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Alas ‘The Hospital Song’ lets a most promising second side down badly. Creme’s deliberately struggling-for-breath narrator is having a lousy time in hospital, losing his dignity by wetting the bed and living only for the time when he can lose his consciousness again in the delight of the drugs they give him and where the only ‘revenge’ he can take out this time for his rotten treatment is filling up the bedpan next time the nurse has to lug it around the ward. The juxtaposition between this song and the last can’t be a mistake – this is another real ‘us’ and ‘me’ song, although it’s less successful this time around simply because the narrator never really does get his revenge: the hospital pump him so full of drugs he doesn’t notice their poor care, ‘delirious and apathetic’ as he is. There’s also a strange upbeat chorus of ‘I get off on what you give me darling’ which is pleasant enough but seems to have wandered in from another song altogether (is this a hallucination?) This is, though, a rare character on this album who ‘loses’ – he doesn’t get better but dies from a nasty sounding case of ‘plaster casting love’ (which may well be a joke about the groupie plaster casters who liked taking models of musicians’ genitalia). Whatever the faults of this as a song, however, the recording makes up for a few of them with some memorable electronic trickery at the beginning as some guitars burst slowly, wearily into life as if coming round from an operation and there are some really lovely chorus harmonies, arguably the first time we get to hear those distinctive four-part 10cc harmonies together on record in all their glory. If nothing else this song also sums up the sheer hopelessness and misery of being at the mercy of authority figures for effectively your life (a greater even authority figure than a prison warden and one we could meet at any time). Having stayed in Stafford Hospital before now – yes the one that’s making all the fuss on the news about poor care and needless deaths - I can only think that at least one member of 10cc must have been in the same ward as me.

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Nobody sends me birthday cards
Nobody brings me flowers
I'm just here for operations
I've been out for hours
When I come to I'll wet my bed
`Cos when I get mad I sink so low
As matron knows
I get off on what you give me, darling
I get off on what you give to me
Yeah, I get off on what you give me, darling
I get off on what you give to me
And when I go to that seedy ward
Up in the sky
You'll be waiting
With a hypodermic needle
And a graph
Here comes the dark
(I'm grateful for my anaesthetic)
Out goes the spark
(Delirious and apathetic)
When I come to
I'll wet my bed
And when I get well
I'll take revenge
I'll wreak my wrath
On all blood donors
And their sisters
Visiting time and flowers
When sister brings that bedpan round
I'll cry like April showers
I get off on what you give me, darling
I get off on what you give to me
Yeah, I get off on what you give me, darling
I get off on what you give to me
And when I go
I'll die of plaster casting love

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from 10cc [Changed, Cleaned​-​Up Version], track released July 1, 1973
Written-By – Kevin Godley, Lol Creme

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Tribute to 10cc Stockport, UK

This is a musical tribute to 10cc, both originals and remakes. Here is the story about the original line-up from the original band: 10cc are an English rock band founded in Stockport, England, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians – Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme. ... more

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