Where Was Your Heart
Soft Cell Lyrics

You're time-wasting again
You're just aimlessly killing time

Biting your nails like you were sixteen
You're anxious and nervous, like a teenager

Putting up your little walls
You're shutting yourself off emotionally

When emotion's around
When feelings are involved

Leave your little heart
You've lost your sense of love and vulnerability

In the lost and found
It's nowhere to be found

Your friends would die laughing
Your friends would find it hilarious

If they saw you this way
If they saw how you're acting

Even though they cry the same tears every day
They're in the same emotional state

Where was your heart
Where were your feelings

When you needed it most?
When you were most vulnerable and needed emotional support?

Hand in hand with your innocence
Your innocence and purity went hand-in-hand with your feelings

Gave up the ghost
It's gone now and can't be found

But it doesn't do to tell
It's not helpful to say anything

You're at your best
You function optimally

When you're living hell
When you're in a bad place

Just put on your hard face
Just pretend to be tough

You know you do that so well
You're really good at hiding your emotions

Thank god you wore
Thankfully, you wore

Your waterproof make-up today
Your makeup won't smudge if you cry

And who gives a damn about him anyway?
Who cares about him at all?

To him you're a body
To him, you're just a physical object

And to hell with the mind
He doesn't care about your thoughts or feelings

But you get the same stick from his type all the time
But men like him treat you the same way

Just a couple of drinks
Just a few drinks

And they've got you tonight
And they'll take advantage of you tonight

And you know the sad thing
And the unfortunate thing is

Is that they're often right
Is that they're often correct in their assumptions

They take hold of your heart
They deceive you emotionally

And they spit it right out
And they discard your emotions without care

Make a show of their conquest
They brag about their sexual conquests

When their friends are about
When they're around their friends

Your ego deflated
Your pride and self-esteem are diminished

You gave up the fight
You stopped resisting their advances

And became the good-time-had-by-all-every-night
You became someone they used for a good time

No comfort of beds
No comfort of a bed

Or the softness of sheets
Or the soft linen of a bed

Just the back of a car
Just the back seat of a car

Sprawled across the back seats
Laying across the back seat

And he'll just not give up
And he will not stop pursuing you

And he's messed up your head
And he's harmed you emotionally

A dish in the disco
A desirable person in a club

But a pig in the bed
But someone who treats you poorly in private

So you build up a false love affair anyway
So you create an imaginary love story

Photocopy soap opera stories all day
You spend all day copying love stories from soap operas

Where it all ends up fine
Where everything works out in the end

And it all ends in church
And their love story ends in a wedding

And the girl looks like you
And the girl in the story resembles you

And she never really gets hurt
And she never experiences emotional pain

Where was your heart
Where were your feelings

When you needed it most?
When you were most vulnerable and needed emotional support?

Hand in hand with your innocence
Your innocence and purity went hand-in-hand with your feelings

Gave up the ghost
It's gone now and can't be found