Last Chance

I adore Soft Cell, they're one of my favourite groups of all time. I refuse to use the word band.

One of my earliest memories of Top Of The Pops is Soft Cell performing. I don't know if I was in awe, perhaps I was too young, or just star struck, or amazed at seeing something I'd never seen before... Or was it the pure campery? I don't know, but I remember being amazed and stopping dead in my tracks as I passed the television.

So long ago now...

Their best album, in my humble opinion, is their last, Cruelty Without Beauty, and the best song on it is Last Chance:

In a city lost in time
Somewhere sordid and sublime
We met over a gin and lime
One rainy evening
Survivors clinging to the mast
Trying to make the moment last just
Two people way past their prime
And how it shows
So come over here For some romance
And dance with me Like it's the last dance
And come home with me
Won't you come home with me?
This is our last chance for love
You thought you looked like Carol White
Bleached hair piled upon your head but
You looked more like a lady of the night
Instead
In your see-through plastic mac
Homage to cheap sixties tack
You're
So far out you're on your way back in
Again
I've wasted too many chances
On small ads and Internet romances
So come home with me
Won't you come home with me?
This is our last chance for love
I toyed with a cigarette
Trying to look aloof and sexy
But I couldn't see for the smoke In my eyes
OK, I have a shaky limp and
Dress a little like a pimp but
After your drink I'll still look OK
In a good light
I had some dreams where did they all go?
Gone with my years
Nothing left to show
So come home with me
Won't you come home with me?
This is our last chance for love
Come home with me
Won't you come home with me?
This is our last chance
For romance
Our last chance
Come home with me
Won't you come home with me?
This is our last chance for love
This is our last chance
This is our last chance for love

One question - who is Carol White?