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 seems to go nowhere

          Harry sat on the edge of his bed.  He was thinking.  Thinking about Cho, and the way their relationship had been.

          "God, how could I have been so stupid to think she would actually like me?  She wanted Cedric. And I lost her Cedric. I was the last one who actually saw him alive."

I've lost my lights I toss and turn I can't sleep at night

Did she know that he still saw the way Cedric died, that Cedric still haunted his dreams?  Did she know that every time anyone said her name he'd see her tears streaming down her face?  Did she know how he even felt?

Once I ran to you, now I'll run from you this tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all

And the tears, what could be worse than the tears?  She cried all the time.  At the very mention of Cedric's name she would explode.  He used to want to be near her, but now he just felt guilt.

Tainted love. Tainted love

          All she wanted was a sufferer like herself.  All she had wanted was a companion in hell.  It wasn't about love, lust, like.  What ever you wanted to call it.  It was about loneliness, plain and simple.  She didn't know what being alone was like.

Now I know I've got to run away, I've got to get away
You don't really want any more from me to make things right
You need someone to hold you tight, you think love is to pray
But I'm sorry I don't pray that way.

But maybe Cho was just like any other person in the world.  She didn't want to be alone.

Maybe she prayed not to be alone.  Her and Cedric were in love, now Cedric was dead.

What does it matter to pray?  He had tried prayer, but no one was there to answer for God to him.  He wouldn't answer for God to any one else.

Once I ran to you, now I'll run from you this tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all

Maybe it was easier to avoid her in the halls.  Maybe it was easier to shove her into the back of his memories.  He didn't know.  He didn't care.  It was just his way of dealing- unhealthy or not.

Tainted love. Tainted love

Maybe she just wanted to guilt him.  Everyone needs someone to blame.  And he was the natural suspect, not like he didn't blame himself or anything.

Don't touch me, please; I cannot stand the way you tease. I love you though you hurt me so. Now I'm going to pack my things and go.

Well it was over.  His first attempt at a relationship.  Down from the grave where it came. 

Touch me baby, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love
Touch me baby, tainted love

It was selfish of him to ask anyways.  She didn't love him, and he didn't love her.  Did he even know what love was? He certainly hadn't been shown it very often.  He felt tears pique at his eyes.  Gods, how he envied Ron, Ginny, and Hermione.

Once I ran to you, now I'll run from you this tainted love you've given I give you all a boy could give you. Take my tears and that's not nearly all

He would give her his tears, those were the only things she'd ever given him.