my tears
And thats not nearly all
Tainted love
Tainted love
Don't touch me please
I can not stand it when you tease
I love you though you hurt me so
But I'm going to pack my things and go
Tainted love (Oh)
Tainted love (Tainted love)
Tainted love (Tainted love)
Tainted love
Tainted love!
Baby, baby
Baby, don't leave me
Ooh, please don't leave me
All by myself
I've got this burning
Yearning, yearning
Feeling inside me
Ooh, deep inside me
And it hurts so bad
You came into my heart
So tenderly
With a burning love
That stings like a bee
And now that I surrender
So effortlessly
You will not want to leave
Ooh, you want to meet me
Baby, baby
Where did our love go?
Ooh there's a burning...
Lyrics submitted by rust3dxh3art
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See, i told you Marylin Manson fans! I wish the Diana Ross bit was erased it's stupid.
OH, WHAT THE FUCK.
-_-;
next, they'll be doing a remake of suicide solution..
and then i'll have to shoot myself in the face.
I hope you know Tainted Love wasn't originally done by Maryilin Maons either.. It was done by Soft Cell in the 80's.
No, it was written in 1964 by soul singer Gloria Jones. Soft Cell made it popular in the 1980's when they covered it.
Actually it was written by Ed Cobb. But Gloria Jones was the first to perform it.
seems the song has been a favorite to remake over the decades eh? its a good song i personally like soft cells take. i havnt heard golria jones's version but i'll try. but PCD did an ok job....i guess.
I dont like the song to be honest, Soft Cell's version was good, MArylin Manson just suck, fucking transvestite
Yes it could :) we should like make one lol.
Seriously though...Marylin Manson??? Hes so...so...
And no im not looking the word attractive, hes a stupid mediawhore, transvestite saying hes the friking anti-christ blah blah, he should be shot.
lmao...well its his fault for selling a cd like that, I mean yuck!! I dont like Marylin Manson at all. And hes not good looking either I had friend once and she was so besotted with MM I was like why? Hes eew and his music sucks as much as he does...ANd she never spoke to me again, oh well no loss eh.