As I lie awake in the morning   Just killing time   I can feel the pain and the torment   Building up inside my mind   Have to get it under the counter   Stop myself from going blind   An excess is what I'm after   Nothing less will satisfy   So I walk the streets   And I search beneath   The cloak of decency that hides   All that I need   On which I feed   Better give me   Hard Core   And so the urge returns again   Hard Core   Only thing to ease the pain   Lipsmacking magazine when you're younger   Hidden in my desk at school   Big appetite increases the hunger   Now I need it more and more   Gimme little something to take until daybreak   Or I will go insane   It's building in me, need relief   You better give me   Hard Core   Speak to me of things I like   Hard Core   Nothing less will satisfy   Oh they lie to me   So it's time to be on my way   Speak of love but say   We are way ahead of this place   So so - so frustrated   Never naked - never betrayed   So so - so frustrated   Never naked - never betrayed   Take it to the limit   I admit it you know   Yes I couldn't give a damn   Oh is it any wonder   That I hunger   Just can't give me   Hard core   Seeping back into my brain   Hard core   The only thing to ease my pain   Hard core   Get it while you can   Experience it every day   Hard core   You want it bad you better pay   Fax phone line just wanna flick through   Anytime cataloguing while I kinda change   I'm gonna order mine this time and   I'm gonna watch you viewing behind a mirror   Looking I'm out there ... do it   Hard core   Feel the need to return again   Hard core   Nothing less will ease the pain   Hard core   Hard core     [Written and Arranged Glenn Tipton (c 1996 EMI Songs Ltd., ASCAP)]