Soft Cell - Tainted Love (VO Gloria Jones + Soft Cell, Marilyn Manson & La Unión)

This is my favourite song of soft cell it's called tainted love.



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 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

Once I ran to you
now I'll run from you
. . .

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 - tainted love

What a big hit this was! But it was not an original song by Soft Cell, but a cover of a lost 1964 song sung by Gloria Jones. This is the song but there is not an original video of it:

Gloria Jones- Tainted Love (1964)




But there was more covers of this song. The most popular one after Soft Cell's was Marilyn Manson's:

Marilyn Manson- Tainted love (2001)





And it has also been covered in Spanish by La Unión:

La Unión- Falso amor