Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Soft Cell
Performer
Marc Almond
Vocals
David James Ball
Synthesizer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Marc Almond
Composer
Dave Ball
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Philip Larsen
Engineer
Nathan Cooper
Engineer
Chris Smith
Engineer
David James Ball
Producer
Lyrics
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
Of being sick and tired
Of being used and abused
If you're gonna enter into the kingdom of God
You're gonna enter in God's way
Oh
Another day, another life
Another day, another life
Of existence
Fear, threat and filth
Tender in hate
Slug and grab
Trap and take away
Another track
Meat rack and ruin
Boarded up and beaten up
Gangs roaming the streets
Have no respect for a life
A limb, a love
Whose love are you anyway?
And I tell you tonight
Anyway
Mother smiles, narrow eyes
Drink up your poison
Like a good little girl
Can't have your cake
And beat it, you know
I'm sick of seeing you bruised, a burn out
(That's right, that's right, that's right)
Ugly and low
I'm sick and tired
Of being sick and tired
Of being sick and tired
(Come on, come on, come on)
Of being used and abused
That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right
(It feels wide open)
That's right, that's right, oh, that's right
Of being used and abused
(Wash me in your precious blood)
(They gotta have that loud, loud music)
Ah, pushing through the pavement sprawl
Round the late night supermarket
Dirtlocked lady
Hits you in the chest
When you won't give her money
Mr. Barefoot
All the year round
Please don't breathe on me
Oh and hi, there
Zizi Jean nightmare, ha
Still sticky from you
(Start to hear voices)
Still sticky from me
Still sticky from you
Still sticky from me
(Why haven't you cried?)
Smack kerpow into cold Greaseburger Prince
(Why haven't you shared?)
Call me chico, chico from Puerto Rico
(I love you and the burden of life)
Guilty of another cold handed sperm murder
(I love your joy)
Forever the crunch of makeup under foot
Where will you take me
When this is all over?
Somewhere where I don't have to
Shiver in shadows
I'm so sick and tired
Of being sick and tired
Of being sick and tired
Of being sick and tired
(We don't tell your pimp to get yourself a job)
I'm so sick and tired
(Sick and tired)
Of being used and abused
(Sick and tired)
(Of being used and abused)
Floating in the ash
Of the coffee at the Coffee Pot café
That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right, that's right
That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right
I'm throwing up on an over-diet
Of slob culture
Overdose and out
I'm scared for you
For no, for me, for your
No, for me
OK, I, I got so tired of
Reading about the anguish of being
That I ended up being without
And where will you take me?
Where will you take me?
Away from this hell to be
Away from this hell to be
Or not to be
Or hell to be
Pull up the vacancy sign in your eyes
And I've seen it and I don't like it
I've seen it and I don't like it
I'm so sick and tired, I'm so sick and tired
Of being used and abused
Uh-huh
Hey, is this the last night in Sodom?
(Eat, sleep, I eat, sleep)
That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right
Oh, when will you take me
Away from this hell?
To be or not to be
(Maybe today)
Or not to be
(In a life of existance)
No, I've seen it and I don't like it
I've seen it and I don't like it
(His name is Jesus)
I've seen it and I don't like it
(You'll never know love)
(Until you have known the love of God)
I've seen it and I don't like it
(Study life)
Oh, waste
All this waste
Worthless waste
Worthless waste
(I cried, but they never shed a tear)
Oh, Jesus, oh, Jesus
(For Jesus Christ when he died on the cross)
Ah, come on
(And they drove a spike in his side)
Ah, come on
Ah, come on, come on, come on, come on
(And hammered a crown of thorns on his head)
Come on, come on, come on, come on
Jesus
Ah
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on
Come on, come on, come on, come on
That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right
That's right
Written by: Dave Ball, Marc Almond

