TAINTED LOVE by Sof Cell

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

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 living

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

Once I ran to you

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 living

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

Tainted love

(Fade)

Written by Ed Cobb.
The single peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982.