Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most) - Soft Cell

You’re time-wasting again

Biting your nails like you were sixteen

Putting up your little walls

When emotion’s around

Leave your little heart

In the lost and found

Your friends would die laughing

If they saw you this way

Even though they cry the same tears every day

Where was your heart

When you needed it most?

Hand in hand with your innocence

Gave up the ghost

But it doesn’t do to tell

You’re at your best

When you’re living hell

Just put on your hard face

You know you do that so well

Thank god you wore

Your waterproof make-up today

And who gives a damn about him anyway?

To him you’re a body

And to hell with the mind

But you get the same stick from his type all the time

Just a couple of drinks

And they’ve got you tonight

And you know the sad thing

Is that they’re often right

Where was your heart

When you needed it most?

Hand in hand with your innocence

Gave up the ghost

They take hold of your heart

And they spit it right out

Make a show of their conquest

When their friends are about

Your ego deflated

You gave up the fight

And became the good-time-had-by-all-every-night

And where was your heart

When you needed it most?

Hand in hand with your innocence

Gave up the ghost

No comfort of beds

Or the softness of sheets

Just the back of a car

Sprawled across the back seats

And he’ll just not give up

And he’s messed up your head

A dish in the disco

But a pig in the bed

So you build up a false love affair anyway

Photocopy soap opera stories all day

Where it all ends up fine

And it all ends in church

And the girl looks like you

And she never really gets hurt

And where was your heart

When you needed it most?

Hand in hand with your innocence

Gave up the ghost