Defeated

Two main versions:

* "1980 Version" (September 1980) - Only Dreaming (2:06), Stained Glass Soma Fountains (2:04)

Both mixes seem identical: short fade in of all the keyboard noises, vocals in the middle, then short fade out of keyboards at the end.

Instruments: Choppy keyboard chord melody, with tremolo that stops at the end; sequenced keyboard playing repeated blips; two vocal tracks with lots of echo; quiet synth white noise that gradually builds.

* "1981 Version" (1981) - Chemical Playschool Volume 1 (2:34), Kleine Krieg (2:37), Legendary Pink Box (2:30).

All mixes fade in with a swelling keyboard chord and a few bell sounds before the vocals start. This version is in a different key. All mixes fade into a thirty-second sound collage of crowd noises and bell sounds that eventually fade out.

Called "(Still) Defeated" on the Legendary Pink Box.

Instruments: Choppy keyboard chord melody with tremolo; keyboard accents with occasional sample-and-hold and changing filters; single vocal track with occasional swelling echo; second vocal track that sometimes switches with the first; sequenced keyboard blips near the end.

What It's About:

Carrie reads a letter from her boyfriend and she's unhappy about what it says. Feeling trapped and defeated, she tries to poison herself at a cafe but manages to survive after getting her stomach pumped. A happy ending? No, because she's still just as "defeated" as she was before.

Lyrics (adapted from the Cloud-Zero archive):

Crazy Carrie pulled the blinds, and fed the lions, and read the lines
that skipped across the page and sends her dizzy, dozy,
does she care? Does he?

The answer's "no," it's always "no," There's no escape, no secret doors.
There's nowhere you can hide. No way. You're finished, fated,
just defeated. Defeated...

She stumbled through the cafe doors down on all fours to loud applause
ordered a meat and mandrax and a belladonna squash to quash the pain.

There's a difference at Madonna's that will carry you away.
And carried her away, it made her day, they pumped her dry, they wiped her eyes.
She just survived, and she can prove it with her bracelet.
At least the money wasn't wasted. Not wasted.

She's defeated, still defeated. Nowhere to hide.
Still defeated

Why you should care:

Because THEY did! Along with "Voices," this song keeps on popping up everywhere. They must really love it.