my life, my pace

With all of the unpleasantness of trying to set up my qualifying exam, it’s only fitting that this week’s inspirational music song be for the grad student. The song for this week is: Soft Cell – Tainted Love or what I affectionately think of as Tainted Lab.

Here’s an excerpt:
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 experiments I do
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 lab you’ve given
I give you all a boy girl could give you
Take my tears and that’s not nearly all
Oh…tainted love lab
Tainted love lab

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