What does the phrase “Tainted Love” mean?

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• Urban Dictionary offers a number of definitions of tainted love:

  a) love you have for a person that is so deep and feels like it should last forever, but it can’t for some complicated, unfair reason. So when you have only a certain amount time left with the person you love, you know that it is tainted love. because although you would risk your life for them and think of them all the time (even in your dreams), you can’t be with them forever.

  b) a song composed by Ed Cobb, formerly of The Four Preps. It was originally recorded in 1964 by Gloria Jones and attained worldwide fame after being covered by Soft Cell. It has since been covered by numerous other groups, including Marilyn Manson, 50 Cent and The Cure;

  c) something you get from a sick ᴘʀosтιтuтe;

• That is the title of an 80’s song by Soft Cell. It’ll make sense when you read the full lyrics.

  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

  (chorus)

  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 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

  (chorus…)

  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 (x2)

  Touch me baby, tainted love (x2)

  Tainted love (x3)

• Tainted means: corrupt, touched by rot or decay. In the song they are basically saying that the love in the relationship is corrupted or messed up. But “messed up love” doesn’t really have the same ring to it.

• The Bible has had it right for millenniums. “A live dog is better off than a dead lion. For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.” (Ecclesiastes 9:4, 5) Does that mean there is absolutely no hope for the dead? Jesus Christ preach about resurrection to life on a restored paradise earth. His Jewish follower Martha, whose brother, Lazarus, had just died, believed in the resurrection, for she said of Lazarus: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:24) To this, Jesus answered: “I am the resurrection and the life. He that exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life; and everyone that is living and exercises faith in me will never die at all. Do you believe this?” (John 11:25, 26) Earlier, he had said: “Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who did good things to a resurrection of life, those who practiced vile things to a resurrection of judgment.” John 5:28, 29; Luke 23:43. As you can see there will be a resurrection of both the righteous. and the unrighteous. Please do further research in you Bible to get a better understanding.

• i’M MISPLACING THINGS ALL THE TIME!

  “TAINTED LOVE”= IT’S NO LONGER PURE OR FRESH !!! i LOVEE THAT SONG

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