Placebo - My Sweet Prince
Time: 1:45
Never thought I'd have to retire
Never thought I'd have to abstain
Never thought all this could back fire

say no; refrain from voting
Heard in 26 songs (13M+ combined views) — most famously in "My Sweet Prince" by Placebo.
Updated August 5, 2026
Time: 1:45
Never thought I'd have to retire
Never thought I'd have to abstain
Never thought all this could back fire

Time: 4:55
We can't maim a martian 'til you come (up my sleeves)
As I abstain from being and succumb (up my sleeves)
Don't feel none, I flog the remedy, up my sleeves (up my sleeves)

Time: 13:38
Here inside the walls of Troy, the gods weigh my fate
From this day do I abstain, to a memory of hate
To pay for all the blood that spilled, the many thousands I did kill

Time: 0:46
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Mercy, we abstain
Hope you're entertained

Time: 1:22
Round up the ambivalent, you mustn't sit in the shade
'Cause it's blasphemous for one to abstain from hate
We're all sisters and brothers

Time: 1:05
Half of you are eating
Half of you abstain!
Tear away your motive throw your goddess on the flame!

Time: 0:58
Is constantly rearranged, we are the verminous
In hate abstain
Cremating our former selves in a funeral blaze

Time: 1:48
When push comes to shove, you know it's a feign
You're better off if you choose to abstain
Your fear is your true grave

Time: 0:40
The boy's got brains
He just abstains
The boy's got a heart

Time: 0:23
I abstain!
Summon my pride? What pride lies behind blinkered eyes?

Time: 0:49
Maintain subtle advantage
Fighting hard to abstain and redress
Do you know your place

Time: 1:11
There's a trillion aliens cooler than you
You shouldn't abstain from rape just 'cause you think that I want you to
You shouldn't rape 'cause rape is a fucked up thing to do

Time: 2:16
See the remnants of the storm
See mutation I abstain
Hear creation cry in pain

Time: 1:29
Satisfying my urge, I will scourge, as I surge through her hallowed feminine domain
From her young body. I can't abstain
Lifeless she now lies, now untied I defile

Time: 0:31
Lost count of the plain chardonnays before the fourth or maybe the fifth
In future I need to abstain
If only id had a bit of discipline

Time: 0:59
I'm going to need you all to raise your voice
But if it doesn't sound like mine, please, abstain
Why don't you chop my tongue out

Time: 2:15
In panic you scream for your God
No way I'll ever abstain
Blood falls from the ceiling like rain

Time: 0:41
We talked about the drugs and we
Decided to abstain but still we
Locked ourselves inside and then

Time: 1:12
Spreading massive religion
"Sex and drugs, we abstain"
He thinks Christians are insane

Time: 1:11
This pain
You chose to abstain from truth
How do you come back from this?

Time: 0:36
I may be shy and not reply to your scathing review
But I'd rather subsist on venom, than abstain with you
Oh I'll be fine

Time: 2:41
We have ways of making you vote for us
Or at least of making you abstain
Perón has resigned from the army and this we avow

Time: 0:50
You try to avoid it
You try to abstain
But it relentlessly takes it's control

Time: 1:07
someone shoot me while my soul is clean
I don't think I'll last, my vow to abstain is obscene
Arch-Confraternity men to the fight

Time: 0:26
Though the voices I no longer hear speak
Heaven's to blame, so, on that I'll abstain
Best clean the church from my cracked fingernail

Time: 0:48
The thrill is an escape from my mind
Thinking about wanting to abstain
Staying sober is such a pain (pain)
